War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Breezy and way-wet this early-evening Monday on California’s north coast — made an attempt to take the dogs for a walk/run this afternoon, first try at Little River Beach, and after sitting there in the car for awhile waiting for some respite, then when none came, a drive south to the Ma-le’l Dunes, where we…
(Illustration by Handoko Tjung, found here). Some drizzle and wind this Wednesday evening on California’s north coast — rain forecast for tonight, but sunshine on the morrow. Weather is the centerfold of our time, and a downer encapsulates the current narrative — from today’s Phys.org: A new study has revealed that the language used by…
(Illustration found here). Sundown Wednesday here on California’s north coast, clear, dying-gray skies, touched along the westward edges with a little bright tinge, a sense of approaching dark. Chilly, though, as it’s been since about noon-time today when the icy-north wind arrived — earlier was easy warm, was hoping it would stay that way, but…
(Illustration found here). A warm and bright Monday afternoon on California’s north coast. Despite temperatures only in the mid-50s around noon-time, the lack of any decent wind fostered a much-more-warmer feeling. Walking the dogs earlier out on Little River State Beach the air felt actually, ‘hot.’ Even if using that word too soon in the…
(Illustration: ‘The Blue Umbrella 1914,’ by Helen Hyde, found here). Just a bit above freezing this late-afternoon Monday on California’s north coast — and after a decent rainfall this morning, I took the dogs out to Samoa Beach, right-near that upside-down/half-buried in-the-sand red Chevy pick-up truck (see Lost Coast Outpost). And during our walk, we…
(Illustration: Salvador Dali’s ‘Soft Watch at the Moment of First Explosion,’ found here). The dark-gray sense of storm apprehension this early afternoon Friday on California’s north coast, supposedly a decent-rainfall storm starting today and lasting though Monday. Forecasts for big rain totals for inland, with freezing temperatures and snow. Reportedly, however, good sunshine Tuesday-thru-Thursday next…
(Illustration found here). Sunshine Monday here on California’s north coast and bright skies, though, tempered by a chilled breeze, tapered only by a wind block, maybe a house or building — I walked to Safeway for the first time this afternoon in like a shitload of days it feels like, but probably less than a…
(Illustration found here). Rainy and chilly this Sunday evening on California’s north coast — the environment of dreary. Our only home is self-destructing — our only outside is changing rapidly from livable to unlivable. Via today’s Time: President Donald Trump mocked climate change again on Sunday, just days after the Department of Defense released a…
(Illustration found here). As far as our environment goes, it’s getting way-close to the now-or-we’re-fucked point — the Guardian yesterday: The study found that if all fossil fuel infrastructure — power plants, factories, vehicles, ships and planes — from now on are replaced by zero-carbon alternatives at the end of their useful lives, there is a…
(Illustration above: M.C Escher’s ‘Scholastica,’ found here). As the work-week comes to a close this Friday evening, the natural momentum of our terrifying times-of-history doesn’t have weekends off, so the ruthless grind of weird shit will keep on trucking — an iconic phrase there, ‘keep on trucking,’ first poised in the jazz-music scene of the…
