Australian fires started 2020. Then came the threat of nuclear war with Iran. Chinese military jets have been buzzing American warships. Oh, and then there’s that little COVID-19 pandemic with an as yet uncertain outcome.

Next year could be even stranger when the 17 year cycle for cicadas delivers billions of the buzzing bug-eyed pests in a Biblical plague of dead baby beastly bodies.

I made the most of it two cycles ago when Sammy the Cicada and I spent a fabulous few hours together.

2020 is all about isolation. 2021 will be a noisy, crowded infestation.

Pick your poison. It’s going to be a bumpy decade.

Terry and his pet cicada (1987)@WHAS11 @840WHAS
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— Terry Meiners (@terrymeiners) June 19, 2017