A fresher and brighter morning.
Monthly Archives: March 2006
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A fresher and brighter morning.
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Not quite a gratuitous piccie. I was looking at the area around the top of the breakwater – you can see that the shoreline is quite eroded. I think much of this is transitory, but then I thought that, if I were to build a breakwater, I wouldn’t build it so that the incoming sea could go beyond it… Which is, perhaps, a sign that the present tide is rising higher than the planners expected.
The heart and despair of Peak Oil
Have a look at this.
Lots of things resonated with me, especially “One of the things that make peak oil/peak energy so difficult to comprehend is the inability of most people to visualize a radically different existence” which resonated with my sense of Prophetic Imagination, and “Mr. Mayor, we do not imagine that we can take away the suffering of your people,” I said. “That would be presumptuous on our part. But what we can do is look together at two main ways we respond to collective suffering. The suffering of a people can bring forth from them new strengths and solidarity. Or it can breed isolation and conflict, turning them against each other. There is always a choice” which resonates with what I understand the theological task to be.
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Another very grey morning.
I’ve been meaning to explain something about the pictures (for those who don’t already know) – the black lines in the foreground are seaweed, and they mark the place of any particular high tide. So the line furthest to the left represents the highest tide mark of recent months.
I keep thinking about the news from Greenland (see this). I expect the left hand black line to progress in fits and starts over the coming years. In twenty years time most of Mersea will be under water.
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It was very grey and grim this morning. Ollie appreciated it though: as it was my day off we had a much longer walk than usual – an hour and a half, including, as the tide was low, a walk way out into the estuary to walk on the sand banks and get muddy feet.
Also saw this – looked like a small explosive had gone off next to one of the beach huts. I’m sure there is a rational explanation.
A Canticle for Leibowitz
A Canticle for Liebowitz, by Walter Miller. There’s a good Wikipedia page here if you want to discover a bit more about it.
I loved this. Hadn’t read any sf for ages – must be at least six months – so it was great to plug back in. Lots of stimulating images, and, of course, it fitted so nicely with my ‘After Virtue’ interests. Lots of things will stay with me, but perhaps the final debate about euthanasia most of all. Very challenging, but I was grateful that the religious perspective wasn’t implicitly ridiculed, in the way that much sf would do.
Ollie Swims!
I knew that Ollie swam, but he can actually swim really well. Totally fearless. Although stupid as well – yesterday he dived in to the water to try and fetch a buoy that he saw moving in the water….
It was gorgeous weather at lunch time, tho’ a bit cold. Took the eldest out for the walk as well:
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Self image
You are an Independent Leader.
Your solid grounding in the practicalities of life, along with your self-assuredness and your willingness to appreciate new things make you a LEADER.
My Personal Dna Report
Hat-tip to my friend Psybertron.