calamity

They materialize in the kitchen year after year, radiating earnest goodwill, and yet somehow leave a trail of small calamities in their wake.

Microplastics are the current bete noire and rightly so, but we’re still in the dark about the causal calamity of a past era’s chemical polluting.

And not far from the park, an army of trees is being grown as a sort of insurance policy for such calamities.

“Or are people in her profession able to foresee such calamities and avoid them?”

As we slowly gained some civil rights, it seemed that both hope and calamity walked hand in hand.