The friend I had to dinner last night put on her jacket
even though I offered to turn on the heat.
I told her about William Schwalbe’s saying that his father (in spite of
his wealth) always put on a sweater instead of turning on the heat, which meant
that their house was always between freezing and frozen.
And speaking of writers, I’m now “reading” Richard
Russo’s Elsewhere on Audible, and he brings up the toxic issue: Another writer from his town says that if the
companies hadn’t hired cheap labor, it would have been corporate suicide. Richard Russo says that by that token, what
they did (abandoning the town when they had the chance to create a place to
store their waste ecologically) was corporate murder. What the companies did, according to Russo,
was to say no to the opportunity of building an eco-friendly way of getting rid
of their waste, which was polluting the community. Instead, they chose to take their business
elsewhere, so they could get away with polluting another community.
Also in the new:
There may soon be a new water pact between the US and Mexico to add
areas south of the border to Colorado River water sharing agreements. Right now Nevada, Arizona, California,
Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming are considering this pact.
”The
agreement would link Mexican and U.S. water allocations during shortages, and
it would let Mexico store water in U.S. reservoirs, including Lake Mead, for
the first time.”
Once again I skipped my bath. I took one yesterday and will take another one
tomorrow after I get back from the Y.
Oh, I should mention that there's a good column by a SF Chronicle writer I usually do NOT like, Camille Millner, "Room for everyone in the bicycle lane."
http://www.sfgate.com/living/article/Bicycling-in-San-Francisco-4024614.php
This is a very good article on how bicyclists create a better city, and she even mentioned the "social and economic reasons" that "density is what we want." (Building up rather than creating more urban sprawl).
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