Green Mountain Meandering Missives

Dear Sorely Missed Loved One, Recently, it was your 38th birthday.  Unfortunately, after years of lengthy separation between us during your youth and then having been joyously reunited for a time, due to an unintentional error of miscommunication and misunderstanding on my part, you and I have been out of contact for six (6) or more years. As it turns out, you had changed your identity and tried to communicate that to me, including by using your new name as well as email address at the time; however, I did not realize it until months later when I eventually stumbled upon what had taken place unbeknownst to me at the time regarding these changes. If you had initially used your other, older, email address to do so, I must have either missed it or didn't understand, back then. Please believe me and know as well as understand that I had not rejected you, nor the change of your identity, whatsoever. Rather, once I finally realized what had occurred, I fully embraced these and would you

Besides building additional permanent housing across Vermont as quickly as is possible and also providing enough funding to the array of housing and social service providers with which to ensure sufficient provision of various high quality support and services being made available and offered on a voluntary basis (read related commentary of mine, here ; via vtdigger ; circa: 2013), what more will be necessary to help better address the most dire needs of those living unhoused within our region? In a nutshell, according to my read of a recent vtdigger article ( here ) , it is providing an adequate medical respite housing program within an accessible home-like environment based in a community of one's choosing. Good Samaritan Welcome Center , located on Route 302 in Berlin and had been the former Twin City Motel, opened its doors to people living unhoused in the Summer of 2022 (read related blog post of theirs, here ): [...] With tremendous financial investment from VHCB and generou

In case these earlier missives of mine concerning various matters might also be of interest (via Google Drive), fyi: Thoughts on Independent Living, here ; Montpelier Fails to Adequately Address Homelessness:  What Is One to Do?, here ; Vermont Needs Universal Health Care For All, here ; Questions Remain for State Legislators ( About Proposed Legislative Salary Increases), here ; Muddied Waters, here ; Essay: My, Adopted, Green Mountain Home, here . Photo: Vermont State House, in the background, behind yours truly (selfie, taken by Morgan W. Brown: circa: October 6, 2022).

Given that the standard in Vermont concerning the disposal of food scraps as well as waste is to compost rather than to dispose it in the trash any longer, questions have arisen within my mind about whether it should still be permissible (read: legal) within the state to dispose of food scraps as well as waste down a kitchen sink drain using a garbage disposal system. Based upon information I have come across online and read thus far, food scraps and waste processed utilizing a kitchen sink garbage disposal unit can cause harm to old pipes whether in a building or an aging public sewer system. It can also cause problems in older water treatment plants; and, even if a water treatment plant is modernized and upgraded to more properly handle and process such food waste, what is left over from the process often times either ends up in a landfill (which, if buried, creates methane, a greenhouse gas) or is otherwise incinerated (which creates carbon emissions). It goes without saying that ne

It has been quite a while since I have last blogged, having deleted my previous blogs (except for the one about my cat Cleo, which has become defunct), including because I had mainly posted using social media platforms instead (though these days I mainly use either Instagram accounts or Threads and no longer use either Facebook or Twitter aka X). However, since I have been writing commentary concerning matters concerning Vermont and related matters, I figured that it might be time to post such missives using a blog and this is it. Photo: Camel's Hump, viewed from the top of the Hubbard Park tower in Montpelier (taken by Morgan W. Brown: circa: May 31, 2009).