I have been on clean and organize the house modefor the last few days. I want to make sure everything is in place "in case". I have been reorganizing cupboards to see what I truly have and have requested my 20 something children, one who is now home from college, deep clean their rooms. They have been working on it for some time.
We all made breakfast together and we opened some gifts. I had picked up some nice beauty spa type products after Christmas for a really good price and decided to wrap them and have everyone open them for a "pick me up".
Someone mentioned that their vet is now doing curbside service. Ours sent an email saying they were too. That is a good thing.
One of my daughters discovered that a local Mexican restaurant is doing take out margaritas in a bottle. How interesting. I would assume some very enterprising people will find ways to keep their businesses alive over the next few months.
Just got off the phone with an old friend and was so glad to hear her voice. She and I caught up. Normally we would be looking forward to spending time together at a retreat in May. She remarked that she has been doing a lot of sewing but now she is tired of it and wants to go out and do stuff-- I laughed and said it is probably because we have been told this week that we can't! We shared a good chuckle. Ordinarily we would meet up for coffee or something again after a call like this. We briefly discussed it but decided not to risk it.
Anyhow I realize she might have tried to contact me via Facebook but I have given Facebook, Instagram and Twitter-- all self identifying social media-- all up for Lent and Easter isn't for another 3 weeks. How could I have known that this Lenten season would contain such dramatic changes and events? I mean, I expected I would miss out on primary discussions but... Man! So I realized I had not had contact with my sister in a little while and sent her off an email. My sister lives in Tennessee in the Nashville area.
I also want to echo what everyone has said about Gov. Cuomo! He is my governor! I have always been a big fan of his. He has political courage. After the mass murder in the elementary school in CT, he made changes to the laws in NY regarding guns, ammunition and cartridges. This caused a lot of criticism but he stood firm. It hurt him in the last election from the 2nd Amendment people. I really liked his father too.
There are only 3 questions reporters should be asking Mango Menace:
1. Why are you still here?
2. How many more Americans have to die before you leave?
3. You do know that no one likes you, right?
Oh man, could you even imagine?!
The thought of that reminds me of being kids on the 4th of July with firecrackers. You light them and RUN...then turn around and watch them all pop, pop, pop.
It would be entertaining - in a scary way - to watch the complete meltdown that would proceed from those questions. But maybe it would speed up the process of him leaving!
First of all, welcome!
Thank you very much for sharing this poem. It is powerful and stirring. She founds words to say so well what I have been feeling too.
Thank you.
You are so truly welcomed!
I have been looking and waiting for Bear wisdom for a long while.
Waiting for Bear to come forth from his hibernation and to look at his new world after the long sleep of winter's fast.
And here you are!
Bringing us this gift as if carried like a salmon from the clenched and now releasing jaws of his own mouth that not only feeds itself but feeds its young.
And in this world where so many feel so very young, only wanting to be with groups, feeling alive only with the constant feeding of far too many news bites, it was true nourishment that we truly needed, true nourishment of spirit that we were truly craving.
And with your deep Bear wisdom you have brought and dropped this beautiful shining gem of truth into our now partly closed and almost lulled to sleep, exhausted mouths.
Our mouths wearing of endless talking not listening of endless yawning and fawning and wishing and hoping and praying for more.
You brought us this gift it its maker --deep and true and inspired poetry of the creator through its earth maker--Kristin Flintz from her deep and true and so beautifully inspired and spoken and continually shared mother earth wisdom.
And it sings to my aching soul and reminds me not to miss out on today's long walk into the wisdom of our father the sun, or the embrace of our mother, the earth.
Thank you and bless you from the bottom of my heart for this great gift. It spoke to every part of me and it truly reminded me if why I am here and how I must now refocus on the stories my own earthly elders and ancestors taught me.
Stories as they raised me in the heart of my true nature of my breathing in that truth every day in every way I knew I could . I honor that in me as I honor that in you.
Thank you Silver Bear for your being this great messenger just when it might help me the most. Thank you and welcome.
Some positive news: Per the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, there may be a "Stop Gap" solution for Covid-19 patients to prevent & treat which could roll out by this Summer. Not a vaccine (that will take 12-18 months to be formally tested & approved) but, instead, uses the antibodies found in the blood plasma of recovered Covid-19 patients. China has been using this successfully. Theoretically, one recovered patients' plasma could potentially help two ill patients. Found this article embedded in a NY Times article this morning. God bless science!!
Some positive news: Per the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, there may be a "Stop Gap" solution for Covid-19 patients to prevent & treat which could roll out by this Summer. Not a vaccine (that will take 12-18 months to be formally tested & approved) but, instead, uses the antibodies found in the blood plasma of recovered Covid-19 patients. China has been using this successfully. Theoretically, one recovered patients' plasma could potentially help two ill patients. Found this article embedded in a NY Times article this morning. God bless science!!
I had been thinking it would be good to harvest plasma from the recovered to develop a stop gap vaccine, glad it's being given serious consideration.
In a related story, we have a friend who works at a local hospital in their genome project. He told us they are getting ready to start drive-thru testing AND they need asymptomatic controls, so we'll be participating in that as soon as he gives us the green light (I am asymptomatic at this point, even though I wasn't a couple of weeks ago). It's not a RNA test nor an IGg/IGm, not sure what it is, but happy to donate a cheek swab to science, and since my hubby never got sick this winter, curious if he's a carrier.
As packages arrive into your home, please keep a can of lysol by the door and spray it BEFORE you touch the package and open it and put it inside your home. Discard the packaging and wash your hands of course! :) ?
Thanks, @triciact! I took a wrong turn into crazytown yesterday morning, but am grateful that I didn't spend too much time there.
Also want to say that it sometimes pays being a geezer -- this morning I got to shop at Whole Foods an hour before the store opened, devoted to patrons 60+. A little surreal, but nice.
Just finished listened to Cuomo's press conference again this morning. I hope MSNBC carries him each day at the same time, because if so, I'm watching. He calmed any anxiety I was feeling. Like yesterday, he was very straightforward, hopeful, uplifting, inspiring -- after listening to him, you believe what he's telling you and want to do your part.
Accompanied with a Powerpoint presentation, Cuomo gave updates on some of what he talked about yesterday morning, and spent some time discussing the emotional toll from the social isolation -- whether you're living alone, or cooped up with people. (He mentioned that he lives alone, and sometimes his dog is getting on his nerves!) Cuomo also acknowledged all of our fears. He spoke, in an inspirational way, about how dealing with hardships makes us stronger, as he referenced the WWII generation. He said that we can face these challenges and adversity. That we will overcome this and be greater for it.
My husband watched in rapt attention, afterwards commenting: It's like T**** is this hideous, desolate wasteland, and Cuomo is this rising oasis. I couldn't have said it better. I realize that as governor, Cuomo has made some decisions that have angered some people, but yikes! -- what an incredible leader. God bless him and keep him safe and well.