Crystal-clear and cold in an alliterated early Friday here on California’s north coast — all is quiet.
We’re supposed to have sunshine and warm temperatures the next few days, and no rain for some time.

Woke up in a sad funk this morning. On occasion I start a day like this, especially if my kids enter my brain right away, and I start to feeling sorrow for all kinds of shit — first, of course, for myself, and eventually after some weeping, I feel sorry for every freakin’ person on this wretched planet.
Most people right now are asleep in this predawn darkness, and despite the evidence, all without a clue.

In the last worldwide wipe-out, not much sense of doom: “There isn’t all that much evidence of stress prior to the extinction,” Dr. Bowring said.

(Illustration: Pablo Picasso’s ‘The Frugal Meal’ found here).

Nowadays, however, there’s a shitload of ‘evidence of stress,’ but hard to adjust to a momentum pushing the world into a jam, and way-difficult to comprehend the end of life as we know it.
Some words to amplify from the Center for Biological Diversity:

Global warming presents the gravest threat to life on Earth in all of human history.
The planet is warming to a degree beyond what many species can handle, altering or eliminating habitat, reducing food sources, causing drought and other species-harming severe weather events, and even directly killing species that simply can’t stand the heat.
In fact, scientists predict that if we keep going along our current greenhouse gas emissions trajectory, climate change will cause more than a third of the Earth’s animal and plant species to face extinction by 2050 — and up to 70 percent by the end of the century.
Such a catastrophic loss would irreversibly diminish biodiversity, severely disrupt ecosystems, and cause immense hardship for human societies worldwide.

John Kerry blubbered out the ugly last weekend:

“When I think about the array of global climate – of global threats – think about this: terrorism, epidemics, poverty, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction – all challenges that know no borders – the reality is that climate change ranks right up there with every single one of them,” said Kerry.
“This is not opinion. This is about facts. This is about science. The science is unequivocal. And those who refuse to believe it are simply burying their heads in the sand.”

And about weeping too-early on a Friday.