Aridity of the Soul

Hi Allen

Another month has passed and I am getting closer to nothing at all... probably caused by South-East Queensland's lack of rain. Water reservoirs are down to critical levels and "level 5" water conservation laws came into effect.
Australia Dries me up...

I intended to do some work on my never-successful WEB SITE project, but something always interferes... lately it has been my sister's garden, ( lack of water? ) flower-beds look like abandoned graveyards and the vegetable patch is now covered with pebbles... I would pour cement over the yellow grass... which reminds me that the annoying buzz of lawn-mowers is not heard as often as in the past...

How are you doing? I have read that China knows how to create rain-clouds. Can you send me the recipe??? Love you always, Della


Della,
Aridity yes is not the most fruitful of environments. HOWEVER, if you can "turn it into words" ( as ' aridity of the soul' does ) you might be able to evoke a rain cloud for yourself! Surely the extremes of climate can be a poweful stimulus to verbal mind, creative effort---

I know, I know, " easy to say " such things--- but, what have you got to lose? Take the Arid Season by the horns and make speak! Try translating all those "dryings-up" into word pockets that themselves will be " water in the desert" for future readers or even present day readers.

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom," a wise man said. Consider all the extremes, and rate the desert amongst them--is it your least favorite choice? Would you prefer Labrador winter? Siberia? Or monsoon India?

Today is the last day of winter here---summer, there. Hope you get some MOIST relief soon!
love, Adze

No Relief... After a 10-year drought words are as difficult as late, late, late solutions... The eminent PM of Ozland Mr. John Howard himself discovered words don't come easy, all he had to say was: pray for rain... Do you suppose he meant prey to God? God gave intelligeence and then retired above the clouds to observe how long smart politicians take to figure it out... The politicians threaten the farmer's water supply will be cut off if the Lord does not fill dams and replenish dwindling river waters... Meanwhile tons of water are allotted to the constructing of mega -building and city-crossing traffic tunnels, while the icreasing population must flush the toilette once a day, and water the garden with the few drops collected in a bucket while taking a flash shower. Desalination plants are too expensive and citizens repeatedly refused recycled sewage, even if passed through the process of reversed osmosis. But we do not enquire why ten years of drought passed without concrete solution, we do not not talk about the prospect of $10.00 for a kilo of brown onion or a bag of carrots, we talk about the war and sending more troupes to Iraq... We can do without fruit and vegetables as long as there are politicians who serve as heroes for the big guns of other nations...