Tuesday: A day to be thankful for rain—and sad for Notre Dame.
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 alternating with ZenTrainer
Tuesday: ejoanna
Wednesday: Pam from Calif
Thursday: art ah zen
Friday: FloridaSNMOM
Saturday: Gwennedd
Sunday: loggersbrat
Hello Ian-ites and Friends. I’ll keep it pretty simple. Tonight will be probably be the last major rainstorm of the season here in the SF Bay Area. I will enjoy it, my garden will love it, and I will really miss the rainy season. I don’t care for dry, hot weather.
Then, as I started to write this, I turned on the TV and saw this
Yes, this more-than-iconic cathedral, Notre Dame in flames. I gasped, Oh No!!!! I never got to visit it, but even for me it was one of a lynchpin of ancient European History. I’d come to think of these cathedrals—larger and smaller—as the books, the movies, the Internet of the Middle Ages, When most people could not read—these beautiful buildings were “read” by the populace.
Notre Dame is/was also a “palimpsest.” Look that up. Please do. As a professional Geographer it was one of my favorite words.
Time to light a candle, no matter what your spiritual practices.