My Dear Children
Oct. 4th, 2025 01:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ljgeoffMy Dear Children,
We are having unusually warm weather for early autumn at the 46th parallel. Everyone I've talked to are overall happy to have dry, warm weather but to me it is eerie. I've been watching the scientists' blogs about Arctic ice, and they are saying that this year's melt has dropped the volume of arctic ice to about half of the 2000-2010 average. If the ice melt follows most biological processes, the average in the 2020s will be half the 2010s, and the 2030s will be half of that. Weather will become more and more strange. We know it, but most people simply don't pay attention to what is happening.
There are so many other things to pay attention to. I worry that our govenment will impose a draft, that the poor will become poorer and that societal violence will tip into rebellion. I worry about a possible US military coup. I worry that my family members will lose their jobs and lose their houses.
Today, I am working in Wisconsin, at a nursing home. Next week, I'll go up to Negaunee. Mike, Sam, and Luke are going to put new roof shingles on the Negaunee House, and then Mike and I are hoping to go out to the property, possibly camp overnight and take another walk around, to decide where we'll clear for the pole barn.
I really don't have much to report, my beloveds. Just that I am worried and feel helpless.
We are having unusually warm weather for early autumn at the 46th parallel. Everyone I've talked to are overall happy to have dry, warm weather but to me it is eerie. I've been watching the scientists' blogs about Arctic ice, and they are saying that this year's melt has dropped the volume of arctic ice to about half of the 2000-2010 average. If the ice melt follows most biological processes, the average in the 2020s will be half the 2010s, and the 2030s will be half of that. Weather will become more and more strange. We know it, but most people simply don't pay attention to what is happening.
There are so many other things to pay attention to. I worry that our govenment will impose a draft, that the poor will become poorer and that societal violence will tip into rebellion. I worry about a possible US military coup. I worry that my family members will lose their jobs and lose their houses.
Today, I am working in Wisconsin, at a nursing home. Next week, I'll go up to Negaunee. Mike, Sam, and Luke are going to put new roof shingles on the Negaunee House, and then Mike and I are hoping to go out to the property, possibly camp overnight and take another walk around, to decide where we'll clear for the pole barn.
I really don't have much to report, my beloveds. Just that I am worried and feel helpless.
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Date: 2025-10-05 08:12 pm (UTC)I hope the thought of your lovely property is a balm in these conditions.
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Date: 2025-10-05 08:43 pm (UTC)It is.