hah!--how perfectly Gert says it, too. Thanks, Hal--this has me
imagining Gert responses to the un-landscape of BushBag's mind.
hmmmm... perhaps a poem in that...
Environmentally the related problems/issues of development are most
serious, too: they (whoever "they" are/is) seem quickly to be filling
up every possible space (they aren't eveing billing the empty-flatness
as scenic any more) in states like Texas, Arizona, Nevada, and New
Mexico (tho maybe not so quickly NM--so little economy there, I guess).
I see it when i drive cross country to visit in Arizona twice a year
or so. The feeling I get on observing it over time is one of frenetic
desperation, though of course I'm being dramatic about that, and it is
just an intuitive hunch, but nonetheless a repeated feeling. These
places have all gone development-insane--they're building houses on top
of houses in places that have very little ground water supply.
Environmentally it seems quite frightening, in terms of future
sustainability. And then there's all that buying up of waterways and
water rights throughout the western U.S. and Mexico, too, I believe I
read somewhere. And: evident drought, even though there have been
record rain seasons for a couple years now.
On the whole, it seems to be shaping up in dire ways, again, not unlike
whatever vacant thought fills this prez's mind.
But, hey, Gert's welcome to fill in anytime, eh?
best,
c
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From: Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 12:58:55 -0500
Subject: Re: Rebecca Seiferle/Chris's blog
{ Eileen said something like, 'oh isn't
{ this near where the prez has his ranch?' I said, yeah, what'ya
think?
{ She said, 'it's just so empty..."
{ As in, absolutely vacant of meaningful landmarks--so, not unlike
how I
{ imagine this prez's mind.
Ste. Gertrude had something to say about that:
"In the United States there is more space where nobody
is than where anybody is."
--*The Geographical History of America, or The Relation
of Human Nature to the Human Mind* (1936)
Hal "Poetic statements are no more actual statements
than the peaches visible in a still life are actual
dessert."
--Susanne K. Langer
Halvard Johnson
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