232 Constant Procession

<p>Idleness, silos, anonymous comments and prayer. Plus the time when the Virgin Mary sought out a friend.</p> <p>There are overlooked aspects of the effect isolation due to the pandemic has on us and without communal prayer, we must double our personal efforts to pray to God on our own.</p> <p>The other day I was having trouble with a minor technical issue with my printer. I knew there would be someone on line who had a video with a fix.</p> <p>Naturally I went to ‘everyone’s go to video source’ on the internet to find a video that would demonstrate someone’s recorded solution to this printer’s problem.</p> <p>To my surprise, for this particular issue there was just one video. I played it. The narrator had a very thick accent, actually barely a command of the English language.</p> <p>For me, having grown up in a first-generation English language household, this is not an issue. For me It’s generally just a matter of paying closer attention to the words being spoken and in this case, the technical aspect of the issue helped with my understanding.</p> <p>The solution was fairly straight forward and I was able to make the adjustment on my printer. I went back to the video and thought I’d add a ‘like’ to the provider who spoke broken English for his solution.</p> <p>I happened to scan one of the comments just before clicking off my computer.</p> <p>To my surprise the comments, and there were a number of them were extremely crass and condescending even cruel.</p> <p>The comments for the most part had nothing to do with the solution. They did not say things like, hey this didn’t work (because the solution did work) nor did it say they had a better solution.</p> <p>No instead the comments were solely about the persons English. And it’s not as though the comments had a positive spin like, ‘Hey next time check out the pronunciation of some of your wording’ or ‘Your solution was great, but your accent got in the way a bit.”</p> <p>No the comments were like, hey don’t even try to do a video in English, another comment ‘You