Chapter 5 — Noticing

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.

— -

Chapter 5:

Email:

Dear Grandpa,

This week we didn’t have enough players to play our soccer game. We had to forfeit. Three of our Latinx players didn’t show up and didn’t answer texts, and two other players were out sick. Maybe it is like your dairy farm friends, and they just left because of all the racism. I don’t know. Nobody knows. Jeremy and I rode our bikes over to Marco’s house. He hasn’t been answering my texts. At his house, nobody was home. Their car was in the driveway, and there were toys on the lawn. It was just quiet. Weird.

Mom sent money to an online campaign for the firefighters in Montana. She said that ever since the PFL cut the Federal budget for non-military branches, the bulk of the firefighters have been volunteers and prison labor. I didn’t know that! I told Mom she could send some of my money, too. I don’t have a credit card, but I gave her some cash that I had earned mowing our neighbor’s lawn, and she put an extra $20 in the online fund. They are not even asking for money for the firefighters. They are asking for money for the fuel and fire retardant for the airplanes. That makes me so mad! If we…