Friday Freakout

By gar, it's been a while!




If one has an opportunity, do go to Chick-Fil-A to have a chicken sandwich on Yonge Street in Toronto. The sandwiches are delightfully yummy, so I am told.




A young disabled woman draws to support her mother:

There is a 27-year-old girl who lives in a remote mountainous area in Hue, Vietnam, with her 67-year-old mother. She is unable to move, do regular activities by herself and has trouble speaking because of her disability. The only one standing by her side is the frail old mother who takes care of her every day. Huynh Thi Thanh has a curled-up body, deformed limbs and is unable to move right from birth.

Thanh has a beautiful dream to draw with her feet and sell her art to support her mother in daily expenses. Her mother is the only support that she has. She takes care of her every day by feeding, giving her water, washing and much more. She never lets Thanh out of her sight.

Thanh can’t control her limbs to perform daily activities, so she just lies on the floor and uses her feet to grab the crayons to draw. The pictures she draws are innocent, optimistic, full of color, and depict a happy family that Thanh didn’t have. However, she draws them with a variety of emotions. Her feet work magically as she uses them to grab crayons between her toes while her body is twisted. It’s hard and painful to see that.

How very curious:

In 2004, a retired forester reached out to Capilano University archaeology professor Bob Muckle about investigating what looked like the remnants of an old logging camp in the forests of British Columbia, Canada. North Shore News reports that each spring for the next 14 years, Muckle took his students there to help him excavate what he now believes was a sort-of-secret Japanese settlement.

The site is located on the Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve, about 12 miles northeast of Vancouver. It’s approximately the size of a football field and contains the remains of more than a dozen cabins, a bathhouse, a road made of cedar planks, and a cedar platform that may have been a shrine. Muckle and his students have also unearthed more than 1000 items, including sake and beer bottles from Japan, teapots, game pieces, medicine bottles, clocks, pocket watches, clothing buttons, coins, and hoards of ceramics.

And now, something slow for the week-end: