Category: social conscience
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Day 37 of Self-Isolation in Switzerland – The Future, Or Uncertainty
Reading Time: 3 minutesI question whether we’re living in the future, or uncertainty during this pandemic. One friend on Facebook wrote that Coronavirus is making us live in the future because of a number of reasons, as listed in the embedded post below. If I am being myself then I would say that we’re living…
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Day 34 of Self-Isolation in Switzerland – A Daily Bike Ride
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen the Pandemic was just starting I thought that this would be perfect for a daily bike ride and I was tempted to go to the mountains and to do other things. I didn’t though, because emergency services said “Don’t monopolise our resources getting injured because we may be required to help…
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Day 33 of Self-Isolation in Switzerland – A video walk
Reading Time: 3 minutesToday I went on a video walk with the DJI OSMO pocket three or whichever number it has and I took a series of frames. Before going for my daily walk I searched through the Vision Du Réel virtual Film Festival list of films and I found “The Bridge”. It’s available for…
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Day 32 of Self-Isolation in Switzerland – A Single Tab Open
Reading Time: 3 minutesI have a single tab open in Chrome at the moment, my main browser. This window, to write this blog post. We are now in Day 32 of self-isolation and I’m keeping myself distracted through blogging, making webpages mobile friendly and more. I’m also limiting the time I spend on news websites,…
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Day Thirty-One of ORCA in Switzerland — Plenty of Dust
Reading Time: 2 minutesYou build up plenty of dust as you plow the fields at the moment. The drought continues, as does the desire for this pandemic to be over. For now, the downward trend continues so we could feel optimistic. I’m still optimistic than in two or three weeks recycling centres will go back…
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Day Thirty of ORCA in Switzerland — A Strong Desire to Go Hiking.
Reading Time: 2 minutesI have a strong desire to go hiking. I would like to go on a hiking excursion that lasts for a few days. In theory I could do the Via Alpina route one starting in Nyon and ending in Lichtenstein. It’s a 21 step hike going north. I had lunch watching one…
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Day Twenty-Nine of ORCA in Switzerland – A Desire To Go On A Hike
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe’re in day 29 of ORCA in Switzerland and I have an ever increasing desire to go for a hike. During today’s walk I listened to two podcasts about hiking and I walked yet another variant of my usual walk. Apple tree blooms are increasing in number and the Colza looks almost…
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Day Twenty-eight of ORCA in Switzerland – A Photo Walk
Reading Time: 3 minutesToday I went on a photo walk. Since walking far is now out of the question if you want to be consistently socially distanced it makes sense to go out with a different purpose. When the purpose of the walk is to take photos you can afford to walk up a hill,…
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Day Twenty-seven of ORCA in Switzerland – River Walking
Reading Time: 2 minutesMy shoes are wet and my socks are wet because today I tried river walking. If a child was to do the same it would be called immature and irrational but when an adult does it then it’s adventure, and trying something new. My motivation to river walk came from the pandemic,…
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Day Twenty-Six of ORCA in Switzerland – Playing With 360 Video
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s Day 26 and today I was playing with 360 video. Specifically I went for a walk in the woods and placed the camera ahead of me to provide people with the opportunity to look around. Doing this is a risky strategy during the pandemic because if you cross paths with anyone…