Yearnotes: 2020
Looking back at my 2019 notes , it is tempting to say little has changed. My conclusion then feels prescient: So, this is my inspiration for 2020 (reposting from November): https://twitter.com/debcha/status/1193143681181736961 “Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation” is Scottish writer Alasdair Gray’s rephrasing of a line from beloved Canadian poet Dennis Lee (the original was "a better world"). “The Jackpot” comes from William Gibson's novel The Peripheral , and is a distributed, slow-motion apocalypse of climate change, crop failures and famine, pandemic, political collapse, etc. My resolution for 2020 has been going ok: https://www.instagram.com/p/B5dUD_cpwHv6VslBA1cpt__8Mjf9D6vUe8qAXA0/ Perhaps we can skip the 'unprecedented' or 'strange' comments, and simply feel lucky that the challenges of this year for a lot of 'us' were not that significant compared to the challenges of this or other years for so many in our own ...