Back when I had my 2013 Chevy Sonic, the thermostat and its housing decided to explode one day, leaving me rolling down the street steaming like a tea kettle and spewing orange GM Dexcool coolant all over the engine. A dealer service visit later, I find out that it’s going to cost $600 bucks to replace.
The engineers at GM thought it was a good idea to design a part that’s integral to the engine’s cooling system out of plastic. I was going to do it myself until I found out what it entailed. Because the whole housing is made out of plastic, had I gone with the OEM part, failure to properly follow GM’s bolt-tightening sequence after installation could potentially fracture the whole housing, requiring another replacement.
A virtual moment of escape and reflection in these uncertain times is offered through
Nights on B Street, a collaboration of art by Adam LeBlanc and poetry by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Emeritus Professor
Joseph Stanton on exhibit at Windward Community College’s Gallery ʻIolani. The exhibit is available virtually to the public. It includes spoken poetry and a virtual stroll up and down B Street, with commentary about the artists’ collaboration.
LeBlanc’s installation
Nights on B Street, invites intrigue and mystique while gathering viewers into the urban landscape world of residents encompassing dreams fulfilled or unfulfilled. Musicians and artists are playing to those scenarios, and passersby become part of the panorama in this culturally captivating inner cityscape. Insightful poetry by Stanton accompanies LeBlanc’s work giving the viewer a bountiful treat.
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But LeBlanc wants to talk, though he admits that while he wishes he had words of advice for other parents who have a child suffering with depression or other mental health issues that could lead to suicidal ideation or worse, suicide he doesn t have the answers.
Subscribe I don t even know if I can help another parent, LeBlanc said. But he noted that after Adam took his own life and counselors were available for families to process the death, perhaps that helped. A lot of parents probably talked to their kids, he said. I have to hope that may have helped.