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Living Off The Legacy – Handy Heights

Living off the Legacy” follows elder cousin, George Jefferson Sr., on a foraging, fishing, hunting, and food preparation journey through our family’s ancestral land, showing us how he lives off the legacy our ancestors left. A film by Patrice E. Jones. This film was a part of the 2024 Prototype Film Residency.

A lovely short film filmed and directed by my sister Patrice featuring our Cousin George about the footways of our ancestral land.

I made a little more progress on the walk-in shower remodel today. Installed the backing board. Here’s a before and after.

Walk in shower before and after Durock installation

iPhone 11 Revisited

My iPhone 11, even though I have had it for five years now, is still getting software and security updates from Apple, and the battery is still decent for this phone’s age (around 80% maximum capacity). My iPhone 11 is still plenty fast (for me), and the camera still takes decent quality photos (for me).

Steve Best is keeping his phone. I have a 12 mini and have no plans to change it anytime soon.

Sketchnote Lab Live Tickets, Sat, Dec 14, 2024 at 12:00 PM | Eventbrite

Join Mike Rohde for a one-of-a-kind event where he tackles a real-world problem live. Watch as Mike demonstrates his visual problem-solving process using sketchnotes, shares actionable tips, and works against a deadline to find solutions.

Mike is an excellent and patient instructor. Recommended if you are at all interested in this sort of thing. Only $10 too!

Some really interesting, and infrequently discussed, data about homelessness (shared with me by my wife):

  • Within 18 months of emancipation 40-50% of foster youth become homeless.

  • Nationally, 50% of the homeless population spent time in foster care.

More here.

Related, my wife and I were struck by how few unhoused folks we saw in New Orleans.

Home for Good New Orleans is a community-wide effort to achieve low to no unsheltered homelessness in New Orleans by the end of 2025.

How? Give them a place to live.

Seems to be working.