Ecuador’s Constitutional Court Applies “Rights of Nature” in order to Safeguard Protected Forest! — Olympic Peninsula Environmental News — Barbara Crane Navarro

ECUADOR: View from the observation tower of rising mist from the rainforest canopy (Photo by Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images) What could this have to do with the Olympic Peninsula? Well, just a few months ago, our Department of Natural Resources decided that putting 80,000 bags of oysters inside a National Wildlife Reserve was a […]

Ecuador’s Constitutional Court Applies “Rights of Nature” in order to Safeguard Protected Forest! — Olympic Peninsula Environmental News — Barbara Crane Navarro

We Could Be So Much Better …

Filosofa's Word

A comment from our friend Larry a few days ago opened the doors to a train of thought … well, it was a train I was already on, but Larry’s comment bought me a longer ticket on that train.  His comment was in response to my post titled Remember, about International Holocaust Remembrance Day and a warning that in many ways, we humans around the globe seem to be on a path to similar destruction …

“We are the only species on earth that doesn’t fit into the scheme of things.”

For the past several days, my mind had been going in a similar, yet vague direction.  My thoughts were along the lines of how different humans are from any other species.  Notice that I said ‘different’ … not better.  Humans have shown themselves capable of many things … some beneficial, others destructive even to their own well-being.

No…

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A Native American Prayer 2/4

The daily addict

Oh Great Spirit : Whose voice I hear in the winds, And whose breath gives life to all the world

Hear me for I am small and weak, I need your strength and wisdom.

Let me walk in beauty and make my eyes ever behold the red and purple sunset.

Make my hands respect the things you’ve made and my ears sharp to hear your voice.

Make me wise so that I may understand the things you have taught my people.

Let me learn the lessons you have hidden in every leaf and every rock.

I seek strength not to be greater than my brother but to fight my greatest enemy – myself.

Make me always ready to come to you with clean hands and straight eyes.

So when life fades as the fading sunset, my spirit may come to you without shame.

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Coronavirus Update From New York City: February 3, 2022

Blind Injustice

I hope all of my readers are remaining healthy and safe, regardless of where you live.

I thankfully continue to remain COVID-free. I am grateful for that because, to be honest, even among those I know who have “mild” symptoms, there can still be certain symptoms that linger for quite a few weeks after they first test positive. For example, I know of people who, even though they have mostly recovered from the virus, still have lingering coughs that they are so incredibly tired of. Even “mild” COVID is no fun, albeit it is nothing compared to landing in the hospital with the virus.

Where I live, cases continue to decrease, and the number per cases per 100,000 people is at its lowest level since right before the holidays. Such numbers (as well as numbers when it comes to the percentage of people testing positive) is still relatively high compared…

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Writing/Cleaning + Miss Bekah’s Growth/Change + Pod19: Covid + Books

Happiness Between Tails by da-AL

Blogger/writer Rebekah of MissBekah Productions.
Blogger/writer Rebekah of MissBekah Productions.

https://anchor.fm/depe9

Click H-E-R-E for my new podcast page at AnchorFM. This week’s audio show is the audio version of “COVID, Friendship, Writing, and Books: We’re better” that you can read the text version of H-E-R-E.

At the Happiness Between Tails podcast page, you’ll also find links to subscribe, hear, and share it via most any platform, from Spotify and Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts and Breaker, to Pocket Casts and RadioPublic and Castbox and Stitcher, plus an RSS feed. The full list of 50+ places is H-E-R-E.

This week, I’ve been doing some writing, but not as much as I’d like (H-E-R-E’s more about my novels) — for quite a happy reason! My husband and I are getting ready for an extended visit by my brother-in-law.

First, though, regarding the podcast at the start of this post, over the time…

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German vaccine body backs fourth COVID-19 shot for most vulnerable | News | DW | 03.02.2022

Germany’s expert vaccine commission, the Standing Committee on Vaccination (STIKO), came out on Thursday in favor of fourth COVID-19 vaccine doses — or second booster shots — for people belonging to particularly at-risk groups.

The commission recommended that people aged 70 and over, people with immunodeficiency, and people who live in in care facilities, as well as employees of care and medical facilities, should all be given a fourth dose.

Source: German vaccine body backs fourth COVID-19 shot for most vulnerable | News | DW | 03.02.2022