As someone who rushed himself through recovery after fracturing multiple ribs, PLEASE let yourself rest properly. The longterm damage I get to deal with now is -100 out of 10, would never reccomend.

You are worth the space and time needed to heal.

Readers should picture me lobbing colourful language over the river as I worked on our recent Canada Pacific Kansas City story. Not directed *at* the river, just sort of in the vicinity.

#BCnews

Reporter here, that is the actual age range! And yeah, it threw me for a loop as well. VIDEA, sort of the main supporter of the Common Roots program set the 12–30 age range. I did ask Emma Gamson and Ruby Serrouya, youth leaders about it and they said it's created some neat mentorship moments.

The whole image is giving me hives, really. Over here panicking that my own inbox is at 25+.

Thanks! Was a piece we've had our eyes on for a while. Feels nice to finally get it out to readers.

Listening through my last couple weeks of interviews and hearing just HOW often I experience that weird, "the word was there and has now straight up ghosted," feeling* is not a good time, let me tell ya.

*A residual symptom from my encephalitis incident that's never really gone away since.

Neither. That man is canonically a massive nerd. He went down an absolute rabbit hole researching vibranium, Wakanda's groundbreaking work in waterproof tech and the specs of his exact dishwasher model. It was a throwaway thought that turned into a 6 hour research binge.

I *desperately* want a study on this, I hear it so often the way the brain sort of mellows out within 24 hours of that first HRT treatment. I've had others explain, "it's like the body finally got something it was missing." Even I, who was terrified of starting T, experienced it.

To be fair... that's how many I would remember to take a month 🙃

Off I go again to review the write up of a dozen instances that a couple different community members have heard about and gone, "what the actual fu–?" To sit with a cPTSD brain and try to convince it that yeah, what happened was not cool, we should tell someone.

I am so very tired.

I love this project and was so excited to find a couple pieces myself this year.

Now, it's only one of the parked office spots. You'll also find me in the Red Apple parking lot... too often.