PotD – 01/19/10
I feel so bleh today. The wash of rain that we were supposed to receive over the past few days was intermittent at best; a sorry disappointment not only for the plants yearning for moisture but for the person looking for consistency between weather predictions and reality. At the same time, bogged down in reading, my head is swimming; floating in and out of a head cold it’s ballooned one moment and excited and hungry the next. And so I’m bobbing in and out of the waves; riding interest as it crests until it crashes and I’m floundering around in the cold, fighting to keep my focus on the page.
And the world isn’t helping. No, Democrats are blowing the one sure thing in their so-called mandate, with disaffected old white men chortling with their “I’ve got mine so fuck you” glee. No, there’s a world awash in poverty, just like there always is. Now we’re focusing on Haiti, a chronically disadvantaged country that the US will forget in 2 weeks when the cameras leave; a country that in 2 months will be little more than another right wing talking point about Obama’s supposed failures (but will really just be a cover for subdued racism). Positive aspects can, at times, be difficult to find, buried as they are, like green shoots pushing out between two rocks in a dry plain.
But here’s one of the more positive reminders; a way to keep an issue salient through the years:
One obvious thing to do is to fire up whatever calendar program you use and tell it to remind you on January 19, 2011 and January 19, 2012 that back on January 19, 2010 you were thinking about Haiti and resolving not to forget the country 12 or 24 months later when the TV crews have moved on. You can bet that by then there will be many worthy charitable organizations that really do need more money.
And I’ll end with that, as I fire up Google Calendar to set up a Time Capsule for myself.
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