Battle Prep!

ADAPT is taking over the HUD plaza. "Free Our People"! Here's from Susan Fitzmaurice:

"ADAPT is at HUD. Chants echo in the early morning air. ADAPT's logistics
team has swarmed the plaza and is putting up tents. No police on site
(yet). I see 5 night employees and security at the doors on walkie
talkies. A woman next to me is screaming affordable, accessible,
integrated housing! It is still night, orange street lights glow
everywhere. Teddy F is hanging with Ian Engle. Its so early in the
morning and people are chanting there guts out! More to come..."

Love.

Preparing to stir things up in DC with a wheelchair cavalry attack.

Watch for activist/advocate doings over the next few days.

Love.

proverb extension/caveat?

I'm fond of stitched samplers and a favorite is "Everything Simple, Nothing Easy."

When I had it made into a scroll in Beijing it became "Saying easy, Doing Hard."

As I got to thinking about my aversion to "all/everything" constructs it occured that some things (particularly sensory stuff like seeing/hearing) are actually quite easy to do, but not at all "simple" to think/talk/act about.

Human vision is quite elaborate to describe and deal with, but it's so easy to do that infants learn it in minutes at birth but our best efforts to date to describe and deal with it are lame.

I want to make some inroads into the tedium that blind folks have in accessing both the environment and the Web - and how to enhance "skimming" or "at a glance" equivalency for folks who can't glance and only a very few can skim, largely because the essential materials for doing it (extensive brailled materials) and the skill to do it are rare.

So "everything" is in fact not simple, and some things are "easy" to do: usually called "natural".

Love.