Atlantic City was bustling and somewhat glamours when I was a kid. It had some type of forbidden allure. I remember skipping school and taking a bus there with a friend. We felt like outlaws in a dangerous, sinful place - we went to Catholic school! I’ve attended some excellent concerts there more recently but it now has an air of lost luster, of Don Rickles and Shecky Green. I pray it can be resuscitated - reinvented.
Sounds fun!! I haven't been there in forever and I only remember two places: a mall and a train station. And I have zero desire to ever return to either of those spots.
I would like to check out the boardwalk though. And if I ever hear of a climate conference happening in AC, I'd be there in a heartbeat.
Fascinating stuff. I hope that residents of the Jersey Shore can begin to organize themselves on a local level to prepare (tactically, politically, financially, spiritually) for the rising tide.
I think I want to start a climate change reading club. Given my current situation, I don’t really know what else I can do to take action, but that seems like the place to start.
I’m thinking of some words in Elizabeth Bishop’s poem One Art:
I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster.
The whole thing is tragic, but destruction is just a different way to think about creation. We’re about to have to learn how to live in a very different way from the way we live now. For young people on the Jersey Shore, that probably means somewhere else.
Atlantic City was bustling and somewhat glamours when I was a kid. It had some type of forbidden allure. I remember skipping school and taking a bus there with a friend. We felt like outlaws in a dangerous, sinful place - we went to Catholic school! I’ve attended some excellent concerts there more recently but it now has an air of lost luster, of Don Rickles and Shecky Green. I pray it can be resuscitated - reinvented.
Sounds fun!! I haven't been there in forever and I only remember two places: a mall and a train station. And I have zero desire to ever return to either of those spots.
I would like to check out the boardwalk though. And if I ever hear of a climate conference happening in AC, I'd be there in a heartbeat.
This is really something: https://imgur.com/bjV3bFd
Fascinating stuff. I hope that residents of the Jersey Shore can begin to organize themselves on a local level to prepare (tactically, politically, financially, spiritually) for the rising tide.
I think I want to start a climate change reading club. Given my current situation, I don’t really know what else I can do to take action, but that seems like the place to start.
I’m thinking of some words in Elizabeth Bishop’s poem One Art:
The whole thing is tragic, but destruction is just a different way to think about creation. We’re about to have to learn how to live in a very different way from the way we live now. For young people on the Jersey Shore, that probably means somewhere else.