You’re reading The Husk's Friday edition, our Weekender, a countdown/roundup of miscellanea from Micronesia, Guam, and Earth.

It’s still Friday the 13th for some of you so these ominous headlines might be fitting. ¹

…superstitions. I kind of really enjoy superstitions from the islands so I’d love to hear about superstitions you grew up with. Here are three that were instilled in me:

• Did you have a dream of your teeth falling out? That means someone’s going to die. There are a lot of superstitions that I learned growing up as a kid that indicated someone would die which terrified me. So I harbor a fair amount of irrational fears, like dreaming about my teeth falling out.

• For some reason, my parents taught me not to put luggage on the ground when leaving the house for a trip. So basically you had to haul it from the house to the car, similar to a game of the floor is lava. But once you get to the airport it’s fine to put on the ground because????? I am not entirely sure why this was prohibited in our household, but I have my suspicions. (Namely: We do this to prevent someone from dying.)

• There’s this one bird I don’t know the name of but it has yellow feet and I learned that if you see it flying around your house, beware. Someone is going to die.

…climate change stories

• A body in a barrel surfaced in Lake Mead in Las Vegas. Water levels have decreased, concerning climate scientists. Per the LA Times, investigators suspect the remains were from 40 years ago.

• A new report from the U.K. Met Office came with harrowing news. Fortune wrote about the report. This is their headline: There’s a 50-50 chance we’ll exceed a doomsday climate threshold in the next 5 years

  • …yikes. Read the article without the paywall here: https://archive.md/tZvX0

…major paradox poor families on Guam are facing

• Once again, The Guam Daily Post is doing the important work of reporting on the struggles of trying live on Guam.² They’ve written about the increasing cost of living and this week published a report that, I think, should be sounding alarms for all island leaders. This is something to be frightened about on Friday the 13th.

  • Joleen Toves writes about families who avail of federal rent relief funds but who are evicted or turned away by landlords. A program that is intended to ensure people have a roof over their heads during this pandemic has, in effect, displaced them.

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