Saturday, December 23, 2006

December Lament

A graduate from a Hawaiian high school returns to the Islands to make an important decision. A senior going to that school has made hers.

Given her talent, intelligence, grace, and beauty (not to be discounted in a visual, celebrity-obsessed age) Michelle Wie could have gone to college anywhere. Stanford is on many top-five lists of major American universities, so it's a wise choice. However, if one of the factors in her decision is our warm weather--to quote Rick in Casablanca--she's been misinformed.

For the past several weeks the morning temperature's hovered around freezing. Frost is on the lawn, and the flowers that have survived previous winters are long dead. I run the furnace sparingly, but it will be difficult to keep the gas bill under $200 this month.

O globe, where is thy warming? © 2006 Stephen Yuen

Ice rink at Embarcadero Center

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