The View From Here

It's fascinating to read your thoughts on the connectedness between our shared past and the future of the web. Also to view your "pano"s of the Spring Street art show - if that's what it was. From where I sit, you're walking the walk you describe in your Library a-go-go post. I've copied your thoughts and intend to send them around to some colleagues, because I think a lot of us are not making the move you've made, but tend to use technology as a way of facilitating old ways of communicating, writing our various works. I don't think I'll get as far as you, but I've made a small start by learning how to send photos from the computer to people on my email list. I know that most of the world learned to do this years ago. What can I say? In this area, I'm a slow learner. I hope you will post some of your "pano"s on this blog, or a link to them, as they are fun to look at. In the comments I read about them, people seem to be remarking on some technological feat, but I see composition - an attitude. Can't wait to see the video and find out what Spring is.
    Pretty quiet now in Gibsons. And that's good. David left for Winnipeg on Sunday. Annie flew from Halifax on Thursday and landed hours before the worst wind storm Vancouver has ever experienced. A rocky, but safe landing. That night I was glad to sleep in the city, because when I'm home I worry about trees falling on the house - the downside of living on the edge of the forest. Ironically, Vancouver got the worst of the storm. Many power outtages. Some shopping malls on the outskirts closed for days. Lots of stoplights out, which made driving to the bus station a practice in patience. Annie had intended to bus across the moutains to Kelowna, to go snowboarding with a friend, but the moutain pass Greyhound uses stayed closed all day. She was disappointed, but it's been nice to have her home. Such bubbly, positive energy. She turns 21 on January 9, and it's going to be satisfying for me to see he reach that milestone. She was so unexpected in the first place, and she has turned out to be such an interesting kid. Life's surprises, eh?
     She's going to try to get to Kelowna tomorrow,  and I'm hoping the weather will be moderate. It's not a given, as usually it is. From the second week of November we've had snow storms, record rainfall, record windstorms - three just last week. In an earlier post you commented on your disappointment in San Francisco, where you'd hoped to find the grey cool weather you knew when you lived there. Instead it was hot, right? Changes in the weather, radical ones in some places, make it one of the more interesting subjects to talk about, not just time filler. People wonder if the changes here are abnormal, or the new normal. Meanwhile, I'll finish clearing away the fallen branches from around my place and be thankful that the electricity in my neighbourhood was never out for more than 8 hours at a time.