Archive for November, 2007
Kids, Kelpies, snakes
November 1, 2007It’s a wonder any kids ever manage to survive and become adults, I said to my friend, Glenn, in an email just a few moments ago, recalling a time when the granddaughter of one of my brothers, when she was about two, picked up a set of dropped car keys, rushed directly to an electrical outlet, and stuck them in. Fortunately, she was wearing rubber-soled shoes.
I had just learned from Glenn, who lives in Maine, that his six-year-old granddaughter shattered quite badly a bone in one arm a day or two ago. She and her family had recently moved to a piece of land in Louisiana and she fell, there, into a 25-foot ravine.
In Louisiana, you might ask? A 25-foot ravine? Glenn anticipated the question, saying, “If they lived five miles farther south, there would be no ravines – just Louisiana as Louisiana is, safely flat and several feet about the rising sea level.”
Always philosophical, Glenn wrote, “Well, they won’t drown in the future.”
Global warming is never far from the minds of lots of parents and grandparents in Australia and the rest of the world, these days. And here, with the drought continuing despite Read the rest of this entry »