Merci, Jack.

"Love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world." - Jack Layton

Welcoming new regulars...

...including rad_sanatorium today! Not sure what there is beyond the "urban exploration" interest tag that we might have in common, and your photography of what looks to me like the ruins of Chernobyl is scary-haunting...but hopefully, we get to find out and enjoy the consequences.

A good citizen?

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.

Chase at Rideau Library

Chase at Rideau Library, a photo by dwight_ew on Flickr.

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