Just call me Wallis

Imagine an itch you cannot scratch. Imagine waking up every day tired, every day feeling as if a large person is sitting on your chest and that the feeling will follow you around all day. Might not the day come when you would just say "Enough is enough"? And so I wake each day trying to find that place called 'home'. That place between those horrendous extremes of what it means to be a man and what it means to be a woman. Try she/her/hers. Or better yet ... Just call me Wallis.

Monday, January 02, 1978

Erin District High School - Wellington County Board of Education - Grade 11 - 2nd Semester 1978

MOTHER EARTH - In the spring of 1978, I took a Grade 11 Ecology class and the following year a Grade 12 Ecology class. In that first ecology class I learned how methane gas and carbon dioxide would allow solar shortwave radiation to penetrate the atmosphere but block the terrestrial longwave radiation (heat) from escaping. In other words, the Greenhouse Effect. Using 2018 as timepost, that was 40 years ago! I am concerned when our political leaders today resist the basic science that high school students from 40 years ago know.