New rule
I popped downstairs after my work day, stepping off a thoughtful call with a colleague, and a great podcast recording slot before that. My head full of notions and ideas, I was —
RAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHR
It was like a train-on-fire screamed past me at the bottom of the stairs. A backdraft of family energy like a dragon's mouth.
Whoa. I stepped back. I recalculated the situation. This was a group of people who have been struggling through the post-school chaos for the past hour: writhing with the pain of starving bellies, crushed under the weight of homework, heckled by the pressure of sibling rivarly, moaning with tiredness, frenetic with energy, a bubbling, whistling tea-kettle ready to boil over.
New rule: all employment across BC and Canada ceases at 2:30 pm to allow the maximum number of grown-ups possible to be on duty for when school-age children end their school day. The zone is 3-5 pm work is explicitly banned. The amount of need and struggle is simply too abundant to allow any family to…
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