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My dad was out-of-town on the Fourth, but there were fireworks yesterday, on the seventh. I have no idea why.
So we drove a good ways, and then parked the car and walked another good ways. The "viewing area" was near a small carnival and an outdoor music stage.
My little sister, my little brother, and my sister's friend each bought three tickets and went on rides. I bought cotton candy.
While I, too am fascinated by colorful lights and loud sounds, the thing about fireworks that interests me is what they leave behind. The smoke, like vast spiky sea creatures, with a little blob of a nucleus and impossibly long, trailing tentacles. They blow away very quickly and are difficult to see.
Fireworks also make me a bit uneasy, being afraid of burning and all. I don't like how resources are spent with so little thought. The atmosphere is deteriorating rapidly, and nobody cares beyond the next year.
But I can't do anything for the environment. Just give money that I don't have, just pick trash off the polluted street. It's depressing. I don't want to think about it.
So we drove a good ways, and then parked the car and walked another good ways. The "viewing area" was near a small carnival and an outdoor music stage.
My little sister, my little brother, and my sister's friend each bought three tickets and went on rides. I bought cotton candy.
While I, too am fascinated by colorful lights and loud sounds, the thing about fireworks that interests me is what they leave behind. The smoke, like vast spiky sea creatures, with a little blob of a nucleus and impossibly long, trailing tentacles. They blow away very quickly and are difficult to see.
Fireworks also make me a bit uneasy, being afraid of burning and all. I don't like how resources are spent with so little thought. The atmosphere is deteriorating rapidly, and nobody cares beyond the next year.
But I can't do anything for the environment. Just give money that I don't have, just pick trash off the polluted street. It's depressing. I don't want to think about it.
