Hello blogging friends,<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been a long time since I ‘ve posted to this blog, but I\u2019ve been very busy writing a new poem, setting it as a blues song, and then struggling with recording it myself. I\u2019ve included the song and the words below, and I do hope if any of you are singers, and find yourself interested in singing this song, you will contact me!<\/p>\n
The song, Disposable People (in a Disposable World)<\/em><\/strong>, was written after the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen last December. Since then things have gotten drastically worse. We have incredibly disastrous floods in Pakistan, India, and China, a killing heat wave in Russia, drought in Niger (and many other places), to list only a few. Here in the San Francisco Bay Area we\u2019ve had the coldest summer since 1972. In other places it\u2019s been much hotter than usual. In Greenland, a huge chunk of glacier has fallen into the sea, threatening the sea lanes. This fall meteorologists have predicted a very bad hurricane season because the water temperatures are much higher.<\/p>\n And yet, the United States, the country that contributes the most to global warming, still refuses to sign the Kyoto Protocol. Instead, our government has made attempts to get other countries like Ecuador and Bolivia to sign on to the US’s own much reduced agreement (that effectively sabotaged the Copenhagen conference) by threatening to curtail aid to those countries. (The President of Ecuador responded by refusing to be either threatened or bribed, and offering instead, to pay the US the same amount of money if they would sign the Kyoto Protocol!)<\/p>\n In the past when I’ve started feeling helpless faced with global warming, war, and the self-destructive greed of humans, I\u2019ve always thought about the smallness of the earth in the vastness of the universe as a kind of solace \u2013 a concept you will hear in the song. But the other day my friend Amy said to me, \u201cBut we don\u2019t know what effect the death of the earth will have on the universe. It might be like the flap of a butterfly\u2019s wings\u2026.\u201d No solace left.<\/p>\n Click the link below to hear the song. Also wanted to let you know that my book, Dancing the Deep Hum<\/em><\/strong>, is on sale on my website<\/a> only for $12 (rather than $18 on Amazon, etc.).\u00a0 To find out more go to www.deephum.com <\/a>.<\/p>\n