Recent Reading and Viewing

I've been so busy and not blogging but here's a little of what I've read and watched lately.

This op/ed piece from the New York Times By Thomas Friedmancaptures my feeling about the times we live in now. His last column about Noah is also brilliant.

This one about junk maileveryone should read and stop their unwanted, forest killing junk mail. It really works! I now get almost no junk mail.

I loved Susan Ito's latest column on Literary Mama.

This weekend I also saw "Argonautika' which was truly brilliant (but closed today) and "Juno".

We baked many batches of cookies at our place and slept in.

Next week on to Anaheim and Disneyland AND I plan to read a novel.

hockey goes green

Oh my goodness! I just found out about this from an email newsletter from the David Suzuki Foundation. Check it out hockey players offset their emissions. Now that's cool!

weather

Here's a recent poem I wrote on the subject...

The Weather
Adult topic
of last resort,
it was not to be questioned
or moved by our actions
then-

when I was knee high to the world
ravished by its largeness
untarnished by hubris.

Summer’s scorch on skin
that vast,
comforting indifference
of blue sky
beneath my feet
when Up I swung

The drumhum rain
on the tin roof
while sleeping snug or scared

this at least seemed certain,
Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer

Now everyone agrees-
too much exhalation
causes disruption

I read the thread of ice
worn thin
while my fridge still whirs
and out my window
the continuing unblinking blue
behold