It’s Another Crisis, Another Attack on Freedom

Well, I dreamed of cigarettes on June 7. Not because I wanted them. I quit that stuff more than 10 years ago. I’m never going back. The likely impetus for my dream is that my chest feels like I just smoked a full pack. Most people in the Northeastern United States are saying the same thing on June 8. Everyone is coughing. Even the birds seem a bit short on song today.

The reason is, of course, the fires in Quebec, the smoke from which mysteriously made its way as far south as Virginia. The skies in New York were orange and mucky everywhere else. In a game of tennis, the ball seemed to evaporate into the air between plays, and that didn’t go well.  -- More...