Magnolia Reveries

yaskhan

Alphabets become jeweled figurines
Like studded stars drip-dropping
Sparkling confetti on a magnolia vignette...
I sit in quiet solitude breathing in the solace of sepia memories...crocheting a borealis in my solstice day
Syllables of Monet hues flame
A potpourri of poesies
Galaxy's champagne
Serenades my rosette fire
Kaleidoscopic eloquence
Needling a mantle of chrome waltzes
A phonographic euphoria
Etching a musky interlude
Of shared tears
Radiating scarlet of an Amaryllis quill...

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INVESTIGADORES DEL CONICET SE MANIFIESTAN CONTRA MEGAMINERÍA EN CATAMARCA — Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros de América Latina

Barbara Crane Navarro

13/05/2021 Consideran preocupantes declaraciones recientes del gobierno catamarqueño en las que afirma que avanzará con los proyectos mineros en la provincia, a pesar de que estos no cuentan con licencia social. 983 morewords

INVESTIGADORES DEL CONICET SE MANIFIESTAN CONTRA MEGAMINERÍA EN CATAMARCA — Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros de América Latina

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1 mil. COVID-19 vaccine doses donated by Japan delivered to Vietnam

Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long indicated the donated vaccine, developed by Britain’s AstraZeneca Plc, will be distributed mainly in Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam where cases are increasing.

Vietnam had confirmed 11,635 infections as of Wednesday, but about 70 percent of them were confirmed in May or later.

Japan donated 1.24 million AstraZeneca shots to Taiwan earlier in the month.

Tokyo is also considering donating COVID-19 vaccines to Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand in July, according to Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi.

Source: 1 mil. COVID-19 vaccine doses donated by Japan delivered to Vietnam

Japan to start issuing vaccine passports in July

Japan plans to issue so-called vaccine passports from around mid- to late July as more activities around the world open up to people who have been vaccinated against the coronavirus, the nation’s top government spokesman said Thursday.

The government is asking other countries to exempt travelers carrying the documents that officially certify their vaccination status from quarantine or to shorten the quarantine period, government sources said earlier.

Source: Japan to start issuing vaccine passports in July

Filipina Heroine

Pacific Paratrooper

Magdalena Leones Magdalena Leones

The Silver Star is the third-highest honor for gallantry in the U.S. Armed Forces. Previous recipients include Audie Murphy, Chuck Yeager, and Norman Schwartzkopf. But few people have heard of Magdalena Leones – she was a Filipino woman that served as a guerrilla soldier under U.S. command in World War II.

Leones was in her 20s when she joined the Philippine-American military effort. She is part of a small group of women – and is the only Filipino woman – to receive the award for her heroism. She died on June 16th in Richmond, California at 96-years old.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors recognized her on June 28. “We are diminished by the passing of Corporal Magdalena Leones, Silver Star Filipina World War II veteran — the only Asian to receive this honor,” Supervisor Jane Kim said. “Corporal Leones has paved the way for many…

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Moon Fin

Michael Stephen Wills Photography

Driving from the Petrified Forest National Park my son, Sean, and I arrived at Chinle, Arizona the evening of Monday, November 2, 2003. No time to rest or eat after checking into the Best Western he and I reached the White House overlook and trail head with the sun low in the sky, the sun sets 6:45 pm these last few days of Daylight Savings. The Navajo Reservation observes Daylight Savings, so the click jumps crossing the border from Arizona to Reservation.

I was 50 at the time and with Sean graduated from SUNY Maritime and fresh from a tour at sea we made good time to the canyon floor. I wanted to catch the White House in the setting sun.

One morning, 14 years later, I published a fine art photograph from that trip.

Looking along the canyon, over thick stands of Russian Olives, I caught the risen moon…

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