Virtual Residency Day Fifteen, Weather

Last night we had a thunderstorm that took out our electricity for a while. This is fairly frequent up here. The result was that I couldn't post yesterday as I normally do. It reminded me that this entire Virtual Residency experiment depends on electronics: to access each other and an audience, for me to do research and work out various delivery kinks. Mother Nature of course, is on her own course. So beyond the reminder of dependency on electronics, is the reminder of interdependence with nature. As Indigenous peoples world wide are seeing, global warming erodes much traditional wisdom about how to survive; when to plant and harvest, for example. Even conventional farmers in California, beset by the heat wave there, are learning how fragile those presumptions can be, as they complain of wine grapes shriveled into raisins.

As of now, electronics are still depend on weather. That, as with so much else, brings us back to the unpredictable "nature" of global warming.