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Feeling just a wee bit apocalyptic
Posted By katie allison granju
Between gas prices, the heat, and the current state of politics, blogger Julie Auer isn’t feeling very optimistic at the moment:
I went to the pool and hung out for a few hours under the blazing sun with a thin sheen of 30 sunscreen protecting me from the nourishing, punishing Ra. I got nostalgic about summers when I was a kid. For a few summers growing up I went to a big, beautiful pool with a lovely greenspace around it. I remember running barefoot along the grass when the lifeguards yelled at us kids for running poolside, and being careful not to step on clover, because bees were everywhere. As I lay in the greenspace beside the pool this past Saturday, I saw withering clover all around me and not any bees. I’m sure you’ve heard of the “disappearing bees” phenomenon, which is depressing and - according to my intuition and a few learned essays I’ve read - a kind of sinister, silent heralding of a coming comeuppance. They’ll be back, but I think when they come back, times are going to be different.
Jun 10th, 2008
Yes, it is happening: CHANGE. Things aren’t the way they were because (do the math) we added things and subtracted things. Man makes the bed where all must lie, even bees. The rumor of cockroaches inheriting the earth? My thoughts are what would they want of it after we are through? And, bees really wrecked picnics when I was a kid. Especially at watermelon eating times, they did swarm.