According to the Huffington Post, the 2013 hurricane season looks just as worrisome as the 2012 season: nine hurricanes predicted, four of which will be major, and 18 named storms. Meanwhile according to Bill McKibben, people’s refusal to accept to climate destabilization is finally taking on storm proportions in the form of a fossil fuel … Continue reading
In “Fighting Time”, BK Loren describes a visit to a Chinese acupuncturist who she hoped would give her a diagnosis for the bizarre, debilitating, frightening symptoms that had suddenly overtaken her body, symptoms like intermittent speech loss, radical sleep disruption, and–strangest of all given that she had not recently given birth–lactation. “The wind enjoys your … Continue reading
When I first moved to the Amazon in 2007, I would sit out on my balcony at the end of the day and watch the birds divebomb the exotic fruit trees or dance in the sky, doing their usual noisy evening rituals that I, not being even an amateur birder, didn’t understand. But I could … Continue reading
