Do I mean real seals? Well, yes. That’s the image that comes to mind when I see increasingly more posts on social media where instead of comments, it’s the same word or expression repeated at nauseam by users. ‘Comment WHATEVER and I’ll send you a link’ it’s how it’s done. Not a secret link either but something you can otherwise find by yourself on their website with minimal effort. If you want to. Instead, digital promises that marketing wizards have designed to spread like wildfire. Old tricks, new ways to deliver it.
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I just finished my lunch. I sat outside on the front steps and had my sandwich (if you’re curious… it was tofu, sliced pickles, sliced cucumbers, mustard and greens on sourdough), while Poppy was snoozing in the grass, in the shady part of …well, her own garden, I supposed, since that’s what I called it in the last post. I sat, ate and observed the garden, including the gentle pup paw sleep twitches (she does that during sleep, which always reminds me of my boys’ tiny little sleep twitches when they were little).
How often do you pick up a book and read with such delight that you forget about time and push a few less urgent items from your to-do list just you can keep reading?
Chances are, not often (unless you have somehow cracked the code, in which case I will politely invite you to share your secret.) For the rest of us, however, it’s a treat.
Originally published on Armchair Mayor News on Tuesday, June 1, 2021.
Most people in British Columbia have learned by now of the big commotion happening at the Fairy Creek Watershed on Vancouver Island near Port Renfrew.
Blockades have been erected to block the logging of old growth trees in one of the last remaining forested areas that is home to trees as old as 800-years. There’s more to them than their impressive size. They are strong allies in our fight against climate change, and they provide essential habitat to many species that have called these old growth forests home for thousands of years.