!Rain
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agk's diary 
30 October 2023 @ 05:19 UTC
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written on Pinephone
in a house with running water and electricity,
high-speed internet, and plenty of food
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It's been unseasonably warm. First daughter picked
and ate a tomato from our plants that'll be killed
by frost this week. She played in the creek among
fallen leaves. Headlamp on her bike helmet, she
walked in a wild cave with me.

With siege & explosive power equivalent to the bomb
my country dropped on Hiroshima, Israel killed more
children in 3 weeks than all conflicts--including in
Ukraine, Yemen, & Tigray--killed in 4 years. My
country flies in more bombs & missiles daily, vetoed
4 ceasefires supported by nearly all governments &
most of our citizens. Maybe Hezbollah can stop this
holocaust.

Rain fell where I live, alleviating the drought a
little. Roundstone River still ends abruptly at the 
sinks, its downstream bed a dry highway of pebbles &
sand. I lay awake, listened to rain drum on the
tent. No drones buzzed, no explosions lit the night
sky. First daughter slept beautifully, alive & un-
troubled, on sheepskin next to me.