On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

My ego got a bit of a boost just now:

https://bsky.app/profile/davidmack.bsky.social/post/3kl3ozbfbzv2z

Strongly recommending you read Star Trek: Picard - Firewall by David Mack as soon as you can.

Some additional reasons for doing so mentioned here:

https://bsky.app/profile/davidmack.bsky.social/post/3kl472iyerk2f

I am thinking that I might have said "yes" if the local municipality had offered the job of "town grouch" to me. It might have been amusing for some time. I'm not entirely sure how much time I'd have spent being amused by living such a role.

She's got some thoughts fit for sharing widely here:

https://twitter.com/GailSimone/status/1417860766661693443?s=20

I didn't feel like travelling outside my neighbourhood today. But I needed the walking time, so I got it.

I see some of you reporting that you've gotten your first doses of whichever vaccine's been lined up for each of you.

Congratulations on still being here, and getting to this point. I hope to join your ranks in due time. My mother is likely to get hers first out of my immediate family, and given the present situation and the relevant statistics, I think that's as it should be.

It feels like incremental progress, creeping progress...and I worry about many of us - me included - falling into a new normal worse than I was expecting before the Pandemic. Despite the efforts of so many to build a better normal across the world's nations, which I see playing out via your blogging, and the news services I keep track of. Among other sources.

I'm not giving up.

I'm confessing to still worrying.

Going to keep writing, keep drawing, keep doing my photography. This is a promise I make to myself, with you as witnesses.

During the current round of culling going on at my place, I rediscovered this ribbon from twenty years ago. I think I was one of three people who was editing the Ottawa SF Society Statement newsletter that year...and there's the confirmation:

www.sfadb.com/Dwight_Williams

Me, Joel Polowin - AKA bunsen_h - and the late and still-beloved Sharon Fall co-owned that nomination for Fan Achievement (Organizational).

I had a moment.

If you grow up in a civil service family, everything to do with government comes back to your sense of identity sooner or later. Like it or not, want it or not. You are raised and trained in those terms. Your parents may not even realize it.

"All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again."

( A bit of personal confession... )