Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Sunset in Hanna


Sunset in Hanna
Originally uploaded by dbuc.
merry christmas to everyone out there. this was taken on boxing day, and yes, we had a white christmas, fortunately. hope this finds everyone well and rested. Happy new year...

Sunday, December 03, 2006

Calgary at Dusk2


Calgary at Dusk2
Originally uploaded by dbuc.
Guess who got a new camera??? yes, after three months of taking shitty pics with my cell phone camera, i decided to make the plunge and buy it. This was taken during the deep freeze from which we are just exiting in calgary now. we had a day of 0 degrees this week, but the rest have all been below 10, reaching a pit of -40 with the wind chill. Needless to say, as we haven't yet entered the tradtional deep freeze months of january and february, this winter is going to be a long, chilly affair.

i was talking with a friend last night over a couple of beers about a number of different things, and he mentioned the Al Gore movie out right now. I haven't seen it yet, though i have every intention of doing so. He was mentioning how upset he was by it, or motivated/worried. And, he's right to be. If you look at the state of the world, there aren't very many places where you can just be and not worry. there is something effed up in every corner. Stephen Hawking said just yesterday that if the human race is going to survive, then we'll have to colonize other planets in distant galaxies. Matthew Good mentioned on his blog something to the effect of if you're unconcerned with the world at this point, then you are ignorant of the facts.

It's just so tempting though, to be ignorant, as they say that's bliss. It just seems so hard when everyone has their own struggles every day to also devote time to everything you worry about. We concluded in our conversation that definitely you have to choose one thing to commit to to try and affect...be it hunger, human rights, the native struggle, global warming, endangered species, animal cruelty, GM foods, etc. otherwise, you'll be truly ineffective, and left feeling helpless. Then you can devote the rest of your time to self-centered activities that make you happy.