Compatible Creatures by Bruce Maulden
War, Politics, and Life
Early Thursday here on California’s north coast, and maybe a seasonal-change forewarned — a crisp, clarity in the air this morning, ocean sound-waves from the Pacific quickly/easily recognized, and seemingly awhile since the last time I’d heard that soothing, near-musical shoreline noise. Seemingly for weeks, we’ve been early-on each day, enveloped in thick, layered ground…
Although summer’s still warm on the backside, and it’s only early September, cold weather is closer than just-around-the-corner — last month, old reliable, the weather-worn Farmers’ Almanac predicted, “…frigid conditions, bitter conditions,” for this coming winter. They prognosticated a similar prognosis for 2013/14, and were very-much correct. Two words with only one season’s worth of common…
Fog-bound this early Tuesday on California’s north coast, but just a wee-bit to the east are huge chunks of deep-growth forests, dry and waterless, and in some places, on fire. A moist shoreline and a tinderbox interior. Countrywide, a variety of weather shit, though, tornadoes twisted across diverse locales — a four-minute one early yesterday…
Foggy and chilly this early Saturday on California’s north coast — an ordinary start to this three-day Labor Day weekend. But who’s counting? Always kind of moist here on the rim of the Pacific Ocean, but a few feet inland and heat takes a turn for the worse. In the dry-midst of a continuing drought,…
A huge, banner head at the top of HuffPost this afternoon quickly snapped at me — ‘Here…Human-caused…Already dangerous…Likely irreversible,’ and with that last word knew it had something to do with climate change. And sure enough, the latest draft of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as been leaked to the media, and like…
Sucking water out of parched land may not be the best move in an already-congested earthquake country — this afternoon, the Bay Area is apparently on the mend after Sunday’s 6.0 earthquake jarred the shit out of Napa, injured more than 100 people and tore-up some old buildings — at the estimated tune of $1…
Fog and quiet this way-early Monday on California’s north coast and modern life continues somewhat unabated. As the Napa Valley down south of us cleans itself up after a 6.0 earthquake yesterday morning — already estimated to have caused $1 billion in damages — there’s another forest fire to the east that could become another…
A way-ordinary, routine-acting morning-fog environment for here on California’s north coast, but just three/four hours south, Sunday came early with a bang for the graveyard shift: Erica Gregory, who was brewing coffee while working by herself at the 24-hour Shell gas station on Highway 29 in Vallejo, said items started to fly off the shelves…
Foggy and quiet this early Saturday on California’s north coast and the water war continues — it’s a conflict between us drinking H2O and not. The well-known and infamous drought has plagued the Western US for years, and in California the problem is going from bad to worse, to even worse still — and no…
Quiet and still this early Friday on California’s north coast, with the normal patchy fog and a slighty-chilled breeze for our late summer — weather up here is really consistent, and if it’s not, it will be in just a second. And the weekend is near-about on top of us. The news cycle — beyond…
