Occupy Montreal

My arm is on fire with colours.

Pics forthcoming when it dies down a bit.

In the meantime, has anyone heard of an Occupy Montreal? Or anywhere in Canada, actually. With Occupy Wall Street moving out into other US communities, I am curious. The Canadian situation is bad, economically, and Harper is determined to join the rest of the globe in making it worse, but I don't think it has been quite so dire so long as to motivate people to go and get maced by cops.

Days of Atonement

I have been reminded that it is the leadup to Yom Kippur, and this is traditionally the ten-day grace period people are granted to change which book they are in for the upcoming year. While the particulars of the ritual are of interest to me only intellectually, I do like the general concept of putting aside time to sincerely apologize to people and to accept these apologies in the best of open spirits.

Mind you, ever since reading this interview with David Graeber and the bit about debt as a moral concept, I've been intrigued by the way we view obligation and have thought about the concept of a moral jubilee year.