2025 Life Logs, Day 293: Gale Force Winds and Shifting Tides
Date: Monday, October 20, 2025
Weather: Rain and Gale Force Winds; High Temp 64, Low 59 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue with My Shadow, Falmouth, MA
The gale force winds of earlier today were on the low end of the scale, but still gale force which means windy. Often, here on Cape Cod, the winds are from the NE. But during this weather system, the winds were coming from the south, so it was warmer today than it has been. Tonight, the winds are down and there is just a Small Craft Advisory. And tomorrow is forecast to be sunny. So one day of sunshine before it rains again.
“Shifting Tides” had nothing to do with the weather today. It is the name of a short documentary film that was shown tonight by the Falmouth Climate Action Network (FalCan). The filmmaker, Angela McNerney, was at the screening tonight, along with Lyra Brennan, Director of the Mass Audubon Coastal Waterbird Program, and Dr. Charles “Stormy” Mayo, co-founder of the Center for Coastal Studies. The film was beautiful, but I found it certainly didn’t move me to take any action. McNerney says that she did the film to give people hope. But hope is not a strategy. Research shows that taking action, getting involved, is what will give you hope. This is true whether you are talking about fighting back against an authoritarian take-over of your government or against those who dismiss climate change altogether. Again, my two cents.
