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Good Evening, Lovelies! Weather predictions for this weekend are dire indeed. As much as poor New South Wales, Australia is burning--that's how much WE will be encased in ice this weekend. Isn't nature astounding? So I've made plans to exclude myself from EVERY possible equation this weekend. No braving the sidewalks around home to visit my favorite haunts, no riding the bus through rainstorms or ice squalls in hopes of finding the sidewalks in the suburbs nicely salted. Nope. I'll be home sweet home! Enjoying the quiet of a world under glass--so to speak--and waiting it out until the pedestrian walkways are as carefully de-iced as the roadways! I have high hopes that the forecasts were all exaggerated out of an abundance of caution so people would opt to stay home, but you never can tell. People get so used to ice and snow and the freezing cold that they brave it--and suffer the consequences--no matter what. When I think about it, I can't help but wonder if the disabled community that would so often stay indoors and isolate completely from society back when the weather was COLDER--were actually the generation meant by Fate to get out there and change things, and not MY generation at all. Sure things are "milder" now thanks to the Greenhouse Effect and Climate Change and any other meteorological factors, but when it was too cold for ice or snow to form, maybe that would have been better for the Disabled to make their mark? Instead it's us, now. Whether we like it or not--which I'm confident is a resounding "NOT". It's up to us to carry on the "Curb Effect" of the 1970s and make the world a more accessible place, even at our own peril. Of course this flies directly in the face of what I just said about the danger of braving the un-salted sidewalks and/or roads. But if the risk is worth it, it's worth the risk. Thank God we have the added platform of social media and the Internet to spread our message of what the world needs. Love is the shortest answer, but "compassion" is the most urgent. What the world needs now is for all of us to feel each other's suffering, cry each other's tears, share each other's burdens. Imagine what could change, and where we could all be a year--TEN years--from now! One person's dilemma isn't for you to ignore until the next person comes along to help them. At that point you don't have a right to say "I was just thinking about fixing the problem that way!" It's true what they've always said. "If not you, who? If not now, WHEN?" (emphasis mine). There's absolutely no time like now to help somebody having trouble navigating these mean, icy streets. Onward and outward, my friends...let's give the world what it needs.