Managing a Little More

After supposing “saying something right now might be more than saying nothing, but obviously the most minuscule bit more,” the next day I happened on a editorial item on Anime News Network with a link tucked into it to make charitable donations in my own country. Maybe it was an unexpected place to run into it (and having started off with “drawings from Japan given Western names” might have left me at the risk of making assumptions about “how they’re seen even now and who can identify with them”), but it was a chance I was fine with taking. Again, at no point can one or a few good deeds let us dust our hands off and turn away, and there are suggestions in particular places too about not making too big a deal of charitable donations. (However, having picked up Francis Spufford’s book Unapologetic again in just the past few days has provided a strange reassurance.)