Open water in These titles mean nothing.

  • Feb. 8, 2024, 11:27 a.m.
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Unseasonably warm.
Jim is complaining that his silage pile is getting muddy and also it’s muddy in the fields where he feeds the silage.
I listened to a CBC radio report of a town - I thought in eastern Canada but I’m not sure - where they depend on cold and winter so they can make snow roads and have ice crossings of rivers and creeks. Now it’s too warm and they can’t get any trucks in with fuel for the school buses and the trucks that haul water and other stuff.
I wonder about Norway. It’s such a think country with so much sea coast. I wonder if it has erosion.
Also the whole thing with the ocean currents that keep Europe warm - I think there is a risk that they will stop flowing as the have been.

Pictures are of the kids in Chicago. Note the open lake.

I finished my James Frey book. It had a grim ending. I still like it but I wonder about recommending it. Bright Shiny Morning is a biography of a city - Los Angeles. It reminds me of Sandburg’s Chicago poem.

Chicago
BY CARL SANDBURG
Hog Butcher for the World,
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation’s Freight Handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the Big Shoulders:

They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.
And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again.
And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of women and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger.
And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them:
Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities;
Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness,
Bareheaded,
Shoveling,
Wrecking,
Planning,
Building, breaking, rebuilding,
Under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with white teeth,
Under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young man laughs,
Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle,
Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse, and under his ribs the heart of the people,
Laughing!
Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.

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Added:
If you have a few minutes you might like to watch this.


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