On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Closing line of "Under the Cloak of War":
"Some things can never be fixed. Only managed."
A lot of us are seeing that in different ways.

Ideas is replaying a defence of nihilism on CBC Radio One as I type this.

Meanwhile, I'm reading Rabble.ca articles.

Tomorrow, I hope to make time to resume work on a commission sketch. The reference materials sent to me for this one have been challenging reading. Somewhat more challenging to print out in a legible fashion.

These facts are not new:

We can't afford to not change. We can use this crisis to leverage positive changes. Some of us are in fact doing that work.

Listening to The Sunday Edition on the radio at the moment, hearing a discussion between Michael Enright and one of those people doing that work at a church-sermon level with the wider public, Charles Taylor.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/after-covid-19-we-will-have-the-mother-of-all-battles-over-the-future-of-the-planet-says-charles-taylor-1.5402452

For whatever help it gives anyone in my friendlist right now: tomorrow will be the 15th anniversary of my father's death. I still miss him, despite the passage of the years. The day remains the birthday of others whose well-being and wisdom I value. There is a balance in this.

I wish you good tidings, whatever you're celebrating or commemorating.

I've heard it attributed to the martial arts: "When the student is ready, the master will appear."

Would the reverse also be true?

Courtesy of Boston University's College of Fine Arts:

So. Winter continues regardless of what the groundhogs saw. Or didn't see.

Oh well...

...that I'm probably safer living in a world like this one, where such things are very rare and unskilled users aren't crashing themselves into shopping malls, office buildings, apartment towers and so on.

Much safer.

I'd still like to see those permanent settlements on the Moon, Mars and in the L-4 and L-5 points between Earth and the Moon, though.

Smartphones are filed under "nice to have while I wait for the space settlements".

After I announced via Facebook my intent to visit Parliament Hill today to join the Layton memorial/anniversary vigil, one of my friendlisters there gave praise: "You're a good citizen."

In honesty?

I'm not even sure that I qualify as a good human being yet, never mind being a good citizen. I'm troubled by any number of personal flaws remembered, whether remembered accurately or not. Some of you have been annoyed personally by those flaws, sometimes more than once. Some people have left my friendlists here and elsewhere as a result.

I'll admit to being a work in progress. There are good days and bad days. Sometimes, there are lukewarm days. Today's one of the lukewarm days. Hoping to do better. To be better.

In the meantime, thanks for your patience, your goodwill and your trust to the degree you've deemed right and proper so far.