Sunrise and Sunset

Photograph of recent sunrise from my house by me

At sunrise, there is often a mist that comes up and obscures the horizon. It is faint, but when you look towards something that is far away you will see that the details are obscured.

The weather never changes here. It is always sunny and nice, sometimes with puffy white clouds.

Online, in the New York Times, Reuters, and the Apple News app, things are getting violent and chaotic. What’s happening feels like stochastic terrorism. Just a week ago, the prime minister of Slovakia was shot five times and critically wounded. His life has been spared, but other, lesser known people will not be so lucky.

Now Biden is behind in the polls and he’s counting on a knock-out blow at the debate. I predict a finite probability that Trump will cancel the second debate after a weak performance in the first.

Yet those things aren’t going to affect us directly. What will affect us all is the unavoidable death-watch beetle of climate change, ticking away in the sea and air. The effects are already being seen in the abnormal weather patterns and sudden temperature extremes that we experience now.