winter solstice 1, a tribute to steffen basho-junghans by buck curran.
HD video filmed on location in bergamo, italy on this day in 2023 by david james logan. the track was recorded using robbie basho's 12 string on the winter solstice 2022.
today (monday) the usual unleashing of the chickens but also horsemouth will go down and open up the abbey in the morning (and close it up in the evening). remind him to do this.
weatherwise it looks pretty good for the week (not warm but there's some sunshine at least).
'los angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse.. so the violence and the unpredictability of the santa ana affect the entire quality of life in los angeles, accentuate its impermanence, its unreliability. the winds shows us how close to the edge we are...' - joan didion in slouching towards bethlehem.
the archive of gary indiana is removed from his new york apartment, flown to LA and moved into a house (the next day it burns down). the fires threaten to burn down the houses of the german exiles (thomas mann's old house for example). mike davis returns from the grave to tell us of the end of agriculture (and of the importance of agriculture as firebreak) and to warn us against reading joan didion.
'there is no real way to deal with everything that we lose' said joan, in a different situation.
horsemouth has been taking a peek at joan's where I was from, her book about a wider california. joan was born in sacramento.
the winds may change direction. the situation may become worse. but the fires clear land for rebuilding. the governor clears away environmental laws that could limit that rebuilding. many people will not have had insurance (you are not legally obliged to have it if you don't have a mortgage) - so they will have no payout with which to rebuild. there will be a fire-sale (pardon the expression) of land assets.
and (of course) it will probably burn again.
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