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This is a living document to keep track of ways you can contribute to the recovery efforts for the countries and peoples affected by the tragedy that was Hurricane Melissa, as of writing, the strongest hurricane to ever make landfall in recorded history. It’s important for us to recognize that not only is Hurricane Melissa the strongest hurricane on record, it likely is setting a new precedent for the kinds of storms we in the Caribbean can expect to deal with in the coming years as a direct result of anthropogenic climate change. Is that scary? Yes. Fuck yes. But it’s real. It’s not fearmongering to follow the trends we’ve been seeing and expecting to see for the past several decades as primarily “first world” countries continue to burn fossil fuels at rates that are both utterly unnecessary and actively deadly.

So this page is for one thing and one thing only: Fun little sites I’ve stumbled across on the internet. It will be updated whenever I stumble across a new fun little site on the internet. I want to do this because we live in a time where so much of the internet exists solely for commerce and the exchange of money or accumulation of capital that it’s nice to remember that people are and always will be creative and share that creativity with the whole world.

So this week, some interesting things happened that I have felt the impetus to write about in a more rigorous manner, so I’m currently working on something a bit meatier. Stay tuned for updates.

We’re here for the second weekly installment of what I got up to this week!

I’ve been working on some things recently, so haven’t really been writing anything for the blog, so I want to try to do what I said this blog is for and express incomplete thoughts/progress updates. So I’m going to try to come here every week to let you all know what I’m up to. So…

I'm sitting in the car at a red light. It's 6:10am, just on time to get my sisters to school. The man with the hand wiper and the Pepsi bottle full of diluted dish detergent walks up the car expectantly. For once, I let him. He smiles wide, happy to have a customer that wasn't first a hostage this early in the morning.

So as part of my partly self-imposed stint of unemployment, I’ve had a bit more time to read, which is a great thing for me. I’ve always found reading to be relaxing and informative by nature. In particular I’ve been reading Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking by David Bayles and Ted Orland. It’s a book that wears its contents on its sleeve. It primarily concerns itself with the difficulties that artists face when trying to create their (our) work. It covers a range of these from the eternal feeling of being an imposter, the lie that we tell ourselves that “if I just do this then I’ll be an artist”, dealing with the desired to be accepted, perfectionism and a whole host of other, well, Perils™.