7 thoughts on “Friday Haiku: they called her Helene”

1. Your haiku says it all, Tracy 😦
   By the way, my copies of “Not Too Late” and “They Called Me A Lioness” arrived yesterday.

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   • Yes, a pretty straight forward assessment. No poetics, just the facts. 😦 But I’m pleased to know your books came yesterday and I hope they’re good reads for you. Wishing you a good weekend, Rosaliene.

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     • Thanks, Tracy. Wishing you the same 🙂

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2. It is terrible to see all the predictions playing out now in real time.

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   • Yes, exactly. I’m currently reading The Arbonaut by Meg Lowman and she wrote about the gum tree dieback in outback Australia in the early 1980s, and how they weren’t yet applying “climate change” to the situation. Now, they recognize that Australia was an early warning system regarding climate change. It’s very hard to watch all this unfold, Tracy. 😦

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     • I should read that book. Local councils have convinced themselves that our eucalypts won’t survive. They pour water on deciduous imports but our gum trees are left to their own devices, no water and no enabling native understory. Climate change exacerbates their woes.

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       • I think you’d really appreciate The Arbornaut, especially because of the time the author spent in Australia and the focus on specific tree species such as the Giant Stinging Tree! Amazing stuff.

         It must be difficult to witness the watering of deciduous imports alongside the neglect of the eucalypts. Very sad.

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