INSIDE WEEK OF JUNE 6-12, 2013 www.FloridaWeekly.com Vol. III, No. 35 • FREE What to Important Storm Pets need a Costliest eat numbers timeline plan too storms SPECIAL HURRICANE ISSUE: A12 A14 A14 A16 A16 Tale from Ireland Dramaworks scores with heartfelt “Lughnasa.” A29 w 2013 LOOKS BUSY BY MIKE LYONS Severe Weather Expert, WPBF 25 HERE WE GO AGAIN! ANOTHER HURRICANE season is upon us and it looks like another active year in the tropics. Dr. William Gray of Colorado State Uni- SOCIETY/NETWORKING versity, who pioneered seasonal hurricane See who was out and about in forecasts more than 25 years ago, predicts 18 Palm Beach County. A20-21, 37 w named storms this year, nine hurricanes and four major hurricanes. That compares to the long-term average of 12 storms, six hurricanes and two major hurricanes. “The tropical Atlantic has anomalously warmed over the past several months, and it appears that the chances of an El Niño event this summer and fall are unlikely,” said Dr. Gray. 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Aspen or Grindelwald, or dive the Great If you’re a farmer, kiss the fields with ■ The morning swim. Pitch yourself off Barrier Reef. A week at The Breakers-Palm youry nurture. If you’re a parent or a teach- the beach or into the river, near sunrise. Beach, or The Ritz-Carlton-Naples, or the If you’re planning on dying anytime er, do the same with your children. If Nothing else reveals the promise of June Gasparilla Inn on Boca Grande. soon, don’t do it now, in June. you’re an accountant, kiss the books with like a morning swim. All lovely, but all certain to separate Pick July, or make it an August plan — right numbers. If you’re a lawyer or a doc- ■ The longest light day, June 21. Spend you from what you are at heart: a Florida pick another year or decade, if you can. tor, kiss the law with clear reason or the the summer equinox watching daylight homey branded by a dead Roman with just But not now when time grows giddy, patient with clean health. Don’t wait; do stretch toward umber dusk. “Sumer is icu- two unequivocal words: carpe diem! when spring breath blows summer hot and it now. men in,” wrote a medieval poet. Especially Hence my list. dreaming might be doing. It’s June, it’s time to speak, to kiss, to in Florida. So let me leave you with that, along with Now it’s time to speak. Now even words, act out. ■ The lunar night watch, June 23. Spend a couple of reminders that you should get like snow-melt streams sighing seaward My own suggestions for acting out are the full-moon midnight watching liquid to it now, one of these days in June while from somewhere high, come dressed in the earthy ones, the free of charge, the silver pour from a pitcher universe, like time still flies. light-washed finery, in greens and golds sensuous and elemental reminders of our a lunatic. “The lunatic, the lover and the After all, said Andrew Marvel, “The that bear this simple message: Speak, then assignment to the temporal, beyond which poet/are of imagination all compact,” grave’s a fine and private place/But none I forever hold your peace. But speak now, lies no time at all. wrote Shakespeare. Especially in Florida. think do there embrace.” in June. At the very least, let me recommend ■ The overheat. And finally this: Give And planning for another time, warned Love is seasonless, but its kisses are not. these six simple Junings: yourself one hard hour’s labor, one long Robert Burns, will put you at grave risk: Love is timeless, but its caresses are June. ■ The rain walk. Pick a park or for- day’s work, a physical assault to flood your “The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men/ This is summer’s gilded entrance, when ested place in a rainstorm’s path, go into hammering pump with June, then wash Gang aft agley/An’ lea’e us naught but grief May’s polite flirtations boil into yearning. the trees, and sit — simply sit. Listen and the effluent out your pores. I recommend an’ pain/For promised joy.” “June is not about anything you have to breathe. Let the hard summer torrent clean driving railroad spikes, or sinking fence But if you choose to ignore my list, if do but everything you want to do,” says your life of anything but water and woods. posts, or chopping wood to overheat, but you wait to live for another summer time, my wife, Amy. “It’s summer. It’s all about If you don’t think that can happen, try it. if you won’t do that, then run, bike or walk then I give you this: incandescent desire desire.” ■ The night chorus. Stop near woods until you can’t. and good company, like those embraced by The Romans, compelled to order the in a late June dusk. Close your eyes, cup Those six recommendations, those Jun- Arthur Symons. world according to their desires, offered your ears and listen again — this time to ings, are essential for living here in full. But That Welsh writer knew June. Here is us the words of their poet, Horace: “Carpe one of the most astounding vocal ensem- they probably don’t appear on your bucket the second of two stanzas from his poem, diem!” bles in North America. The Southern, the list of things to do before you die, do they? “In Fountain Court:” A June lover, Horace set that jeweled spadefoot, and the narrow-mouthed toads Your trip to Europe or New York City A waiting ghost in the blue sky, phrase in a crown of Latin: …sapias vina all join their brethren frogs to sing the or the Hawaiian Islands. The pilgrimage to the white curved moon; liques et spatio brevi spem longam rese- summer gospel — the Southern leopard, Notre Dame or the Taj Mahal or Machu Pic- June, hushed and breathless, waits, and I ces. Dum loquimur fugerit invida aetas. the spring peeper, the chorus frog and a chu. A retreat to Tennessee or North Caro- Wait too, with June; Carpe diem, quam minimum credula pos- quartet of natives in the trees (the bird- lina. 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