Alex Zimmerman, Writer

My latest blog post, reflecting on the grim state of the USA right now. https://alexzimmerman.ca/index.php/blog/can-america-survive/

On May 7th, I gave a Zoom presentation about Becoming Coastal at the Maritime Museum of British Columbia’s Tea& Talks series. The presentation was recorded. For those of you who missed the talk and would like to view it, it is now online: https://alexzimmerman.ca/index.php/books/ It’s about an hour long, including the questions at the end.

Becoming Coastal Zoom presentation MMBC May 7th at 2:30 PM PDT One of the unexpected upsides of the pandemic lockdown is that institutions are finding ways to reach a broader audience, albeit virtually, than they did with face-to-face events. The Maritime Museum of British Columbia, here in Victoria, has a series it calls Tea & Talks. I was scheduled to give a live presentation about my book, Becoming Coastal, on Thursday, May 7th. The face-to-face part was cancelled due ...to the pandemic lockdown, but the Museum has switched to interactive Zoom presentations. I am happy to report that you be able to attend my presentation, if you are interested, via Zoom. It’s not free it will cost you $5 Can, but the money doesn’t go to me, it goes to a good cause, to support the Maritime Museum, a chronically under-funded organization. Please do join me to see some slides and stories from my journeys and hear a few short readings from the book, and please spread the word if you can’t attend yourself. https://store.mmbc.bc.ca//produc/virtual-program-tea-talks

In this last blog post in this series on the Crisis of Perception, I muse on some potential solutions to the problems I set out previously. https://alexzimmerman.ca//the-crisis-of-perception-and-wh/

In my previous blog post in this series I set out some thoughts on why I think both the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate crisis have a similar ultimate cause, the Crisis of Perception. In this post I talk about a few of the barriers to changing that perception, that I believe have been not given sufficient attention. https://alexzimmerman.ca//the-crisis-of-perception-and-ba/