Memorable Stuff I Read This Week

Returning to the very same place,
let it be a hilltop
with a view of the night city …

— Tadeusz Dąbrowski / “Hilltop”

It is dangerous — extreme heat is the No. 1 weather-related killer, so you need to take it seriously…

— Michelle Grossman / NBC News Meteorologist

Global warming is costing lives, deepening health inequality and driving the spread of diseases across Europe. A review of hundreds of studies has revealed that between 2013 and 2022, there were around 17 more heat-related deaths per 100,000 people per year than during the previous nine years.

— Carissa Wong / “How climate change is hitting Europe” / Nature

… I want to catch your thin neck full
bodied breath in the blue

funeral vase, your death
masked. this is like that

satanist music where they
play it backwards. so I’ve heard.

— Stella Wong / “dramatic monologue as Beatriz Ferreyra”

My experience with high temperatures in the PNW heat dome included misery, anger, and desperation. The longer the heat went on the more obsessively focused on it I became. After three days all I could think about was how to cool down …

— Anonymous / from Bill McKibben’s Substack newsletter

To proceed, carefully and deliberately, from nonsense, with a straight face, often arriving at a new kind of sense. The world keeps opening up, unfolding, and just when we expect it to be closed — to be a sealed, sensible box — it shows us something completely surprising.

— David Byrne / Arboretum

… where once you used to be,
when your “whole life”
still lay ahead of you,
when everything was before.

— Tadeusz Dąbrowski / “Hilltop”

What I’m Listening To:

And the time will come when you see
we are all one, and life flows within
within you and without you

— George Harrison, Beatles / “Within You Without You”