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COVID TIDIINGS, CONT’D
SEATTLE HAD SNOW, 6 inches of snow. That was Saturday and Sunday. Charlie and I frolicked in the snow. See picture below. Today is Tuesday. SEATTLE HAS SLUSH and, maybe 50 degrees. Pray for a drying wind. But snow is … Continue reading
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GOOD TIDINGS AND ADAPTING
Thank heavens! It’s a New Year and a a new beginning. Here’s to all the good that portends. Good news is we’ve made it this far. We just need to get through the next two weeks of muzzling … Continue reading
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COVID DAYS: EVEN NOW, MANY THANKS
O HAPPY THANKSGIVING DAY! Most significantly, I am thankful for the half of the voters who gave us a generous future and for the other half who, but for a few, didn’t try to kill our democracy. I am hugely … Continue reading
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NEWSPAPER FOLLOW-UP, QANON MOSTLY
It’s best to read yesterday’s post first because this one mostly builds on QAnon comments therein. Herein, I am quoting at length from Farhad Manjoo’s NYT article because I worry that my links don’t always go through, and no one … Continue reading
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COVID OR N0: READING, PART 1, NEWSPAPERS
It’s a little exciting. Two of you asked what I have been reading during COVID. Among my faithful readers, two requesters is Legion. So this is a little exciting. But let’s face it: COVID or not, I read a lot. … Continue reading
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COVID 6: SORT OF HAIKUS
SORT OF HAIKUS, always 17 syllables, or HOW I SPEND MY VIRAL CONTAGION 1. The lobby statue / sits with ears up, moving eyes, / and masked m-utterings. 2. It’s a statue. It’s / a bot. No; it’s a chair-full … Continue reading
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COVID 5: DAY BRIGHTENERS
It’s a dark, very dark day… Charlie says the apocalypse is upon us; the viral and wildfire smokey particulates are winning. Disaster Trump lurks. And wonderful RBG dies. I call it the big unpleasantness, because I am his mother. … Continue reading
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COVID 19 NOTES 4, MORE DAY BRIGHTENERS
We were quarantined again. Fortunately, Day Brighteners were not. These are some of my favorites. Forever lattes! Charlie has a new phone which means that, with the Starbucks’ mobile app he can now upload, he can always pick-up lattes, even … Continue reading
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COVID 19 NOTES,3
JUST IN: A COVID-maybe worker lurks and we are confined…again. The COVID comes, the COVID goes … up and down, but never away. Sigh. Life is Groundhog Day, temporarily sheltering (now,even more)-in-place Thank heavens … Continue reading
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COVID19 NOTES 2, PLUS
AVOIDING THE VIRAL CONTAGION LIFESTYLE NOTES: We of the poetry group met monthly to have fun with favorite poems. My choices always seemed to be better with a change or two. For instance, Emily Dickinson’s poem “To Make a Prairie” … Continue reading
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