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yesterday,  i was in,  as IN a hurricane.  I watched.  I was glued.   All day till i gave up and went to sleep.  This morning,  going out to Feed,  it was surreal….Sun…desert     Two Worlds,  but same country.  ????

Went off to work Away today and came home to some Opinion i think from the Chicago Tribune about how we'd been duped,  for Ratings,  at at first i thought,  oh,  bummer,  dumb me,  but then i thought, NO,  i watched because i wanted to.  I wanted to SEE how it was there,  hour after hour after hour in a Hurricane and i need this,  NEED this as info for what is to come…for how this USA will go forward,  on it's premise of no climate change,  how this USA will go forward with "rebuild",  when "rebuild" is really oh so very unwise…how Change is Change and must be seen as Change…so…in the end,  at the end of this day,  i am ok with having been glued to the screen.  It was really quite amazing,  as i don't have TV and i somehow got the drift that i could watch LIVE on Utube??????????????  How amazing is that?

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the three plates.   not dinner plate size.  smaller…what would they be?  Salad plates?  i don't know.  Three of them.  For whatever.  i don't need such things.  but……

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  1. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    Climate change and its effect on weather severity … how is this not obvious to the GOP?
    And the plates … I love this size so much more than dinner plate size. How it encourages a more modest portion.

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  2. grace Avatar
    grace

    a modest portion.
    a modest portion.
    a modest portion.

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  3. joanne Avatar
    joanne

    I watched the hurricane coverage and figured out pretty much at landfall–that nothing was going to be “horrendous” as the eye never recovered. Other than for the Virgin Islands and Cuba. Something no one mentioned until today. Perhaps they could not get pictures?
    I, too, wonder at the republican view of no climate change. And the Texas congressmen voted NO for the FEMA relief package. All of them.. You would have to check but the Florida congressmen might have also voted NO. There is a list on line. Take but never give.

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  4. jude Avatar
    jude

    i love plates. considering them. I always wanted to be a potter.

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  5. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    there is a terrible beauty in the spiral of the cyclone

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  6. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    Three of anything feels complete, yet remains open to addition. Your plates with those blue marks like single brush strokes are fine additions to your precious ‘stuff’, implying future sharing.
    For so many days, weeks I was obsessed with tracking the great storms, earthquakes, floods and fires…constantly returning to the screen for news of friends widespread and elsewhere. Then yesterday – the day of remembrance of the most astounding event in my experience that brought the known worlds to awful dead stillness and shifted everything through grief to rolling aftermath. I woke to the sound of bagpipes outside my window at the thirteenth Precinct, to their moment of silence here commemorating the lost. took some shots from my fire escape, then went down and sat with Detective Brian. He told me what that day had been for him, how many family and friends were snatched away. Touching. – then traveled to Tibet house with a friend to participate in meditation. After that, we wandered East where she introduced me to her affordable hair cut woman, the lovely Helen Chen. I lost my hair cut person of decades when he retired last year and have been unattended since – so, a sixteen $ fine wash and cut and I felt suddenly lighter. then home slowly to rest, eat, and off to my regular writing groups first meeting of the session. It was brilliant…ten familiars and to fascinating new souls.
    Tonight I’ll vote …A good woman for the City Council and a preliminary for a new Mayor known for decades of tenant protection and more good things.
    I’m exhausted, but stopping here and at Spirit cloth and others blogs late at night helps keep me going. A moment of THANKS.

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  7. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    add the W to to and see you later dear Grace

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  8. ali Avatar
    ali

    Nice size plates. I don’t like dinner plates anymore, want smaller meals, tea plates are too small so they are just right.
    What you say about rebuilding, lots of talk here about pouring billions into the British Virgin Islands and Barbuda to rebuild the tourist industry, and I just thought, but, that means continuing with all the unnecessary flights for holidays which are contributing to the problem, and just suppose we lived in a world where we accepted that the people on those islands could go back to a simple life based on growing and fishing and just living.

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  9. ali Avatar
    ali

    Love the small mountain and the majestic mountain and the moon appearing, and all those small beginnings. x

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  10. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Watching the evening news and seeing people helping people …. it’s the coverage of the aftermath that always leaves me with that feeling of gratitude. The plates are very cool! I can see a big piece of your pie and wishing I could come over.

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  11. grace Avatar
    grace

    i am waiting. I guess it’s too soon yet, it all being still
    too raw…but to begin connecting the dots…will we? Not
    just republicans, but all of us…..those who experienced
    it first hand could be the most powerful voices

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  12. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes…it’s on the list for the HILL….build a kiln.
    but it’s funny, having had and having now all manner
    of plates and bowls
    for some unknown reason, these clunky kind of restaurant
    things are most loved..????
    my mother loved her Melmac

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  13. grace Avatar
    grace

    i watched a lot with the sound turned off

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  14. grace Avatar
    grace

    that Would be so, out your window, in your streets…

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  15. grace Avatar
    grace

    it’s worth thinking that through….taking a breath, stepping
    back….thinking of ALL POSSIBILITY, and how on Earth we
    can tweak things to make things more sustainable…

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  16. grace Avatar
    grace

    finding the small things, or, letting them find me
    is such pleasure

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  17. grace Avatar
    grace

    i’m watching and listening to the voices of the devastated and
    hear them say they will RE BUILD….that being foremost in
    their minds….am kind of dumstruck

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