I got a Weather Channel app for my new Iphone5 because anybody with a farm needs to know what the weather is, but I thought of scrapping it, as I have already deleted Twitter and CNN because they send me alerts all the time about things I don’t want to know about. That’ s my smartphone rule – anything that bongs or sends me alerts gets deleted. It’s invasive and annoying for me. I got a weather alert this morning warming me of “severe wind alerts,” downed trees, interrupted power, danger to people and animals, be prepared.

I got another message from a shaman inviting me to a solstice party, telling me her power was out and urging me to look out for r rainbows. Global warming has created some very serious weather, and I respect the need to pay attention to storms like Hurricane Sandy. But the weather channel is now naming winter storms to make them more frightening and to make it easier to market them. I will continue to look out for rainbows when the wind comes. And I just deleted the Weather Channel.