The Edge of the Big Snow is here. Itsy-bitsy snowflakes have gently floated through the air, by ones, for about 36 hours now. It's the kind of snow that you see in the air and think that it can't possibly stick, but it is gradually accumulating in spots, and as the ground continues to freeze it will accumulate faster. In the North we've seen people saying "Schools must not close." This is Virginia and I say schools must close. We can't have children in school buses on the road with Southern drivers in this. Not that most of the roads aren't clear, but Southern drivers panic when a snowflake hits a car window. So public-spirited Southerners stay home. Keep their children home, too.
Not that I'm not sitting here praying, "Please keep my lights on! Please keep my computer connected!" because I've lost enough computer time already in the past seven days. I need a glyphosate ban, for survival purposes, but I also want a federal law limiting all computer "updates" to the hour between 2 and 3 a.m. on the 29th of February.
Animals
England has had such a mild winter that these cabbageworms reportedly were active and growing outdoors, in the wild, in December and January.
Poetry
Norma Pain has written one for the front porch and one for the bathroom:
Photography
With jokes:
Racism, Gavin Newsom's
Even Newsom had no business saying anything that stupid...One of the weirdest things about California was that even after the massive three-day race riot in Watts, White Californians would still look at people with straight faces, sincerity in their blue eyes, and say, "We don't really have race problems because there are hardly any Black people in California." (And there were significant numbers of Black people in California. Only they used to be "redlined," not officially segregated but sort of quietly segregated, into different neighborhoods. And some of them even used to play along. At age five or six my brother said to another litle kid, a playmate he liked, "You look Black. Are you?" and the kid said with a straight face--I was there--"Oh no, they wouldn't let me live in this neighborhood if I was Black! Everybody knows that! I just play out in the sun all the time and never take a bath.") So there is a kind of mass delusion or something going on, but you have to read Newsom's very words.
Dyslexia is not a mental disorder, but stupidity is.
Whatever else they did the Bushes, father and son, wore dyslexia in a liberating way. Thousands of reading-avoiders and skid-talkers dared to speak in public, even about our brainquirk: "I'm dyslexic, like the President," I started explaining when I skid-talked. "I'm dyslexic, in a different way from the President," people who knew how to read but didn't like reading or do it well could say. Newsom is embarrassing us all over again.
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