With
this momentous event in mind, we were tasked with making something rather special, a «birthday cake», not I hasten to add that the CCC cakes aren't always special.
That REM lyric has come to
mind several times
in recent days as the occasional friend or Dot Earth reader has described the spate of devastating floods, heat waves and fires, giant icebergs and other disruptive
events as a sign that some
momentous unraveling is beginning.