The day before yesterday it rained hard, really hard.  In our neighborhood over two inches fell within an hour,  In the backyard, the green grass appeared faint and then disappeared under the surface of brown water.  At the side of our house, a creek flowed, threatening to become a river.  Water covering our and other yards sought the lowest point, obeying gravity, and topography in a mad flow into the Loch Lomond lake at the center of the subdivision.

The pressure of flowing ground water forced through the foundation of one side of the house, as it has done once before in a past flood.  Beach towels, fans and a heater were remembered remedies for a damp carpet, — as long as the damage is not too much.

What to do in a downpour, when Nature dispassionately obeys  cause and effect, the laws of physics: heat+evaporation+dew point and interfaces with a cold front?

One prays, and hopes that conditions soon run their course.

Yesterday, I heard that Supreme Court Anthony Kennedy, 81 years of age, is retiring.  Predictably, the President credited Kennedy’s decision to retire now, as an honor to himself, the President.  The President, oblivious to the logic of circumstances, could not see that Kennedy either retires now to spend some time with his family, or he dies on the job, with his time running out.

Tyrants always have a narcissistic logic of their own.

I visited the vegetable garden in the back yard this morning.  After the deluge and soaking, the plants are blossoming in abandon.  The blossoms are an elegant invitation to the pollinators, the bees and other insects that are a necessary link in the emergence of squash, cucumbers, and tomatoes.  I worry about the scarcity of bees.  On my brief visits to the garden, when I spend a few minutes weeding, I’ve yet to see a bee.

Is there a link between the diminished bee population, and the ascendancy of an imperious, rule-minded, hard-assed-attitude, dis-empathic, class of politician into offices of power in our country?  i think that there is.

What is to be done?  Among other things, –one prays.