Summary: Lily wants to earn a Silver Star, but to receive it each of the first-year angels have to earn ten points through doing good deeds. In order to earn some good deed points, Lily offers to take the mischevious twins, Ella and Bella, to Angel Holly, but they make it very difficult. On the way to Angel Holly they are distracted by Melody playing the flute. Melody is supposed to deliver a b…
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, "500-year" storms pummel communities month after month, and floods displace tens of millions annually. This is only…