One More December

I'm getting help. It's sporadic, scattershot, but I'm getting help.

The new glasses are good. Unemployment insurance is helpful. I'm still looking for steady work and people are trying to help me with that too.

That writing workshop with Sandy Hill Community Health Centre and the Toronto Writers' Collective is helping keep my writing skills in practice AND maintaining whatever mental health I still have.

Also, I have a volunteer project, helping the Canadian Conrunners mailing list members organize a Discord server for real-time conversations at need now. I think I mentioned this a few days ago?

Disorientation re: time passage in action just now, right?

More on several topics,

Housing Insecurity

Yes. This is the true name of a real problem right now.

Listening to a discussion on The Current of how to solve homelessness and being close to that state for more people.

ASTRONOMY: Arecibo Collapse

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/12/arecibo-radio-telescope-in-puerto-rico-collapses/

My opinion: the facility should be rebuilt, to the best standards now available. The campaign to rebuild was already starting up when the announcement of plans to decommission the telescope was made, after all. We just need to keep moving on that project.

Greetings to Porvoo, Suomi/Finland!

Good to see someone dropping into this blog from there, however briefly! Thank you for letting yourself be seen!

Critical Tourism Maps

mcwetboy pointed this out:

https://www.maproomblog.com/2020/12/critical-tourist-map-of-oslo/

Pointing us to here:

https://markusmoestue.no/Criticaltouristmap.html

And then I remembered a "social safety net" map of Regina from a few years earlier. I don't recall the URL at the moment, and I worry that it may have been removed..

We should have something similar for our own cities if we don't already have it.

How DO we "build back better"?

I'm listening to this installment of Ideas on CBC Radio One as I type this:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/in-a-covid-divided-world-how-to-avoid-drift-into-a-new-normal-1.5823611

Some of you are already working on your ideas of building a better "normal" than we had before the Pandemic in Progress, I know...