I am unfortunately suffering major computer issues and I think my desktop machine, which was what I use the most for work and writing etc. is dead. Maybe not, but I’m pretty tech savvy and I was not able to get it to launch the OS. I was really hoping it would make it to the end of the year, but it’s four years old and I think just went kapoop with all the extra labor working from home required from both of us. *cries*
Anyway, I’m writing this from my work machine at the office which is also old and cranky but, at least, working.
The walk around Lake Ella the past two mornings has been surprising. The covered picnic gazebos on the south west corner of the park, facing the main parking lot next to Monroe, are GONE.
Just. GONE.
You see that flat slab there? That’s where one of the larger gazebos existed as of Monday. I saw some major equipment rolling up the other morning but I had no idea they were going to rip out the gazebos. But they did, and efficiently too.
I’m pretty sure this is a pre-emptive anti-homeless move, as the gazebos were where homeless people congregated at night and in the mornings. Those were the only places you could escape the rain.
We’re they, architecturally and design-wise, a bit of a eyesore? Yes. Yes they were. But unless new gazebos are going up (I have not checked, so the possibility exists!) they were all anyone had. Especially the homeless, who have so little.
But as the economy continues tanking and benefits and savings run out, there will be a lot more homeless people showing up. Again I lament that our society views homeless people as the problem, and not the economic and social issues that drive people to homelessness as the problems. It’s damning, for all of us.