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The Sky Is Falling! The Sky Is Falling!
One day, Chicken Little is pecking around in search of seeds when an acorn falls from a tree, striking the little unaware hen on the head.
BAM!
Startled, Chicken Little immediately assumes what hit her in the head is a piece of the sky and she immediately begins to panic.
Convinced that the world is ending, she sets out to inform the king.
This popular children’s fable is often interpreted as a warning against fear-mongering and the dangers of spreading false rumors.
Meanwhile, in another part of the realm . . . .
I’m melting.
I want to crawl out of my own skin, escape the torment of the heat, always pressing with insistence and intensity, draining my body of its essential fluids.
I want out of this heat.
I am not built for this heat.
But, then again: nobody is.
We are experiencing temperatures 6–8 degrees above the historical average.
In July/August, the hottest months of the climatological year.
If we experience these 6–8 degrees above the historical average in April . . . it feels like May or early June, and everybody is happy and floods all the parks and natural spaces…
