Vote Highway 17

I'm reposting this photo because this stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway, which I enjoyed so much on our spring drive to Winnipeg, is in close running to have a song written about it. CBC's Song Quest will commission 13 new road songs, one for each province and territory, to be written by a Canadian artist. This section of road, also known as Highway 17 around the north shore of Lake Superior, is a journey through the wilderness, small villages dotted through great distances of boreal forest amid sudden stunning vistas.

Currently Highways 17 is running a close second to Roncesvalles Avenue in Toronto. If you would like to vote, go to Songquest, and click on the link for Ontario. You will have to create an account on the site, then you can vote. Vote for Highway 17! You can also vote for each of the other provinces and territories. You can vote once per day. Today and tomorrow are left until voting closes.

Rest

The haemorrhoid problem was a little worse after work yesterday, but not as bad as the beginning of last week. Healing is never a linear process, but I have moments of panic when it doesn't improve.

I went to work again this morning. Upon arrival I discovered there was a holdup in the task I am working on, and Les was uncertain about what I should work on this morning, but he wants us to make two service calls in Toronto tomorrow. My body is still needing rest, so I decided to take today off and relax my laurels before tomorrow's road trip.

Coming home I heard a CBC interview with Ingrid Betancourt, the Colombian former presidential candidate who was held hostage by guerrillas in the jungle for more than six years and rescued in 2008. I am torn apart when I hear the extremities of humanity and inhumanity. Could I could stand to read her harrowing memoir, Even silence has an end? A little on-line reading turns up controversy over her behaviour toward other hostages who shared her captivity.