i get inundated by another natural disaster. man there were torrential rains here. this is from the next little town over: glen rock and the codorus creek. wouldn't have believed the codorus could do that, and i'm kind of pinched in by it on three sides. but they opened the roads pretty quick for the most part. all good here in new freedom, but wet basement and washed-out driveway.
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the fearsome crime wave continues here in new freedom, pa. theresa and rickard koller were arrested for trying to bust their own golden lab out the animal shelter.
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cb's got me thinking environmentalism. so i guess more criticism! i think that much, anyway, of the environmental movement, has a wrong view of ecosystems or what makes an ecosystem a good ecosystem. so it just can't be in terms of balance, equilibrium, sustainability, stability. there are no static ecosystems or ecosystems in equilibrium. so the ecosystem around my house (yes: it's waldenish! but with a wal-mart pretty close): it's filled to overflowing with the alterations of man. centuries of farming, e.g., structures in various stages of collapse and disappearance. obviously another alcoholic lived here before me: there are hundreds of whiskey bottles in piles all around the woods. there are more invasive than non-invasive species, insofar as i can do a census, and english ivy and sparrows are everywhere. but it is incredibly alive. there are myriads of insects of al kinds, vines growing luxuriantly over everything. a meadow surrounded by berry-briars, all kinds of trees from all over the world: chinese chestnuts for example. the poison ivy is extremely impressive, as if one plant had takn over the whole region. there are layers of birds, from hummers to little peepers, to bluejays, and ascending through kestrels, sharp-shinned and red-shouldered hawks, to turkey vultures. i means 'layers' literally. there are feral cats everywhere; i saw a black one just before dark tonight. also coyotes, deer, bobcats, foxes, squirrels, chipmunks, voles etc etc. the whole place is just deliriously alive. that is a good enough ecosystem for me, and i contribute to it by mowing, throwing my old mops back into the various middens that have sprouted up here over the decades, chainsawing, burning, gardening. i brought my cats and my axe. at any rate, i think that one might see climate change differently just by a full acknowledgement that ecosystems are dynamic, we participants. this would be my standard: is it vital? is it full of life? then you know it doesn't need us to fantasize a return to some never-real pristine condition.
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perhaps the most monstrous, or at least puzzling crime of all in the local wave, which always seems to start at wal-mart. sometimes you wonder just why we have so many bodily fluids, and what we might use them all for.
A Codorus Township woman threw a sweatshirt soaked with urine, saliva and mucous in a state trooper's face after he arrested her for retail theft Saturday, according to state police.
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somehow, i feel that i will be able to continue without ted kennedy. but the nation itself will collapse, thank god.
meanwhile: more insane crime from new freedom. what is the world coming to, if anything?
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it's awfully nice, many days, to live in new freedom, pa. the worst thing to show up in the googlenews alert in months was this shocking story. meanwhile, 4 anti-pagan protesters gathered to whine about the sweetest thing you can imagine: the fairie festival.
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