![]() ![]() I vote for environmentally aware political candidates. I do what I can to lower my carbon footprint, to encourage biodiversity in my small yard. Human behavior has plunged the earth into an everlasting summer. There’s a difference between weather and climate, of course, but increasingly the connection between them - and between them and us - becomes clearer. In one important sense, summer has gone nowhere: During a single week at the end of July, the National Weather Service issued five heat advisories for Nashville, with heat indexes over 100 degrees in this fertile place traditionally known as the Garden of Tennessee. We wonder: What has become of the languorous summer we longed for back in the sadness of winter? Where did the endless, grass-fragrant days go? The children trudge back to school under a blistering sun. The dog days of August crisp the spring-green underbrush to crackling tinder. How brief is the season of “splendour in the grass,” as the poet William Wordsworth put it, and surely summer is the time that brings such lessons closest to home. Life is a single wink from a single lightning bug. ![]() Life is the glint of light on rushing water, a flash of lightning. Now my father is gone, and my mother too, and I know that life is not at all a long process. “There’s still time.”īut that was long ago, when I was still young enough to believe those words of comfort. “Life’s a long process,” I would say, echoing my father’s reassurances. Suryakumar Yadav is the new Mr.NASHVILLE - Sometimes I remember how I tried to comfort my children when they encountered a setback or were disappointed that a dream they were nurturing had not yet come true.Daily Briefing: Loss and damage on COP27’s agenda stubble burning in Punjab and how to tackle pollution and more.South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol apologises for Halloween crush, vows justice.Mumbai News Live Updates: Gokhale Bridge closed to traffic from today Bharat Jodo Yatra to enter Maharashtra tonight.Adipurush release date pushed to June 2023, Om Raut releases statement: ‘We need to give more time…’.‘Crazy feeling’ to beat Novak Djokovic, says Paris champion Holger Rune.Confidence, anxiety and a scramble for votes two days before the midterms.Randhir Kapoor on Ranbir Kapoor-Alia Bhatt’s baby: ‘My brother Rishi Kapoor must be delighted in heaven’.You are my big brother, but I never fully got a chance to tell you, or to truly give you your flowers while you were here. You cared about the kids, the community, our culture and humanity. ![]() You cared about your family, your friends, your craft, your spirit. Through it all, you never lost sight of what you loved most. But the thing that hurts the most is that I now understand how much of a legend and hero YOU are. And whether you’ve known it or not…I’ve been watching, learning and constantly motivated by your greatness.Įverything you’ve given the world… the legends and heroes that you’ve shown us we are … will live on forever. You showed me how to be better, honor purpose, and create legacy. Since nearly the beginning of my career, starting with All My Children when I was 16 years old you paved the way for me. One of the last times we spoke, you said we were forever linked, and now the truth of that means more to me than ever. ![]()
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