september 2018 – goodnews editorial

What do you think about the rising temperatures and sea levels? About the raging fires, and the furnaces that are our cities in the summer? About the brown fields, parks and gardens? The wilting crops, the slaughtered cattle, the dying fish? The suffering elderly? Does that sound like the Seven Plagues to you or should we wait for locusts? And is the world at large in denial? Our planet is rapidly changing, faster than anyone expected. The prognoses, extrapolations, calculations, predictions, projections, forecasts and visions of our scientists are surpassed on a daily basis. Keeping cool has never been more important. We, as a species, are richer, healthier and more secure than ever before but our summers will hardly get colder, our urgent problems won’t go away all by themselves. We have work to do so let’s shrink our lifestyles, recycle our belongings, simplify our habits. Now.

Reduced yours,
Susanne G. Seiler


memo to lowry

You’re right, there are grotesques who shine
a dark light that lures us like how the sirens
tried to lure Odysseus, and yes, maybe we
ourselves are among the grotesques, but
there are also the beautiful who, if we’re
lucky, save us from ourselves, and validate
the sun’s light, and maybe also the moon’s.

Matthew Sweeney

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