Well, what do you know: Rain today but then we’re expected to get a week of sunshine. That’ll be wonderful!
Saturday, almost the whole day was spent dealing with Shaw cable because my TV stopped working. I won’t bore you with details about getting hung up on, hours of waiting and endless misdiagnoses. In the end, Shaw finally admitted it was their equipment and a technician is coming here tomorrow to get things back to normal.
And yesterday was trying in a different way: We had no power all day because Hydro was fixing something. They’d forewarned us but as with any change in routine, it affects me. My bloody f*ucked up brain is not happy with disorder or any change to my life.
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When I was a high school drama teacher, one of my most ideal students was a young man named Danny. He was thoroughly dependable, hard working and the sweetest kid you could ever meet. He was in several of my classes over the two years I taught and he was part of every play we undertook. I absolutely adored him.
About twenty years ago, I found out where he was on the Internet and wrote to him but I got no reply. When I ran into one of his classmates one day, I mentioned that I’d tried to reach out to Dan but had received no reply and his former friend told me that Dan had become a devout Christian and that he was fiercely anti gay. I was really sad to hear that.
When Stephanie, another of his classmates, recently wrote. It got me thinking about trying again to reach out to Dan — carefully. So I searched him again and discovered that he had suffered a heart attack and died suddenly at age 62 this past summer.
I was sad to discover I could never talk to him again. I was sad not to feel inclined to tell his family about his remarkable youth and the love we all had for him. I adored the Danny I knew but the Christian man was, I believe, a horror.
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Want to see a moving and clever political ad? It’s for the Liberals (just so you know); it’s done by Joyce Murray and it is entirely about policy—and important policy—but it is also an entirely human story of one person. Check it out here.
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Today I’m going on the dog walk with my friends and coming home to enjoy a day with electricity—a day back to normal. It’s dull and damp today, but it’s not raining; I’ll spend the day chillin’ and resting for the week of sunshine starting tomorrow.
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