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Saturday, January 17, 2015

There's nothing to do, there's nowhere to go. - Shunryu Suzuki to Richard Baker. This became a sort of mantra and koan for Baker in his early years of practice. - posted in Shunryu Suzuki quotes and excerpts






2014 Was The Hottest Year Since At Least 1880, Government Finds - BBC - More charts and graphs here - Dallas Morning News
Click here to see some of the photos from rallies against the Keystone Pipeline across the country and the petition delivery at the White House. - Good for them, vainly battling against the overwhelming forces enthusiastically working toward world suicide as far as us and many species are concerned but the world? It'll still be around and, I know it must be disappointing to so many of us doing everything possible to heat the globe, but life will survive and evolve as always and in the big big picture, nothing significant, the dream continues unstoppable. But must be really bad karma for those who let it happen. Now let's see, who would that be? That's all the time I can spare for this now. Time for a break. - DC
- posted in Climate Change


If you look at the world map from the Dallas Morning News article on 2014 being the hottest year recorded, you'll see that Bali was in one of the spots with the least temperature rise. Guess that means we don't have to worry about anything here.  - posted in Saunters