Highway Heroes
In the beginning of these Feature Photos and their stories, I was posting the Featured Photo on Wednesdays
and then the story about that photo a couple of days later on Friday. But then I realized that
sometimes the story idea/revelation would come to me later in the week, such as on the weekend. So I began to post the stories on Mondays. But lately the ideas for
the stories having been coming to me as late as Tuesday. And this week in wasn't until early this morning, Wednesday that I figured out what I should write about.
Therefor I have decided to post the story every Wednesday evening instead, along with the Feature Photo for the next week. That will give me a whole week in which
to come up with a story that can be linked to the Featured Photo. I probably should have started with that format in the beginning but to be fair, at that time the
stories were coming to me soon after the Featured Photo was posted and I wanted to get them written down while the ideas were fresh. As time progressed, it seemed
as though the stories would come to me later and later in the week, like some kind of cosmic clock moving forward in time. Perhaps at some point the clock will
reset and start its journey again.
ust admit, for a long while I couldn't find any reference to 'Ancient Double Barcode' anywhere in my life or in
the news. I never google the photo titles because that concept wouldn't prove to have much connection or significance to a story involving myself. The story idea
needs to be something that pops up somewhat noticeably. I usually also use the second best title to help me pin point a story idea, but the top two others titles
for 'Ancient Double Barcode' were 'Portal to Siam' by Marcus Maidment and 'Subtle Barcode' by Stefan Fuchs, and they left me pondering for days. Marcus mentioned
that LaLisa was in the news lately, a young female singer from a Korean pop band called 'Blackpink'. LaLisa originally hails from Thailand, aka Siam, but I couldn't
think of much of a story about a portal and a Popstar. Then I got to thinking about the idea of a subtle barcode and whether the barcode was a barcode at all, or
just something that resembles a barcode, like a line. And in this case two lines, possibly going in two different directions, and ancient; two ancient lines going
in different directions. It was a road.
A road is significant this week because coming down the road from out west is a convoy of truckers heading to
the Parliament to protest the vaccine mandate and fight for their freedom. They will arrive on Saturday and there had been much talk about it on Facebook and in
the papers. A friend of mine sent me an email to warm me to gas up before the convoy arrives as no doubt its going to create a traffic disaster all over the city.
My first thought is what will happened to all the emergency vehicles that need to move freely?
I am part of a Kanata dad's Facebook group and one fellow suggested that we would be our kids heroes if we brought
them to an overpass to see all the trucks. Another suggested that if we do that, it would mean we supporting the protest. For my part, I am just tired of having
the issue drag on and on. I agree that the government should never force people to take vaccines, but honestly the government shouldn't have to. The society of
freedoms we had before the pandemic existed because of vaccines. What kind of life would we have had if Polio, Diphtheria and Small Pox were still just as
prevalent as COVID is now?
Several nights ago I watched a story on the news about how all the paramedics are burning out because they
are so busy bringing people to the hospitals, and too often there just aren't enough paramedics available to deal with all the calls coming in. But they
forge on as best as they can. To me, they are the real highway heroes and hopefully someday they will be have time enough make their own convoy, not of protest
but of celebration. Now that's a parade I would bring my kid to.
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