And Jamaica
rum will freeze!”
So runs the
description of the short and long-term weather on the Greenland whaling
grounds. This is to point out that it
is cold here, and the ground has the Currier and Ives appearance that we
associate with December. The snow was
preceded by ca. 2 inches of rain that has all the creeks and rivers running at
bank full. Looking at the forecast for
the coming week, it appears that winter has arrived.
It is time to
settle in, stoke the stove, and tie flies. Gloria is trying to finish her semester’s
project. I’m through with classes until
next year. I’m still not certain what I
will take, if anything. I’d like to do
some serious fishing but that depends most of all upon how my shoulders respond
to cortisone. I had them both injected
yesterday and the sharper pains are responding to the steroid but more so today
to the lidocaine in the steroid bolus.
If I get two months of relative comfort, I’ll be thrilled.
By means of follow up on yesterday’s comments. I include the following from the Washington
Post today.
Posted
at 03:59 PM ET, 12/07/2011
Remembering
Pearl Harbor
“I wouldn’t draw
any big conclusions from this. But I do wonder. I wonder if Pearl Harbor — the
very definition of a world-changing event, with 2,400 Americans killed, and the
country suddenly plunged into war — is gradually receding in national memory as
the Greatest Generation leaves us. Is that possible? When does something become
officially “a long time ago.” I don’t think 70 years is that long ago. I don’t
even think 270 years is that long ago.”
. Achenbach seems to feel much as I do. The pages of history have been turned and the
readership has changed its character.
The “reader” of today’s history wants a movie, with short, outtakes spoon-feeding
them the gist. If there’s no
accompanying music video, it won’t be remembered. So goes Korea.
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