calling fireflies

March 14, 2010

the mouth that
praised Amida Buddha
calling fireflies

A brief comment… The most alarming environmental change since my childhood is not even the relative disappearance of Christmastime snow– it’s the near-total disappearance of fireflies (or lightning bugs, as we called them in my region). They used to arise by the thousands on one specific summer night, in June I believe.

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