I loved this piece, Jordan, reminding us of catastrophic thinking, when Portland faces a heat wave, not unreasonable in terms of history.
We had a warm humid spell here reminding me of how used I've become to having cool air on demand in the Southeastern U.S. Yikes, here in Quebec, we have to open windows, the basement doors, etc. And so there's a tradeoff between our noise-cancelling acrylic window inserts and airflow (we've left our window inserts in), with just a few windows and doors for fresh air.
But today the cool air was back, highs in the upper 60's, although I hear the highway noise as I write, through the open screen door.
Lisa, this felt cooling to read! I wish we all had a home in Canada. I’m friends with a few Canadians via denim communities and I’m sort of jealous of the layers they still get to wear.
The light side of apocalyptacism is an awareness that *our* end is always near, that our actions matter now. Another parallel I see between Progressives and the Moral Majority is genuinely righteous anger at the actions of Presidents. There's usually a good reason when movements arise, and I do think the Boomer focus on End Times was prophetic to some degree, warning us that the war and destruction they were born after would eventually return.
Our pastor, Rick McKinley, wrote a book a few years back called Faith for This Moment with Daniel as a major theme, basically a message for how Christians might be called to live within the midst of Babylon.
I loved this piece, Jordan, reminding us of catastrophic thinking, when Portland faces a heat wave, not unreasonable in terms of history.
We had a warm humid spell here reminding me of how used I've become to having cool air on demand in the Southeastern U.S. Yikes, here in Quebec, we have to open windows, the basement doors, etc. And so there's a tradeoff between our noise-cancelling acrylic window inserts and airflow (we've left our window inserts in), with just a few windows and doors for fresh air.
But today the cool air was back, highs in the upper 60's, although I hear the highway noise as I write, through the open screen door.
Lisa, this felt cooling to read! I wish we all had a home in Canada. I’m friends with a few Canadians via denim communities and I’m sort of jealous of the layers they still get to wear.
Thank you, Julian. I absolutely agree!
The light side of apocalyptacism is an awareness that *our* end is always near, that our actions matter now. Another parallel I see between Progressives and the Moral Majority is genuinely righteous anger at the actions of Presidents. There's usually a good reason when movements arise, and I do think the Boomer focus on End Times was prophetic to some degree, warning us that the war and destruction they were born after would eventually return.
Our pastor, Rick McKinley, wrote a book a few years back called Faith for This Moment with Daniel as a major theme, basically a message for how Christians might be called to live within the midst of Babylon.