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Year 2 - Day 191- Peace Train
Sep. 24th, 2021 08:32 pmMother: When this year finally ends? I'm going to celebrate.
The only wing under quarantine in the Preston is my father's wing. The rest of the facility is fine. Mother is frustrated. She got to visit with him for two days. That's it. Two days out of three months.
Oh well it could be worse.
She's also still in pain, but it's not severe at least. And she's mobile.
There's a woman who is 91 - that does nothing but scream. The woman's son asked if they could give the woman morphine, and maybe if at all possible? Just a little too much one day - let her die. They said, uh no, we really can't do that. Mother isn't sure what is wrong with this woman - possibly a broken hip or something else? But they can't do anything for her - it seems. So they aren't quite sure why she's even there.
Mother: Really this doesn't bother me at all. It's not distressing or anything.
Me: No, it's just distressing to me apparently. [And I'm not there. She's telling me this, because I can hear moaning and screaming the background.]
So too did a long FB post from a church acquaintance, who is isolated and alone, and undergoing cancer treatment for metasized breast cancer. 2021 - when everyone seemed to get Cancer. Or a lot of acquaintances did. Kind of distressing. ( Read more... )
But after I saw her post - I saw my Senior Minister's - where she's happy, feeling loved, and had been given all sorts of things for her birthday.
And I thought, why is it one person has nothing, and is suffering horribly, and another is on top of the world? The inequalities in this world are staggering. And I wish I didn't see them. I want everyone happy (well except Trump - who I keep hoping would just keel over.).
Also, came across this beautiful video.
Every time I watch it, it makes me cry. Particularly the section where Yusuf/Cat Stevens sings: "oh I've been crying lately, thinking of the world as it is, why must we go on hating, why can't we live in bliss?"
By the way, this is great channel on youtube - Playing Songs for Change - Songs Heard Around the World - Musicians basically play a song around the world and edit it together in one video. It's so beautiful, it makes me cry. Music is my joy.
The Biko one - brings back memories - I feel old. I last saw Peter Gabriele sing that song in 1987 at Wembley Stadium in London, we were sitting until he sang it. Then we stood up and held up lit candles and lighters. Singing it with him.
As a I am writing this, a little brown mouse scooted across the floor. I talked to him and told him to go away. He's not allowed in the house and knows it. Silly thing. I have mouse poison around, but alas not working. Maybe traps next. He is in the other apartment now, or the wall.
Me: I thought about applying for a job with Google, but then I...I don't know how to put it? I imagined myself doing it and realized I do not want to work for Google. ( Read more... )
Why, I wonder, do we continue to hurt each other? There's plenty to share - why can't we do so? No one needs a huge house to themselves, or two or three. No one needs expensive things. You can actually live off of very little. The older I get the more I yearn for a kind of communal living system - where everyone contributes whatever they can, and shares stories.
But such a thing may not be possible within the world in which I currently live?
***
Ah well. It's Friday. And a lovely one weather wise. I even cracked a window. The sky a pristine blue, even as it gets darker with the waning of the light. It's the Fall Equinox, so the days get shorter...until we hit Winter Equinox where they will soon get longer again.
***
Should I stop there? I keep looking for the mouse. I could catch him, I suppose. But I don't know what I'd do with him. Throw him out the window to feed the feral cats? Seems kind of cruel. I'm currently worrying that it isn't a mouse - but I'm pretty certain it is. It had a mouse's tail. And wasn't very big. Also it disappeared underneath the wall.
**
From NY Times Briefing:
* Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the C.D.C. director, overruled her agency’s advice and endorsed boosters for people in risky jobs.
* The Education Department will reimburse a school district after Florida withheld funding over its mask mandate.
* The Times Briefing on German politics - that I couldn't follow due to my brain fog/focus issues - but here's a little of it:
( excerpt )
*A new E.P.A. rule will cut use of a category of planet-warming chemicals, hydrofluorocarbons, in air-conditioners and refrigerators. [ curious if my A/C and fridge have these. Both are new - for the most part. So no clue.]
* The congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack issued its first subpoenas, to four close advisers to Donald Trump. [We're making progress...slowly. Maybe by 2024, he'll be indicted for Treason? You know hope springs eternal and all that...]
*Under pressure from Trump, Texas announced an audit of the 2020 election in four counties. A Republican-ordered review in Arizona’s biggest county slightly widened Biden’s margin of victory. [LOL! Oh that made me giggle. Wouldn't it be awesome if they all did? Maybe Trump could lose Texas and we could prove the Republicans were responsible for the fraud?]
* A senior U.S. diplomat for Haiti quit, citing deportations by the Biden administration. (The U.S. is also letting thousands of Haitians stay.) [Just so we're clear - those parentheses are the Times' not mine. I have no idea what's happening with the Haitian thing, except that it is horrible.]
* The House overwhelmingly approved $1 billion in funding for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system.[Sigh. Can't we help Haiti instead?]
And, since this is labled Corona Virus...and is Year 2 - Day 191 of the Corona Virus Diaries...
COVID
Covid deaths have gone up around the world. ( by the numbers )
( the news round up )
Finally...since you've been so patient...photo of the day.
Interior of Subway Terminal at One World Trade Center.
The only wing under quarantine in the Preston is my father's wing. The rest of the facility is fine. Mother is frustrated. She got to visit with him for two days. That's it. Two days out of three months.
Oh well it could be worse.
She's also still in pain, but it's not severe at least. And she's mobile.
There's a woman who is 91 - that does nothing but scream. The woman's son asked if they could give the woman morphine, and maybe if at all possible? Just a little too much one day - let her die. They said, uh no, we really can't do that. Mother isn't sure what is wrong with this woman - possibly a broken hip or something else? But they can't do anything for her - it seems. So they aren't quite sure why she's even there.
Mother: Really this doesn't bother me at all. It's not distressing or anything.
Me: No, it's just distressing to me apparently. [And I'm not there. She's telling me this, because I can hear moaning and screaming the background.]
So too did a long FB post from a church acquaintance, who is isolated and alone, and undergoing cancer treatment for metasized breast cancer. 2021 - when everyone seemed to get Cancer. Or a lot of acquaintances did. Kind of distressing. ( Read more... )
But after I saw her post - I saw my Senior Minister's - where she's happy, feeling loved, and had been given all sorts of things for her birthday.
And I thought, why is it one person has nothing, and is suffering horribly, and another is on top of the world? The inequalities in this world are staggering. And I wish I didn't see them. I want everyone happy (well except Trump - who I keep hoping would just keel over.).
Also, came across this beautiful video.
Every time I watch it, it makes me cry. Particularly the section where Yusuf/Cat Stevens sings: "oh I've been crying lately, thinking of the world as it is, why must we go on hating, why can't we live in bliss?"
By the way, this is great channel on youtube - Playing Songs for Change - Songs Heard Around the World - Musicians basically play a song around the world and edit it together in one video. It's so beautiful, it makes me cry. Music is my joy.
The Biko one - brings back memories - I feel old. I last saw Peter Gabriele sing that song in 1987 at Wembley Stadium in London, we were sitting until he sang it. Then we stood up and held up lit candles and lighters. Singing it with him.
As a I am writing this, a little brown mouse scooted across the floor. I talked to him and told him to go away. He's not allowed in the house and knows it. Silly thing. I have mouse poison around, but alas not working. Maybe traps next. He is in the other apartment now, or the wall.
Me: I thought about applying for a job with Google, but then I...I don't know how to put it? I imagined myself doing it and realized I do not want to work for Google. ( Read more... )
Why, I wonder, do we continue to hurt each other? There's plenty to share - why can't we do so? No one needs a huge house to themselves, or two or three. No one needs expensive things. You can actually live off of very little. The older I get the more I yearn for a kind of communal living system - where everyone contributes whatever they can, and shares stories.
But such a thing may not be possible within the world in which I currently live?
***
Ah well. It's Friday. And a lovely one weather wise. I even cracked a window. The sky a pristine blue, even as it gets darker with the waning of the light. It's the Fall Equinox, so the days get shorter...until we hit Winter Equinox where they will soon get longer again.
***
Should I stop there? I keep looking for the mouse. I could catch him, I suppose. But I don't know what I'd do with him. Throw him out the window to feed the feral cats? Seems kind of cruel. I'm currently worrying that it isn't a mouse - but I'm pretty certain it is. It had a mouse's tail. And wasn't very big. Also it disappeared underneath the wall.
**
From NY Times Briefing:
* Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the C.D.C. director, overruled her agency’s advice and endorsed boosters for people in risky jobs.
* The Education Department will reimburse a school district after Florida withheld funding over its mask mandate.
* The Times Briefing on German politics - that I couldn't follow due to my brain fog/focus issues - but here's a little of it:
( excerpt )
*A new E.P.A. rule will cut use of a category of planet-warming chemicals, hydrofluorocarbons, in air-conditioners and refrigerators. [ curious if my A/C and fridge have these. Both are new - for the most part. So no clue.]
* The congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack issued its first subpoenas, to four close advisers to Donald Trump. [We're making progress...slowly. Maybe by 2024, he'll be indicted for Treason? You know hope springs eternal and all that...]
*Under pressure from Trump, Texas announced an audit of the 2020 election in four counties. A Republican-ordered review in Arizona’s biggest county slightly widened Biden’s margin of victory. [LOL! Oh that made me giggle. Wouldn't it be awesome if they all did? Maybe Trump could lose Texas and we could prove the Republicans were responsible for the fraud?]
* A senior U.S. diplomat for Haiti quit, citing deportations by the Biden administration. (The U.S. is also letting thousands of Haitians stay.) [Just so we're clear - those parentheses are the Times' not mine. I have no idea what's happening with the Haitian thing, except that it is horrible.]
* The House overwhelmingly approved $1 billion in funding for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system.[Sigh. Can't we help Haiti instead?]
And, since this is labled Corona Virus...and is Year 2 - Day 191 of the Corona Virus Diaries...
COVID
Covid deaths have gone up around the world. ( by the numbers )
( the news round up )
Finally...since you've been so patient...photo of the day.
Interior of Subway Terminal at One World Trade Center.