Comforting Thought: Hiding and hibernation are a part of the natural world

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In the natural world, hiding is a way of staying alive. It’s a way of holding ourselves until we are ready to come to light.

Hiding is a part of the natural world. It is in the protective quiet of the icy northern landscape. In the held bud of a future summer rose. In the snow-bound and slow pulse of a hibernating bear.

We hide in our mother’s womb until we grow and ready ourselves for our first appearance in the lighted world.

We live in a time of immediate disclosure. Our thoughts, imaginings and longings are exposed to light too much, too early and too often. What is real is almost always, to begin with, hidden.

Hiding is an act of freedom from the misunderstanding of others.

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Day 11/67 of High School in Five Months, Perspectives, and libraries

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

Books, film, and other forms of media, like comic books, aka graphic novels, and music can all help us see the world from a new perspective.   Books and other works that are in the public domain are made accessible by volunteer libraries, like the one compiled by LibriVox, or Project Gutenberg.   Libraries of various kinds are one of the key parts of our democracy, and therefore, of Phase I of the Four Freedoms movement :

 

Day 11 Lesson Plan
Khan Academy practice activity on intensifiers and adverbs of degree
Khan Academy Subject-Verb agreement if you need more practice
optional Khan Academy reading: Perspectives (Hunters vs. Farmers)

Khan Academy activity on Dividing by 10, 100, 1000

Day11 ExitSlips 

(Day 10Day 12)

Action Items:

1.) Download some public domain version of a classic book, or grab your favorite version of the The Arabian…

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The Solution For Plastic Pollution Should be Advertised

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We can build environmental protection awareness in a brand new way

And help children to start planning for a brighter day

The Manufacturers of plastic packaging can advertise the solutions for plastic pollution

They can help a lot more people on the planet to make better decisions

Since greenhouse gas in the atmosphere has become a huge problem

It is time to look at every plastic container we use and think of new ways to reuse, reduce or recycle them

Photo by Oleg Magni on Pexels.com

Since the companies find so many ways to advertise these products each day

They can advertise the solutions to for plastic pollution in a great way

There would be less littering and better waste management

When people understand why they should protect the environment

These manufacturers should not continue to add to the plastic pollution problem each day

Without thinking about helping people to…

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The soya curse: Is Ukraine facing the same fate as the Amazon? | openDemocracy (Me: GM crop not the greatest danger – Mono-cropping any single cloned seed runs the risk of triggering new crop viruses and bacterium that could wipe out entire nation or region’s crop is the danger)

Volodymyr Onatskyi runs a small company selling manure and seeds to farmers in eastern Ukraine. He is increasingly worried about the pace with which big conglomerates are buying up fertile land in the country, depleting soils and polluting fresh water sources by their massive use of chemicals.

Villagers also believe the big farms are illegally planting genetically modified (GM) soya. “The big companies plant them anyway, and in the process contaminate the fields of conventional farmers. That’s what people around here suspect, at least. Because finding out what’s really going on is often very difficult in a country like Ukraine,” Onatskyi said.

Source: The soya curse: Is Ukraine facing the same fate as the Amazon? | openDemocracy

Chernobyl: the ghost town – Magic Mixture を

The greatest nuclear tragedy in Soviet Ukraine occurred at Plant V. I. Lenin, located in the city of Pripyat. As human beings are unable to live in this region, due to radiation, the place has become a paradise for wildlife.

Of course, in general, radiation caused damage not just for man, as for fauna and flora, but over the years, nature was adapting and starting to sprout again, and with vast vegetation, animals also started to appear again.

In research carried out by ecologist Serhiy Gashchak, animals that live in the Red Forest, a region with high radiation, have adapted well to the place. Animals that live in nearby areas, when placed in the Forest, have not been able to adapt as well as the natives of the region. In other words, over the years a genetic mutation has occurred in these animals, but nothing that affects natural life, such as the appearance of a second head.

To this day, the question of how the city that was razed to the ground by a nuclear accident is a great mystery.

Source: Chernobyl: the ghost town – Magic Mixture を

LA County Workers Want The COVID-19 Shot Deadline Extended As They Negotiate Exemptions | LAist (Me: Covid-19 does not care about your negotiating time, it strikes when it wants to and kills – all too often)

Union representatives for L.A. County’s 102,000 employees say the Friday deadline for their members to be fully vaccinated is “unreasonable” and a “scare tactic.” They want an extension as they negotiate over a range of issues — including a testing option and broader religious and medical exemptions.

SEIU 721, which represents more than 55,000 workers, also wants the county to allow people who are reluctant to get the shot to get regular tests for the virus instead.

The County CEO’s office said in a statement it could not comment on the specifics of the negotiations but said L.A. “will be in full compliance with all federal and state laws.”

Source: LA County Workers Want The COVID-19 Shot Deadline Extended As They Negotiate Exemptions | LAist

La Journée des peuples autochtones est une fête célébrée dans les pays colonisés pour honorer les peuples autochtones et commémorer leurs histoires et leurs cultures – tandis que les gouvernements et les entreprises continuent de piller et et voler les territoires autochtones !

Barbara Crane Navarro

Aux États-Unis, la Journée des peuples autochtones a évolué comme une alternative à «la jour d’invasion » – Columbus Day – qui célébrait l’arrivée de Christophe Colomb dans le Nouveau Monde le 12 octobre 1492 et le début de la colonisation de l’Amérique du Nord.

Les Amérindiens ont protesté contre l’idée d’honorer un homme qui avait permis leur génocide et leur assimilation forcée.

Les Français « découvrent » l’Amérique du Nord selon les livres d’«histoire» au Canada

Partout en Amérique du Nord aujourd’hui, les luttes autochtones contre les mines et les oléoducs qui devraient traverser les sites sacrés ou les sources d’eau de leurs communautés sont toujours en cours. Ils appellent le gouvernement à «honorer les traités! et de reconnaître que «L’eau c’est la vie! »

Parmi eux, le Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) met en danger l’approvisionnement en eau de la réserve Standing Rock Sioux sur la rivière Missouri.

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Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2021 — All That Philly Jazz

Barbara Crane Navarro

The recently released National Monument Audit produced by Monument Lab found that only Abraham Lincoln (193) and George Washington (171) have more public statues than Christopher Columbus (149). At the height of the George Floyd protests, calls grew louder for Philadelphia to remove the Columbus statue in Marconi Plaza. So far, Mayor Jim Kenney has[…]

Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2021 — All That Philly Jazz

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Completing a circle — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

Barbara Crane Navarro

Originally posted on LANDBACK Friends: I first learned about the Wet’suwet’en peoples in British Columbia when I saw this YouTube video, Coastal Gaslink Evicted from Unist’ot’en Territory, January 5, 2020. Having worked so hard to protect water from the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, I was amazed to see this peaceful eviction ofa…

Completing a circle — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

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