Audio Introduction
Today my reading is going back to my first substack post. It is my travelogue and commentary on the beginning of the lockdowns in March 2020. In 2019 I became unemployed and collected EI for the first time in my life. Just before it was to expire my friend and old work mate, who had gone north a couple of years earlier, far north, to be close to her grown daughter, sent me an employment opportunity with her employer. She sent it to me, not knowing my employment state and even though she doubted I would be interested. Perfect timing. As soon as my application had been tentatively accepted Yoshiko and I began to get ready for a move, a big move for me, my first foray out of metro Vancouver since entering it 45 years earlier as a teen in 1975. I actually signed and sent some of the final papers on the second or third day of the trip.
Then life became interesting because, between my being accepted and moving to it, my community went from covid panicked and puzzling, to kind of insane with lockdowns and masking. Yoshiko I drove north on mostly empty roads and had a fantastic time, doing yoga and eating her great organic food she prepared for us. We took it easy and the trip was spread over seven days, with lots of yogic excitement.
This is chapter one of that travelogue. It includes my preliminary tentative observations on what I would later understand was the government having deliberately panicked the community to initiate a social state that, I would learn later, is called ‘mass formation’. I discus that in more detail in later essays, including my questioning the validity of that concept. As time permits over the next few months, my intention is to add audios to all my old essays going forward.
If you would like to read the travelogue and/or read along with the audio:
Yoga and Pure Newslessness as Covid Prophylactic
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Request for Help
In July of 2024 I had unexpected pacemaker surgery that cleaned out my savings.
I requested donations to help me through the pinch. I anticipate that my immediate threat of insolvency will be cleared before the end of the year.
I recorded this in mid-October 2024. If you come to this essay before January 1, 2025, and you are in position to help and would like to, you can check out the details of that in the link in the post. Once my yoga based trauma recovery centre is given the green light with confirmation of my residency, I anticipate the need for immediate financial help will disappear. As the situation changes I will update my requirements. At this time, I’m about 1/3 of what I anticipate is required. So if you are curious and would like to help me, please consider my request for donations and give an amount, if you are called to do so, that gives you joy. I appreciate and am grateful for considering me.
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All the best with what is changing. Everything changes! With peace, respect, love and exuberant joy.
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