it was hard to sleep last night and today it's hard to think yet i did read more than half of the young naturalist dara's book and i may finish today if my brain doesn't curdle in the heat. i could go swimming but i'd have to ride through the searing haze. it's happening so fast. we always pitied the next generation but now it's us. we have to live in this blood-curdling empirical paradigm on the wondrous little planet earth.