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We will all one day — Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

Dương Diên Hồng (source: the poet’s social media page) A poem in Vietnamese by Dương Diên Hồng Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm We will all one day… – We will all one day be plagued with loneliness. it’s only natural at a busy intersection in the middle of a crowd and we’re still sad… – […]

We will all one day — Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm
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There’ll come a day

Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

Dương Diên Hồng (source: the poet’s social media page)

A poem in Vietnamese by Dương Diên Hồng

Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

THERE’LL COME A DAY…

They’ll come a day when your garden will be full of flowers

Birds singing dancing on the lawn

A sawfly may build a nest there and may accidentally bite you

and that’s fine

they merely want us to slow down

don’t be in such a hurry to sweep away the yellow leaves

they were green once on the branches…

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June 2022

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SẼ CÓ…

Sẽ có một ngày vườn nhà đầy hoa

Những con chim nhỏ tha hồ chạy nhảy

Ong lá đến làm tổ đậu trên tay lỡ đốt

cũng không sao

các em ấy nhắc mình

những chiếc lá vàng đừng quét vội

hôm qua từng là lá xanh…

Dương Diên Hồng, the poet is retired school teacher from Tây Ninh…

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Jamaicans are eating way too much salt, a new Health Ministry study shows

The salt study comes against the background of concerning statistics for hypertension (high blood pressure) among Jamaicans. One in 3 Jamaicans are hypertensive – 35.8% women and 31.7% men, according to the Jamaica Health and Lifestyle Survey for 2016/17. Four out of every 10 people with the disease are unaware of their status – 60% men and 26% women. At the same time, more and more Jamaicans aged 15 to 74 years old are developing hypertension. In 2017, 31.5% of persons in this age group had high blood pressure compared to 20.9% in 2001.

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My husband has regularly complained at our local cook shop about the high levels of salt in their otherwise quite good dishes. The chef maintains that all that salt is necessary – and that is what his customers want. So, he has lost one customer.

And what of the children? Perhaps this will come later in the Ministry of Health and Wellness study on the awfully high levels of salt in the Jamaican diet (see their press release below). A television report this evening noted that vendors outside the Oracabessa High School “are ready to provide healthier options for students.” I know a draft school nutrition policy is in the works, and hope that this will include a reduction in salty foods as well as sugary snacks and drinks (the report did not mention salt). Kudos to vendor Sophia Jones Anderson, who is really trying! There are other issues though:…

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Texas state police deflect blame in Uvalde shooting failures | The Texas Tribune

Instead of taking charge when it became clear that neither the school’s police chief nor the Uvalde Police Department had assumed command, DPS contributed to the 74-minute chaotic response that did not end until a Border Patrol tactical unit that arrived much later entered the classroom and killed the gunman.

“Here’s what DPS should have done as soon as they got there,” said Patrick O’Burke, a law enforcement consultant and former DPS commander who retired in 2008. “They should have contacted [the school police chief] and said: ‘We’re here. We have people.’ They should have just organized everything, said, ‘What are all of our resources?’ And they should have organized the breach.”

Source: Texas state police deflect blame in Uvalde shooting failures | The Texas Tribune