something good is still happening---

April 30, 2022. Sunset 7:59 PM. San Francisco, CA.
MINI PROGRESS REPORT---
I have been negligent about sharing the fact that the dailybell has continued to witness and ring bells as usual- for every sunrise and sunset since the onset of the sheltering in place mandate for covid. It’s one thing to keep the flame going but another matter entirely to let people know that it is still happening. Especially these days, it’s nice to know that something good is going on, even if you are not involved directly.

So here’s today’s sunset-- the 10,468th sun crossing since beginning in 2008— In addition to observing and ringing bells on each occasion since 2008, we have been rolling the big bell down to the sidewalk each evening for the past 772 days and documenting EVERY sunset (since the Shelter in Place mandate came out in March of 2020). Perhaps the tree has grown, but mostly it looks pretty much the same around here every evening.

Changed-for-Changing – Erik Ehn

April 30, 2022. San Francisco, CA.
There was a solar eclipse today on 4/30/22, to be followed by a lunar eclipse a couple of weeks from now on 5/15/22 (or 5/16, depending on your time zone).

For the next 2 weeks, we will be merging the dailybell sunrise/sunset observances with Erik Ehn’s Changed-for-Changing project: “a commitment to passionate noting”- taking the current occurrences of eclipses as containers for this noting. “Eclipse and eclipse are parentheses around vivid attention. We engage with the two-week interim as a lamp for finding, firming, bearing witness.”


The dailybell seemed fitting as an activity to participate with taking today’s Solar eclipse as a beginning and the total Lunar eclipse on May 15th and 16th as the end of the time bracket for Erik’s project. Keep an eye out for the upcoming eclipse as well as the dailybell documentation of “passionate noting” between now and then. I offer the next 2 weeks and 2 days as a reminder and celebration of this hope for shared awareness to anyone who would like to know about it.

mostly for the flightless birds

April 30, 2022.

Partial eclipse of the sun-- that some lucky people in South America and the South Pacific Ocean as well as the penguins in Antarctica will be able to see. Even so, it's a rare enough planetary event that it's worth a moment to take on that perspective. Here's some info