Tuesday: A day to: welcome summer and honor the past.
As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group gives Kossacks a safe place to check in, a daily diary where we
can let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wild fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, power outages, earthquakes, or other such things that could keep us off DKos. It also allows us to find other Kossacks nearby for in-person checks when other methods of communication fail - a buddy system. If you're not here, or anywhere else on DKos, and there are adverse conditions in your area (floods, heatwaves, hurricanes, earthquakes etc.), we and your buddy are going to check up on you. If you are going to be away from your computer for a day or a week, let us know here. We care!
IAN is a great group to join, and a good place to learn to write diaries. Drop one of us a Kosmail and ask to be added to the Itzl Alert Network anytime! We all share the publishing duties, and we welcome everyone who reads IAN to write diaries for the group! Every member is an editor, so anyone can take a turn when they have something to say, photos and music to share, a cause to promote or news!
We do have a diary schedule. But, when you are ready to write that diary, either post in thread or send FloridaSNMOM a Kosmail with the date. If you need someone to fill in, ditto. FloridaSNMOM is here on and off through the day usually from around 9:30 or 10 am eastern to around 11 pm eastern.
Monday: Crimson Quillfeather
Tuesday: ejoanna
Wednesday: Pam from Calif
Thursday: art ah zen
Friday: FloridaSNMOM
Saturday: FloridaSNDad
Sunday: loggersbrat
Writing this as Memorial Day weekend is wrapping up. Quiet here in the SF Bay Area. But, of course, I’m pretty much still staying around home, even though I’m fully vaccinated. I was never a lover of crowds—and I am still not. But Mr. ej and I do venture out a bit more. We may even go down to our favorite local coffee shop (not a franchise!) tomorrow, for a first meal there in a year and a half. Maybe.
Memorial Day again gets to me to wondering how this country would have fared if we needed to mobilize the war effort of WW2, with a huge swathe of the population that doesn’t even want to wear masks! I know this isn’t (probably) a good analogy to work with, but I still think of how little too many people are willing to sacrifice today for the public good. Just thinking. . .
This weekend is also the “secular” start of Summer (which we know is actually on the Summer Solstice, the 3rd week of June.)
But we don’t go by the science of it all, just the cultural memory and habit.
To be honest, I’m basically just waiting for summer to be over. And praying for an early and serious rainy season. The prospect of a long, hot, dry summer—with drought restrictions and wildfires—is very, very unsettling.
Sigh.