Climate Reality Dallas Fort Worth Creatives Group, 4 May 2021

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From YouTube: Climate Change Blues - September Song

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A multimedia arts piece on the fires on the West Coast - in process (Marya Salman, Dan Green, Maureen Kellen-Taylor)

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Oh yes, I've got the climate change blues, so here's my september song in words and pictures.

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I took a trip back to the country where I lived for so many years. My plan was to cross this bridge and keep on driving north.

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I thought of how I fell in love with the land, the gentle curves of the slopes, the forest, crowning, the crest of hills, the cliffs and all the creatures that brought them to life. I love them all.

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I remember feeling so free amongst the trees and the trees seemed carefree too. It seemed like together, we'd hula in the summer.

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Breeze, but that was before the fires came, I thought of all those times I walked in the woods and how carefree I felt the trees seem carefree too, and I imagined that we who led together in the soft breezes songs.

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But that was before the fires.

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Now, it all seems to be burning. Fires are everywhere.

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The hot hot days make the hot hot fires: worse: drought, after drought, after drought have dried up this beautiful land and sucked the life of all the trees and plants, one in every 30 acres has burned, and even those that already have burned are burning again. Fires and heat are happening now.

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In this september zone, fragments of the forest are falling. The yellow skies are weeping ash. Wherever we look as far as we can see, the beloved hillsides are burned and black. Where are the people? Where are the trees? Where are the creatures they've all gone, but wait.

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Somehow, nearby roses are still.

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