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As part of our new Communion Letters series, we received an e-mail from Shakura:

In 1987 I was driving from Sedona, Arizona to Laguna Beach on what is called the “Carefree Hwy.” It was a newly paved two lane highway at that time, and it was mid-summer. Just after taking the turn onto the highway, I stopped to ask a trucker if I was on the right road. After he confirmed this, he cautioned me to be extremely careful should I have to get out of my car. He explained that rattlesnakes liked to cool themselves on the pavement at night and many truckers had been bitten when stepping out of their trucks.
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Diets and diet pills affect our bodies, when the problem is really in our brains. But now, for everyone who has despaired of ever losing weight, scientists have discovered two “magic bullets” that work on our brain circuits. One helps you stop smoking and cuts your bad cholesterol too (the perfect drug!), while the other one works by using a hormone inside your own fat to rewire your brain so you’re not hungry.
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65 million years ago, dinosaurs experienced bad weather and an asteroid impact, but scientists say their real problem was too many males for the number of females. They think that the sex of dinosaurs, like crocodiles today, depended on the temperature the day they were born. Debris from the asteroid impact blocked the sun and cooled down the climate, leading to the birth of too many males.
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Global warming brings flooding?and droughts. It all depends on where you live. The Western U.S. and the West Coast will continue to have droughts, due to lack of snow melt and a drop in rainfall. Meanwhile, massive flooding is predicted for the U.K. And now we know that the ocean rises higher on the coasts than it does in the “middle,” making things even worse.
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