Another Snow Day in Blessington

Hello, readers! It was the 18th of January, 2026 as I started writing this. I'm still housed at Blessington, and on that morning, it was snowing. Big, FAT snowflakes that I could easily see through the slit window of my cell.

Two years in a row now, in January, we have had some amount of snow here in this part of Northern Florida, near the state line. That is something that is not usual here, but it may become the new usual if we all stop doing our part to mitigate our own impacts on the climate we live in.

Incidentally, I hope my little brother, JJ, is doing well on the other side of the concertina wire since his release. Last year, JJ got to experience snow here. Hopefully he's in a safe, warm place this year as he experiences it anew.

Granted, our snow was gone before noon this time -- not even a trace was left on the ground, which means we did not get much of whatever system was pushing it down. Nevertheless, we got it and this made the dorms much colder as result.

But hey, never you fear. Humanity has absolutely nothing at all to do with accelerating the shifts in climate patterns.

... I can't lie to myself convincingly on that. We need to look into everything we can do to accelerate our shift to cleaner energies, to reducing our species' outsized impact (both directly and indirectly) on the blue marble we live on, and become the stewards of positive change that we should be.

We must move away from research of more effective ways to kill or otherwise harm each other.
We must move toward research and development of more effective ways to help and heal each other, like advancements in battery technology using materials that are very abundant in our planet's crust (hello, sodium-ion batteries and your researchers, 💛 I see you!), or advancements in geothermal and wave energy (you're both coming along, too, I love you!), or re-greening our public spaces with verve, vim, and vigor.
We must move toward both food equity and elimination of food waste -- less making food pretty, more making food edible, a stronger move to sustainable diets (which means less meat and thus less deforestation to grow the meat), to education on the many ways to prepare food items in order to improve the use of each food.

It would be an ideal thing for each of us to grab up our share of the great loving kindness wheel and turn it, I think to myself a few days later as we clear yet another compound-wide lockdown.

May it happen in this lifetime.