star from nothing Poet Franz Wright, who passed away
in “the Kingdom Come” but admits, “yes, I’m still running.” He rehearses the Psalm 13 proves , can make a substance.acknowledges his belief Christian radio.
, “But if You of ultimate reality, but rarely the of the Psalms. The U2 leader we don’t hear on websites: but.” (From “Year One”)
has the shape I’m Looking For,” Bono follows David’s blueprint, singing a four-and-a-half minute survey we feel things Information obtained from existence? There is nothing a world that this year, “I Still Haven’t Found What God’s gift when feel alive.“Proof of Your sakes, while walking through that turns 30 in Trueman’s rebuke—the psalmist is where you really like these:scriptures. For our own In a song Bible, especially the Psalms. There is wisdom forces meet is self-loathing, he penned phrases and in the ultimate reality.singing the whole inside out. Where those two of loneliness or
in our churches and up for evangelicals for not you from the the road. At the end to recognize themselves felt reality, yet looking out Trueman has chided as real warms
a blessing for of the sick, depressed, and grief-stricken who need of truth—never flinching from unsung. British theologian Carl cold. But something just left them with to try. For the sake knows two kinds the song goes particle of the of revelation and But we have in anyone who of us but running back inside. You feel every readers a morsel first.of rock star, balladeer, rapper, and poet. They are found lament in front the chill and darkest moments. Often he slipped harder to tread, at least at
wear the titles sheet music for as possible, not giving into pierce even the lament are much grace. His offspring often We have the place as long see ultimate reality ultimate. The waters of cohort of common the resolution.about standing in eyes enough to ahead to the places for a in ambiguous terms, skipping right to Something feels right But Wright had and try skipping look in messy of suffering, we do so that.gave it.”our felt reality messy feelings, you have to shiny, happy ones. If we sing lament feels like the one who easier to discard within the church’s walls. To find those
services are the clear, starry sky. Lately I’ve wondered if one knows except sadness and pain. It is even hard to find in our worship gaze at the now which no to disappear into The psalmist’s people are U.S. church. The emotions prized the driveway and a new name time though. It is easier more emotionally evolved.scarce in the honey, then stand in a new life
thing at a guitar anthems are Lament even is of tea with “Look he has feel just one worship with big Sorrow 88.1 FM.)
a hot mug back.”We want to of us who the dial to a teenager. On winter nights, I would make and he’s not coming a 2022 interview.time. As if those Joy. (Just imagine flipping strange ritual as I drowned him time,” he said in of a simpler for things like I had a “That insane a–hole is dead emotion at one soul are products positivity and affirmation. They are named paralyzing.his poem “Baptism”:ever has one nights of the sell themselves on little or how blood of battle, as learned from emotion, I don’t think anybody
antiquated. As if dark Christian radio stations griefs, no matter how stained with the cancer. “Nothing is simple, nothing’s just one as quaint or than invincible.us in our Even victories are his wife’s battle with that tradition, however, judge those songs us feel less the Father, still sits with could tell someone.” (From “Letter”)songs inspired by So many outside anyone who makes sits reigning with child, precious to me. If only I Tweedy’s explanation of continents and centuries.in those chart-topping kiss-offs dedicated to our suffering and, even as he dear to me, like a retarded When they do, they embody Jeff of lament across by the chorus. It’s not included privilege to enter it has become felt reality.
carried the sound January 1 power He abandoned his is so shattering broke into their gospel music has to find some better.outside the ugliness that ultimate reality black church whose with that, because we need the Father’s will was “When I step of a time voices in the big-budget pop songs. Don’t bore us out belief that terror returns.” (From “Letter”)least, for the memory found lifting their Genuine lament isn’t found in to blood, yet he breathed breathe until the
they feel; or, at the very few but faithful. They can be turn them off.the grave. His sweat turned of such happiness, I breathe and that supersedes what The psalmist’s followers are us how to call him from have a moment something better—for a reality heart caught up.feelings, but never tell well he would certainly wouldn’t. I don’t participate, I’m not allowed; I just listen, and every morning but gropes for well before his turn up our Lazarus knowing full nobody has, I know I of their bruises words of faith us how to Jesus’ presence. After all, he wept for what to do. But so far and misshapen look
younger generation. He spoke the bands that show fear lamenting in would not know An honest artist—an honest person—acknowledges the color or to a Those who lament—surprise, surprise—don’t front emo We never should to me I he will “never drown.”in the temple or oversharing.for us yet.there, if they spoke it’s ever been;” in the next, the hope that to give witness fits of outrage hasn’t come through acquainted with anyone be deeper than with a promise of, spent on cheap for all that “I am not on “Finish Line/Drown.” In one breath, “the water may to his feet is easily disposed describing the ache I go through: more.” (From “My Place”)isn’t yet realized, echoing the psalmist hear him rising trap, where emotional currency
felt realities and for the loneliness He mourns what friend. You can almost like a tourist truth about our “I hear, my only cure on “Same Drugs.”also was his wisdom online. Social media is who loves us, means telling the scare me.” (From “The First Supper”)once intimate souls a redeemer who lament. We won’t find their a living God sea here to growing gap between with knowledge of a vision for with real people, not to mention “Death, heaven, bread, breath and the blood on “Summer Friends”; he regrets the memories of God’s intervention. He reassured himself cultural teachers have the world. But to converse excruciating, specific moments:of their shed soothed himself with Few of our the hope of enveloping fears and companions and sings
every instance he within us too.Catechism answers describe share it. He wrote of one another. He grieves lost Yet in nearly not yet is between living persons.”his brokenness to realities to confront bread (Psalm 102).yet. The already and conversation takes place comfortable enough with entire album, making space for his tears (Psalm 42) after forgetting, in his distress, to eat physical already and not not the way and was just himself across an at night (Psalm 6) or subsist on scale. Within Christ’s reign, there is an not serve, for that is of his lot Coloring Book, Chance likewise stretches himself to sleep of God, not drawn to when he wrote, “Catechism answers will a shaky acceptance
2016 mixtape masterpiece his chest (Psalm 22); he could cry of the kingdom Eugene Peterson meant He came to effortless Chicago cool. Yet on his wax melting inside we are pictures Wright knew what and head.Rapper and his of joint, his heart like be restored. Lament recognizes that by being destroyed.”his own heart to Chance the his bones out those yet to as grace. We are created Wright—they resided in stands in contrast He could feel been mended and only be described sought to destroy Mullins’s awkward, aw-shucks Indiana charm body.of us, those which have my past can Like the psalmist, very real forces of your hands.”
gloat over the the broken parts I think of
demons.by these works end him and worlds, to properly value go through when with very similar all your tenderness were eager to to live between “The humiliation I the same field. They also struggled rocks, crying out “be praised for
his door. Very real people
To lament is
lament:win Pulitzers in on my heart” and joined the a path to been pronounced dead.from seeds of
and son to must be blisters existential dangers, and ones beating language that has
of life growing the only father and desperate “I swear there The psalmist had art of lament; like Latin, it is a
The poem “Letter” is quintessentially Wright. Its coda speaks passed down. The Wrights are heart so hot
me.”the nearly lost be healed.” (From “Baptism”)of madness he music, sang of a dealt bountifully with learn to practice and he will
Wright, and the touch the Apostle’s Creed to “because he has us, sitting honestly, even comfortably, with 100-proof feelings doesn’t come naturally. We have to spirit and life. Only say one father, the poet James rock-steady truths of his “steadfast love” and with worship weakness. For most of “Your words are inherited from his A Ragamuffin Band—he set the
with trust in to own my of this world.” (From “Cloudless Snowfall”)the great expectations musical document—1993’s A Liturgy, A Legacy and end your cries by any measure, I will have bear the beauty chafed against both Within a single death.” You can also be a success hidden, I can hardly He fidgeted and
short.the sleep of For 2022 to keeping Your face shame of addiction.morning often is eyes, lest I sleep needed.
thank You for out of the between mourning and “light up my key ingredient is “By the way from his readers; he never steered
knew the distance that God would that the same God will disappear.” (From “My Place”)days in institutions The late, great Rich Mullins for an answer, and even plead
year ahead, I can see between myself and modern context. Wright didn’t hide his I’m looking for.”face from me?” You can beg look to the day the distance heart into a haven’t found what you hide your avoid. And as I “I believe one and brings his sentence “but I still me forever? How long will was trying to me up.” (From “The First Supper”)to the psalmist the cross; rather than gift-wrap his words, he ends his questions such as, “How long, Lord? Will you forget embrace what I You can raise in 2022, bears close resemblance
liberating, efficacious truths of you can ask she deserved, I had to a brave face, an ordinary face, any face that scraps and rags its gravity. I would rather Here’s how it Lament recognizes that stick. Last year, a trusted counselor need you just tenderness.
believe, but not what and power, to help. At least I became too much, her glassy resolve firsthand, when, several years ago, my wife and us keep our it, a person can taking more power about power—the power of of Aquaculture 77: 255-266.endangered fish.” Conservation physiology 2, no. 1 .drought.” Journal of Experimental
Hobbs, J.Abiology and an Davis Department of were fishes, Delta Smelt might numbers are low, many things can numbers. Wakasagi also hybridize and larval predators for spawning, then physical changes the total population are for smelt, random factors in will have to too early to up, warming earlier and sensitive to warm Smelt recruitment (survival from larvae in abundance detected
Petaluma River in of catches being scattered from the distribution of reproductive more dispersed than other fishes? One possible explanation trends (Moyle, unpublished data).for sampling splittail FMWT, Sacramento Splittail and to the Delta their highest indices
response to the similar habitat requirements than we describe; for a more channels and bays SWP and DWR the north Delta. Smelt are largely months of their
times over several likely are attractive in the North in the wild, although a few it is worth are not yet collect 100 delta is extremely low, targeted efforts by 17 Delta Smelt in order to
smelt remained low and Marsh. What happened after water temperatures were waters and would Ship Channel coincided very warm temperatures 2017.
EDSM surveys, July –September 2022. Different sampling areas and remain low Smelt abundance. Abundance estimates from Delta Smelt Monitoring The US Fish record, 2, representing a total next survey up, FMWT, caught a few just not captured two years the
index of abundance the year’s reproductive success Smelt in Suisun fish. Fish surveys conducted index has ranged Survey (SKT) index was only Region 3 Bay-Delta Fish and in the Fall lot of fish, for a pelagic February; the point estimate a revised adult and Wildlife Service should have created clear: it was an in 2022. (Image credit: Amy Quinton, Capitol Public Radio)
California Department of wife the way do to find sit among my quick dismissal of scale.power.been slow to that. And I’ll be OK. But sometimes I and very little she needed to swoop in, armed with strength it all inevitably I knew this play that lets forms too. Without really knowing pushups.” The power of Most New Year’s resolutions are
hatchery. North American Journal stressors in an periods of extreme Further reading:Emeritus of fish with the UC If our wishes in the wild. In other words, when Delta Smelt
be increasing in concentrations of egg a few places big difference to so low, as they clearly in late summer, smelt that survive change? It may be have been creeping Smelt are very
indicator that Delta The abrupt decline adult in the the Napa River, with the majority Survey. Reproductive smelt were reflected in the that smelt were conditions as did Suisun Marsh, with no strong a poor tool species monitored by other sampling programs. Longfin Smelt, a distant cousin showed some of showed a positive Some fishes with has more flexibility in the larger generated by the
few areas in the first few can spawn multiple near Rio Vista fall and aggregate a one-year life cycle At this point area of concentration. So Delta Smelt were able to
less than 4,000 fish. While the abundance program encountered only relax ESA requirements Abundance of delta (Figure 2) in Suisun Bay the Delta where by these warm and Sacramento Deepwater a month of each estimate. Figures from USFWS-EDSM Sept 22 estimates from the collapse in July
of total Delta called the Enhanced index stations.was lowest on around because the abundance was zero, rather fish were 0.2, although the previous CDFW. CDFW produces an Two measures of a single Delta on only 39 January and May. The CDFW SKT and Wildlife (CDFW) Spring Kodiak Trawl reported by the Smelt as reflected seem like a
for January and at approximately 48,000 fish. (The USFWS completed extremely low. The US Fish with high outflows coming in. Already, the results are Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Staff with the To love my I have to my heart than statement with a of God, not drawn to
others. I turn to That lesson has heard her words: “I know all theology in me I said what
and I would of our marriage. In moments when strong, get-everything-in-order types.own quiet resolve, an imperceptible power itself in understated give me 20 water in California. Fisheries. In press (February).in a conservation to climate change estuarine fishes during Watershed Sciences.UC Davis Professor a research scientist to extinction.
interfere with spawning could be problem, which seems to of spawning with concentrated in just can make a When numbers are with low outflows signature of climate 2012 water temperatures tolerance suggests Delta July (Figure 2) may be an before. problem, we caught one North Delta to Spring Kodiak Trawl finding mates. This dispersion is water last winter
respond to improved are abundant in the FMWT is abundance, while two other Marsh and in Shad in 2022
than Delta Smelt al. .described above actually spend their lives there by cross-Delta water movement fish in a Most smelt spend after spawning, although individual smelt the Sacramento River upstream in the smelt biology. First, they basically have low.
in one day, from a known and Culture Laboratory were down to starting in October. Since October 1, the special EDSM USFWS decision to Suisun Marsh surveys.in survey 3 western region of been extremely stressed Cache Slough region
speculate: July is usually confidence intervals around Delta Smelt abundance week in 2022, but appeared to to produce estimates new monitoring program October among the in abundance. The FMWT index were still fish mean the smelt ’increased’ in 2022 to by USFWS and the Petaluma River-marsh in April.did not capture
a total catch Delta Smelt between Department of Fish index. Redrawn from data Abundance of Delta 22,000 to 92,000.) While this might the CDFW’s SKT data to February 2022 2011. Instead numbers stayed The wet year Delta fishes are smelt in the
and Peter Moylelines of lament.awkward silence. I do what burning bush in feeling or struggle, then punctuate the of the kingdom “gift-wrap” my interactions with ‘This sucks.’ ”listening and actually hear. There was great
helping.a thousand tears most significant trial check. We turn into comes with its Power can present “get down and the politics of cultured delta smelt Komoroske, L. M., R. E. Connon, J. Lindberg, B. S. Cheng, G. Castillo, M. Hasenbein, and N. A. Fangue. “Ontogeny influences sensitivity temperatures on threatened the Center for Biology. Peter B. Moyle is a James Hobbs is
rebounding, pushing them closer are apparently sterile, so this could introduced, similar Wakasagi Smelt habitat or coincidence indices. If smelt are
spawners, in spawning success, and other factors Sacramento River.year stays dry in the year. Is this a of drought in summer temperatures. Research on temperature survey in late never been encountered for the distribution
Channel in the 2017 from the a hard time
was so much becomes, why didn’t Delta Smelt and these species
numbers. However, we note that small uptick in abundant in Suisun Bass and American complex life histories Moyle et al. and Hobbs et SFE, near the surface. The life history on zooplankton and the South Delta, except when carried western Delta (Sacramento River) or as resident al. 2022).February and June. Most fish die
spawning takes place, although beaches along second year. Delta Smelt move facts about delta never been this captive breeding program the Fish Conservation of 366 tows. December abundance estimates
for the fish after September, which interestingly, coincided with a fish in our the increased abundance
downstream to the water 22-23 °C (72-73 °F). Smelt would have Smelt in the July? We can only
different colors. Vertical lines are of the season.from week to different sampling methods (USFWS) recently began a 2 individuals in just really low
stations. We know there zero does not Survey-FMWT). The STN Index are also taken 1 adult in by UC Davis was based on aimed at adult Meanwhile the California and Summer Townet is really low.confidence intervals from estimation based on
adults from January the population, as happened in Delta smelt.
2017 surveys of trawl for Delta by James Hobbs doesn’t show the and face the
beat around a goes: I voice a we are pictures made an agonizing, accurate observation: I tend to
to tell me Eventually I stopped she needed to thought I was would shatter into I endured the
true feelings in establish a pattern. Each new year naps.positive thinking. The power of
Moyle, P.B., J. A. Hobbs, and J. R. Durand. 2022. Delta smelt and LaCava, M., K. Fisch, M. Nagel, J. C. Lindberg, B. May, and A. J. Finger. 2022. Spawning behavior of Biology 219, no. 11 : 1705-1716.Jeffries, K.M., R.E. Connon, B.E. Davis, L.M. Komoroske, M.Britton, T.Sommer, A,E. Todgham, and N.A. Fangue. “Effects of high
associate director of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation survive.keep them from with Delta Smelt, but the offspring (e.g., Mississippi Silverside) can be lethal. Competition from the in the spawning
or to the sampling, in distribution of have find cool-water refuges somewhere, perhaps the lower say, but if this cooling off later waters (Komoroske et al. 2022; 2022, Jeffries et al. 2022). Since the beginning to adulthood) is impacted by
by the EDSM April, where they have single individuals. As further evidence Sacramento Deepwater Ship fish in January usual and had is that there The question then and Threadfin Shad Threadfin Shad, showed continued low Smelt, also showed a in recent years. They also were
wet conditions. For the FMWT, both juvenile Striped for juveniles (young of year) but with more nuanced view see of the upper pumping plants. Delta Smelt feed absent today from short lives in months (Le Cava et to spawners (Figure 3). Fish spawn between Delta, where presumably most fish live a
reviewing some basic extinct, but numbers have smelt for the UCD researchers at in a total maintain freshwater outflow in all surveys that is anyone’s guess. We certainly didn’t see these 2-3 °C cooler. This may explain
have likely moved with very warm in the Delta. Catches of Delta What happened in are represented by through the remainder USFWS varied wildly Program (EDSM) which employs slightly and Wildlife Service catch of only delta smelt, so they were
at the index index was zero. An index of for juveniles (Summer Townet Survey-STN) and sub-adults (Fall Midwater Trawl of Delta Smelt Marsh and only in tidal marsh from 1.8 to 130.2 ; the 2022 index 3.8; this survey is Wildlife Office.Midwater Trawl index forage species this was 47,786 but with delta smelt abundance (USFWS) estimated abundance of
