Comforting Thought: A changing clothesline

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Taken from a short and sweet book of insights about life, love and loss by Mary McEvoy…

As life goes on, the clothesline diminishes again, families part, spouses leave or die. The clothesline now displays a gender specific wardrobe of perhaps an adventurous widow, or an ordered man on his own in neat contentment. I don’t find this sad because it just means life goes on and has many phases, and each phase has its meaning and purpose. It must be lived and so many people live it so well.

But what strikes me most about the clothes on the line is their fragility. They are like us who wear them, ordinary, lovely, mundane and heroic, blown and buffeted, animated by that which we cannot see.

Ordinary Beauty: Meaningful Moments in Everyday Life by Mary McEvoy

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Virginia Woolf

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” […] como o romance tem essa correspondência com a vida real, seus valores são, numa certa medida, os da vida real. Mas é óbvio que os valores das mulheres diferem, com frequência, dos que foram feitos pelo outro sexo; isso acontece, naturalmente. E, no entanto, são valores masculinos que prevalecem. Falando cruzamente, o futebol e o esporte são ” importantes “; o culto da moda e a compra de roupas são ” insignificantes”. E esses valores são inevitavelmente transferidos da vida para ficção. Esse é um livro importante, pressupõe o crítico, porque lida com a guerra. Esse é um livro insignificante, pois lida com os sentimentos das mulheres numa sala de visitas. “

Virginia Woolf, livro Um Teto Todo Seu.

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Santarém, Pá 12 de julho de 2022

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Sri Lanka’s Gotabaya Rajapaksa fails in effort to flee country | Sri Lanka | The Guardian

It appears that the president has attempted to follow several avenues of escape in recent days but all have proved futile. The Indian government reportedly refused permission for a Sri Lankan military plane carrying the president to land at an Indian civilian airport, while the US embassy refused to grant him a visitor visa, according to US embassy sources who spoke to local media.

Rajapaksa, who lived in the US for years and has a son and grandchild there, gave up his dual US citizenship in order to run for president, which means he is now ineligible for a visitor visa.

According to officials who spoke to Agence France-Presse, Rajapaksa was now considering using a navy patrol craft to try to flee the island, to either the Maldives or India and then on to Dubai, and he and his entourage had left the military base in two helicopters on Tuesday and headed to the port of Trincomalee.

While he is still president, Rajapaksa enjoys immunity from arrest. It is believed he wants to go abroad before stepping down to avoid the possibility of being detained. He is accused of overseeing corruption and economic mismanagement that have bankrupted the country and triggered the worst financial crisis on record.

He has also been accused of war crimes, including enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings, during his time as defence minister, when he brought the civil war, fought against the Tamil minority, to a bloody end in 2009. For more than a decade the allegations against him have been prevented from reaching the courts.

The president was not the only member of the family unsuccessfully trying to flee. His younger brother Basil Rajapaksa, who served as finance minister and has also been accused of widespread corruption, was prevented from boarding a flight to the US via Dubai on Tuesday morning after other passengers protested.

Airport staff refused to let him use the fast-track concierge service and stopped him getting on the flight. According to airport officials, as the situation grew tense, Basil Rajapaksa, who has dual US citizenship, retreated.

Source: Sri Lanka’s Gotabaya Rajapaksa fails in effort to flee country | Sri Lanka | The Guardian

Getty opens access to 30,000 images of black diaspora in UK and US | Photography | The Guardian

Getty Images, which holds one of the largest photo collections in the world, announced on Tuesday that it would make these photos free to use for not-for-profit or educational purposes. The collection will grant access to images for educators, researchers and content creators, allowing them to tell untold stories from black history and culture that go beyond narratives of enslavement and colonisation. Source: Getty opens access to 30,000 images of black diaspora in UK and US | Photography | The Guardian

Biden administration announces new strategy to tackle Covid subvariant | US news | The Guardian

The White House said it would increase efforts to get more people vaccinated, particularly in areas where BA.5 is spreading most rapidly, and it encouraged Americans to test themselves regularly.

The announcement came as the Washington Post reported that Biden administration officials are working on a plan to make second booster vaccine shots available to adults under age 50 in a bid to tackle BA.5 and BA.4, another highly contagious Omicron subvariant.

For now, adults over 50 and people over 12 who are immunocompromised are eligible for a second booster four months after receiving their first.

The new plan, which is yet to be approved by regulators, “has the backing” of the White House Covid-19 coordinator, Ashish Jha, and the government’s top infectious-disease expert, Anthony Fauci, according to the Post.

Source: Biden administration announces new strategy to tackle Covid subvariant | US news | The Guardian

On The Cutting Board

yaskhan

Said the cutting board to the knife 
When you do your chop chop
All the veggies go drop drop
Cut up to be curried
In no way hurried
Steamed, stir fried
Pickled or dried
All nutrients supplied
On farmers relied
When the sky opened up cried
The soil that crumbled n died
lived and freshened and happily sighed

When the veggies went under the knife
to be skinned and chopped
they became a gourmet delight
making digestion alright.

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India To Become World’s Most Populous Country In 2023, UN Says – Slashdot

The report, from the population division of the U.N.’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs, said China and India were each home to over 1.4 billion people in 2022. “India is projected to surpass China as the world’s most populous country during 2023,” the U.N. said. The Indian government’s census for 2011 put the country’s population at more than 1.2 billion. “The global human population will reach 8.0 billion in mid-November 2022 from an estimated 2.5 billion people in 1950,” according to the U.N.’s report.

Source: India To Become World’s Most Populous Country In 2023, UN Says – Slashdot