Raven's View

This seems to be another on-again, off-again session. Between Netflix, summer, a Federal election, and long talks with my girlfriend - well, it seems not a lot of writerly things are being done. I did do some editing, of a friend's book. And I did a Flash Fiction for a favorite site that has been revived. Plus reading, of course.  A lot of Facebook time too, as well as a couple of newspapers. I have been following quite closely the election campaigns, and - lately - the newly discovered Syrian refugee crisis. Looks like a lot of people are stepping up to sponsor families. Unfortunately, due to new regulations and regular annual cutbacks, Immigration staff are hard pressed to deal with the current small influx of refugees. To handle the new, much larger goals by end of year they need to double their staff - and have them trained and running within a few days. Sad state of affairs.