Sunday morn here in QLD. Weather is warm outside. Skies are overcast. It's been threatening to rain. Had a lovely, large heavy storm system blow over us. Dark and menacing. It was moving at at a high rate of knots. In the distance I could see the hot air over the ground being sucked up into the storm-system. Watched as the cumulonimbus monster grew and reared it dark, shaggy head. I watched as it raced toward us. Sucking clouds up into its growing body. I enjoyed noting how the ground cooled quickly as the weather-system passed. How, after a very warm day (36c/ 98f), the ground level air chilled quickly.
Funny that it did not eventually rain, here. Which is fine. I dont need the rain right now. Im sure that further down its path a load of fresh, clean, cool rain was discharged. We got the cooling effects of the dragon's shadow. Got to watch in awe as it flew above us. Very cool.
First month of the New Year passes. School has started. It's business as usual, once again. Back to the old routine. Routines are good, soothing, comforting.
Like living on the land. It is both soothing and comforting, and daunting. 12months ago we were experiencing floods. Did not know at the onset how big and damaging the floods would be. I am still cleaning up.
But I move slowly. At an old-fart pace. Much has been achieved. Much is yet to be tended to. I am not keeping score.
Looking further afield, watching the "rest of the world", as time passes, as the future becomes today, as the past becomes nostalgia....
I watch and ponder as the political pendulums swing... New PM in NZ. War that is not War in Ukraine rages on. New rules to drop booze restrictions in rural communities here in Aus, has back fired. It was considered to be paternal to restrict booze in some "outback"/ "aboriginal" communities. So of course the liberals dropped their usual "its racist" comments, changed the laws and now are back tracking... https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jan/24/government-announces-immediate-restrictions-on-alcohol-sales-in-alice-springs-to-quell-spike
I am perplexed by what appears to be another brutal murder by police in the USA. Perplexed in a more than one vein... a) why do folks that get stopped by the Police simply not cooperate? Honest to goodness! Why not simply cooperate? Be calm. Stay cool. AND... b) why does it take so many armed professionals to subdue one suspected perpetrator? There is so much WRONG with this picture.
And one side of self righteous angry folks yelling at another side of self righteous angry folks ain't going to move us forward as a society. Something simply is not working.
On a good note, I dont see the usual, gratuitous Burn Loot Murder party, after the fact.
And the beat goez on...
more later
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