I recently ran across the following article on Italian air quality:
I will say I did enjoy some nice breathing in Sorrento and Rome, for whatever reason. It is a little depressing to be back to this.
View of Addis from Entoto mountains, where I went a couple of weeks ago with ICS visiting performance artists Michelle and Carney from Poetry Alive!
But I guess we should be grateful that it’s not worse.
Our last visiting artist at ICS, children’s author Bruce Coville, tweeted this from Nouakchott, Mauritania:
Least favorite sentence of the day:”The air in this city has the third highest fecal content of any city in the world.”
— Bruce Coville (@brucecoville) February 20, 2013
Ew.
Lorna of Arabia 