If It Can’t Possibly be Both, then Either Give us Masks OR Accommodations
If masks are a choice, then shouldn’t being protected from a virus also be a choice?? The freedom to go maskless is butting up against the freedom from getting infected,…
Marie Snyder
Trapped by our Insouciance
George Monbiot’s article today is the perfect rant for our times. It’s pretty much what I’ve been screaming into the void for the past while, but, thankfully, he has a…
It’s Going to Get Worse Before it Gets Even More Worse
Times are dark. Try to find moments of calm and humour to get you through the day. Covid is out of control. It’s nothing new, but more and more are…
Manufacturing Consent to Spread SARS-CoV-2
Like the political/media machine convinced citizens that invading Iraq was necessary, we’re being convinced to spread a virus that will come back to destroy our own lives. Yesterday, Arijit Chakravarty,…
The Conflict
If I were explaining it all to a class of 15-18 year olds, here’s what I would say: my imperfect lesson with my own stance front and centre but wide…
It’s Like the Sun
I missed this back in August, but, while I keep seeing Orwell and Huxley in everything around us, Tern saw Joseph Heller: This is exactly the crazy-making that’s going on.…
I Needed This Today
Another curious human behaviour: Just by chance, I posted every day for over a week last May rather than my typical range of anywhere from one to twelve posts in…
Save David Tennant From Invasion!!
There are lots of horrific things going on in this world. Most are out of our control. One is not. There’s nothing I can do about the atrocities happening between…
Media Subterfuge
Want to be a respected news outlet? Stop writing horribly misleading headlines. An article in The Guardian is causing a stir, not because of what the article says, but because…
Faulty Wiring
We’re hard-wired for immediate survival, so we need reminders to help us persevere longterm. Short-Term Wiring For decades I taught a course, the Challenge of Change in Society, which used…
The Truth is Out There
Because it’s harder than ever to discern fact from fiction means we have to work harder. Don’t give up! Definitely not an example of Art Deco. I once dated a…
Breathe, Grieve, Love, Repeat
We have very little direct influence over one another but we do affect one another in myriad ways that we often don’t even notice. I had a student once, about…
Christian Priorities
One for the Christian right. Sexual impurity was a two-fold concern in the ancient olden days. First, it was to ensure that everyone’s spreading their seed in fertile ground, instructing…
Accepting the Things We Cannot Change – Yet
We’re really struggling to let go of our old familiar lives and realize we have to life differently from now on in order to keep going. It’s a bit like…
Goal Setting Feels Very Different Now!
I’ve been thinking about that goal-setting exercise they had us do in school: Divide a piece of paper in three and write 20, 5, and Bang at the top of…
Ignorance is No Longer a Defence
There is compelling evidence that vaccines work, with few serious side effects, yet they’re still being demonized while media continues to suggest Covid ended. An Australian 8-year-old went into cardiac…
Covid, the T-Shirt
Last March I had the funniest experience as a trustee. We were required to attend a seminar about creating inclusive classrooms where everyone can feel comfortable belonging, about mental health…
Courage to Admit our Mistakes
Translation from Maarten De Cock “Many people know, from unfortunate experience, and doctors recognize that most contagious diseases are communicated by breathing the air that comes out of the chest…
On a New Path
Is this year different, or is this the new trajectory we’re on to the very end? The Climate Brink collected a series of unnerving graphs showing what an outlier this…
We are ALL the Immunocompromised!
Since Covid affects the immune system, everyone who has ever had it has a significant change of being immunocompromised now! Dr. Gary Payinda noticed, “Some viruses, which used to cause…