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#WaterYear 261
Today is Juneteenth & June is Black Music Month. As the Smithsonian @si_africanart podcast says: "All music is Black music" - & that is certainly true of rock.
A 🧵on the Black music roots of rock - and the role of a river flood
@rockhall on L. Erie in CLE, OH
Today is Juneteenth & June is Black Music Month. As the Smithsonian @si_africanart podcast says: "All music is Black music" - & that is certainly true of rock.
A 🧵on the Black music roots of rock - and the role of a river flood
@rockhall on L. Erie in CLE, OH
2/ When the Levees Broke: the flood that made rock and roll.
In 1927, an epic flood on the Mississippi River killed hundreds & wreaked massive property damage. But in its wake of destruction, that flood created rock ‘n’ roll.
(🧵adapted from this essay) grist.org/article/2011-0…
In 1927, an epic flood on the Mississippi River killed hundreds & wreaked massive property damage. But in its wake of destruction, that flood created rock ‘n’ roll.
(🧵adapted from this essay) grist.org/article/2011-0…
3/ To be fair, rock ‘n’ roll, like the Mississippi, is a seriously big river, one with many tributaries that converged to form its still-shifting channel. But one of its tributaries — and perhaps the essential one, with a gritty, longing, shuffling beat...
#WaterYear 124
1/10
Today is birthday of 2 great writers of powerful reflections on rivers:
Langston Hughes (1901 - 1967)
Jason Isbell (b. 1979)
A thread on their words on rivers, including "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (1921) and "River" 99 years later
(photo: Irrawaddy 2016)
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Today is birthday of 2 great writers of powerful reflections on rivers:
Langston Hughes (1901 - 1967)
Jason Isbell (b. 1979)
A thread on their words on rivers, including "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (1921) and "River" 99 years later
(photo: Irrawaddy 2016)
2/10
Hughes wrote "A Negro Speaks of Rivers" when he was 17 after he crossed the Mississippi while traveling from his home in Cleveland OH to visit his father who was living in Mexico. Published in 1921 in The Crisis, it marks start of his literary career
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Negro…
Hughes wrote "A Negro Speaks of Rivers" when he was 17 after he crossed the Mississippi while traveling from his home in Cleveland OH to visit his father who was living in Mexico. Published in 1921 in The Crisis, it marks start of his literary career
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Negro…
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I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers
I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon
I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers
I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon
#WaterYear 123
1/5
Rafts, rainbow, & dark clouds looming, Colorado River, 2009
Due to decades of historic drought, Lakes Mead & Powell, 2 largest reservoirs in US, are approx 3/4 empty. Fed gov't gave deadline of today for 7 states that depend on Colorado 💧 to reach consensus
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Rafts, rainbow, & dark clouds looming, Colorado River, 2009
Due to decades of historic drought, Lakes Mead & Powell, 2 largest reservoirs in US, are approx 3/4 empty. Fed gov't gave deadline of today for 7 states that depend on Colorado 💧 to reach consensus
2/5
...on substantial cuts to their water use;
"Federal officials in June called for the seven states to come up with plans to drastically reduce water diversions by 2 million to 4 million acre-feet per year, a reduction of roughly 15% to 25%."
latimes.com/environment/st….
...on substantial cuts to their water use;
"Federal officials in June called for the seven states to come up with plans to drastically reduce water diversions by 2 million to 4 million acre-feet per year, a reduction of roughly 15% to 25%."
latimes.com/environment/st….
3/5
Today they missed the deadline.
"not reaching a consensus carried the risk of having the federal government alone determine how to eventually impose cuts."
apnews.com/article/politi…
Today they missed the deadline.
"not reaching a consensus carried the risk of having the federal government alone determine how to eventually impose cuts."
apnews.com/article/politi…
#WaterYear 122
1/10
Luca @ an ice wall near Chagrin River in 2008. Just rocks today at end of January, 2023
"Enjoy the weather but worry for the climate"
A short thread on this warm winter, from no ice on Lake Erie to no snow in NYC
(weather/climate quote frm @JesseJenkins)
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Luca @ an ice wall near Chagrin River in 2008. Just rocks today at end of January, 2023
"Enjoy the weather but worry for the climate"
A short thread on this warm winter, from no ice on Lake Erie to no snow in NYC
(weather/climate quote frm @JesseJenkins)
2/10
New York City just broke record for latest measurable snowfall (previous record was January 29, 1973) and will soon break record for longest stretch without snow (332 days, set in Dec. 2020) - and no snow in 10-day forecast...
nytimes.com/2023/01/29/nyr…
New York City just broke record for latest measurable snowfall (previous record was January 29, 1973) and will soon break record for longest stretch without snow (332 days, set in Dec. 2020) - and no snow in 10-day forecast...
nytimes.com/2023/01/29/nyr…
3/10
Snowfall in Ohio is near record lows; only 9 inches so far for Cleveland compared to an average of 28 inches that normally falls by late January
cleveland.com/weather/2023/0…
Snowfall in Ohio is near record lows; only 9 inches so far for Cleveland compared to an average of 28 inches that normally falls by late January
cleveland.com/weather/2023/0…
