Time for me to call it a night. Not that I have not slept a bit this afternoon. It is, I do not expect much rest: I do not like the new CPAP mask; the hip hurts when I sleep; the weather is gloomy, and the room gets too warm. But I must take a chance at it.
I promised Hand and Fork, I would stop in tomorrow. CC might drop in. We both know she has not got that much time left.
And I need to get some work done on my story. I got two pages tonight. A bit tighter than what I did at Fort Dix, but also pretty much all of what I wrote then.
I did go to McClure's for RC Cola.
HLN ran a West Wing marathon, and that was a distraction. I find the show addictive, and still on point. Ah, if all our government officials were that hard-working at the country;'s good and spoke so well.
Other things done this afternoon:
- Read A Speculative Endeavor Education has become an investment. But what are its returns? from Lapham's Quarterly
- I finally got a chance to read Rachel Cusk. I had read reviews about her novels, that she was experimenting with form. Thanks to The Paris Review, I got to read her short Story Freedom. The form, not so experimental; the writing was crisp, slowly entrapping, the plot was not quite as expected. Philosophical discussions during a hair dye job, the topic freedom. Yes, she is quite good.
- I saw this headline today from The New York Times via Google News: The U.S. Will Need Thousands of Wind Farms. Will Small Towns Go Along?. I saved this bit for you:
“Projects have been getting more contentious,” said Sarah Banas Mills, a lecturer at the school for environment and sustainability at the University of Michigan who has studied renewable development in the Midwest. “The low hanging fruit places have been taken.”
In Piatt County, the zoning board decided to conduct a mock trial of sorts. During the first nine hearings, Apex and its witnesses made the case that property values would not decline and that other concerns about wind farms — that they are ugly, that they kill birds, or that the low frequency noise they emit can adversely affect human health — were not major issues.
They won some converts. Meg Miner, 61, a resident who was on the fence about the project, decided to support Apex after considering how the project would help fight climate change.
But others were worried about all the issues that the real estate appraiser mentioned, and more. “I moved here for nature, for trees, for crops,” said Sandy Coyle, who lives nearby and opposed the project. “I’m not interested in living near an industrial wind farm.”
Much of that skepticism appeared to be earnest concern from community members who weren’t sold on the project’s overall merits. On the fringe of the debate, however, was a digital misinformation campaign designed to distort the facts about wind energy.
The website of a group called Save Piatt County!, which opposes the project, is rife with fallacies about renewable energy and inaccuracies about climate science. On Facebook pages, residents opposed to the project shared negative stories about wind power, following a playbook that has been honed in recent years by anti-wind activists, some of whom have ties to the fossil fuel industry. The organizers of the website and Facebook groups did not reply to requests for comment.
Which reminded me I had not posted the photos my sister took of the wind farm west and north of Elwood:
These were taken this past Thanksgiving. Yes, it was a dreary day. We get a lot of them around here.
- I found out Garry Wills, a decades-long favorite author, has written about Henry Adams: Henry Adams and the Making of America.
- Sequestrum announced it has two themes for submission: time and wonder. I have nothing ready for those. However, I just noticed it will take fiction up to 12,000 words. And pays.
- Roanoke Review has a new issue. I really like the poem À Dieu by Hibah Shabkhez.
- 2022 Round Two, A Look Back from The Muncie Business Journal, is a podcast. Is there anything like this for Anderson?
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