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Estuary at Stewart, BC
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The bridge in Riverside Park, Guelph ON.
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Along the Yellowhead Highway near Edson, AB.
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Butterfly Conservatory, Cambridge ON.
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Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home, Guelph, ON.
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Dying to get a winter coat
An engineering professor at the University of British Columbia has set a project for his first-year students. He wants them to come up with a design that will prevent people from falling into used clothing donation boxes. Too many of our poor and homeless population are dying to get a warm coat. According to a January 2 CTV news story , he wants to retrofit the existing bins because removing the 6,000 bins in BC would cost millions. Then there’d be a problem of storing them somewhere, which would just add to the cost. The money would be much better spent on poverty relief. But
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The year I had in 2018
When you get to my age you can make a resolution to give up new year’s resolutions. The chances of anything getting better fade away as the years fade away. It’s all pretty good as it is. Or good enough. There’s not much room for improvement any more. Or any expectation of it. I’m not looking at the big picture here. I’m trying to lose interest in Donald Trump. He’s being himself and there isn’t much hope for his country until they find a way to keep the likes of him on the outside looking in. His crimes and misdemeanors might catch up to him
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Poverty is not an emergency
On Christmas Eve, Lynne and I watched the Alastair Sim version of A Christmas Carol. It’s something we try to do every year. It is based on a novel Charles Dickens wrote in 1843 and has a lot to do with poverty. Early in the story, a pair of bleeding-heart liberals come to Ebenezer Scrooge’s office raising money for poverty relief. Are there no prisons? Scrooge asks. Are there no workhouses? He sends them away empty-handed. Later, the Ghost of Christmas Present shows him two starving children. The boy is Ignorance, the ghost tells Scrooge, and the girl is Want. Society should beware them both,
Different sides of Glasgow
This evening I finished sorting through my photographs from my week in Glasgow and posted them to my SmugMug photography blog. There are many different sides to the city, and
Book Review: Stephanie Land, Maid: hard work, low pay and a mother’s will to survive. Hachette Books, 2019
Everyone has a story to tell and people with few physical possessions often have several. Stephanie Land has written her story into a memoir tracing her journey through the poverty