Chapter 3 — A Hat Like Grandpa’s

A serial novel in the form of correspondence among a family while the world as we know it collapses around us. I recommend you start at the Introduction:

https://medium.com/climate-for-change/climate-for-change-introduction-5331d5ab9313

But you can start anywhere you want.

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Chapter 3:

Email from Carol/Mom:

Dear Benjamin,

It was so great to see you and Mel last weekend. I can’t believe how tan you’ve gotten. Have you ever heard of sunscreen? I went online and ordered you a very big sun hat. It should come this week. Very stylish. Wear it. I was pleased with how proud you and Mel were to show me all the work you have done. My favorite part was when you showed me the compost pile that you turned using the front end loader of the tractor. When you dug in there with your bare hand to pull out some steaming hot compost, my little mother’s heart swelled up in pride.

Grandpa and Grandma are getting a little too used to having you two around. I think I have never seen their barn so clean nor their garden so abundant. Although we haven’t had much rain this summer, that garden looks like an oasis of green. Thanks for sending me home with all those green beans. I’m going to blanch and freeze them for our winter meals. It will be great eating them after there is snow on the ground and the garden is a memory.