: betwixt 'n between on a holiday monday :

... okay, so kids came home for the long weekend, and are leaving again. Today is drizzly wet, and we already did the turkey thing. Tomorrow is the Canadian election, and I don't know who to vote for ( yet. Here, or nationally ). There's stuff I could/should do for SBF, but not motivated to.

... actually craving a strong coffee, which I never, ever do after 8 am.

What I'd like to do on Thanksgiving Monday I can't today ... cut the lawn, smell leaves burning, enjoy a crisp October day, going for a walk around Rithet's Bog, or Beacon Hill Park, or Elk Lake. Maybe my funk is that, given the weather, it is painfully clear that not only is summer gone, and fall fading, but winter is coming? Yuck.

So today is just one of those betwixt 'n between days. On a micro level, on the macro level, on an middle level. Tons I should do, but no motivation to do them. Good thing this doesn't afflict me often! But today? Bummer ...

dlc

: back to one graphic, one comment :

Found this graphic on MarkC's site. Struck me ...

am I prone to creating big 'truths' manufactured from little lies?

dlc

: in case you're wondering, post-debate that is :

: the irony of thanksgiving and homelessness :

... over at 'The Weary Pilgrim' our buddy Ron Cole has asked for a little help with a Mustard Seed booth down at the Bay Centre during Victoria Homelessness Action Week, which is October 12 -19, and an initiative of the Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness.

This evening my friend Gerry B invited me to attend the GVCtEH awareness event described on the poster, and I am going to go. Partly because I have been very impressed by the blue ribbon team put together, and partly because the work they've done so far is impressive, and partly because ... well? I am tired of feeling helpless and myopic and suburban.

But I have to say, isn't it a little ironic that we come off Thanksgiving and right into Homelessness Action Week 2008? Maybe the timing is intentional. Maybe not. Maybe we'll blow right through a short week and on into mid-October without missing a beat. I hope not. Ron's observations are accurate, something is changing, for the worse, not better, and somehow we need to do something, be part of doing something, a solution ... not a bandaid, or a fix. God help us.

dlc

ps. I can rarely not do the PS thing ... but ABSO has 1,000's of 'toons, including one earlier this week, which seemed utterly appropriate :

Ron C added a few thoughts to yesterday's observations. You can read them here.

: seeing as posts are reduced to single photos :

... not that it makes any sense at all, but earth care and emissions and fuel economy and all that aside, if I was going to indulge in a hobby car it would be a 1969 Chev Camaro like this one ... colour and all. My dad had a '68 RS ( rally sport ), and once upon a time I had a red '77 LT ... but the blue '69 still takes the cake if you ask me.

dlc

: maybe my desk will explain a few things :

: no real reason ... 'cept i like visuals :