5 NE Ohio counties at CDC’s ‘high’ community level for COVID-19 | wkyc.com

Due to a rise in COVID-related hospitalizations, health experts now recommend mask wearing for residents in Erie, Huron, Lorain, Mahoning, and Trumbull counties.

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A lost treasure

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“What is a treasure that’s been lost?” was the question in the Bloganuary prompt.

The image that immediately came to mind was an illustration from “Treasure Island,” by the remarkable nineteenth century traveler, thinker and writer Robert Louis Stevenson. Various versions of this map include an “X marks the spot,” where the treasure is likely to be found. At the end of the story, I believe it is divided up among various characters in the story – remember Long John Silver, and Ben Gunn?

This is apparently the original map from Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Treasure Island.” The treasure is there, somewhere.

Sometimes, however, the treasure is not hidden, or buried. Sometimes it is right in front of you, or just down the road. It may not be a chest full of gold, but it has value; or it once had value.

Sadly, in our ever-changing, but sometimes sad and worn…

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Tearing It Down, Not Making It Great … — Filosofa’s Word

We’ve become so used to hearing the term ‘maga’ that perhaps we’ve forgotten what those four letters were originally intended to stand for (though they never did): “make America great again”.  It was the campaign slogan for the former guy back in 2015-2016 and should have gone into the dung heap thereafter, for he did […]

Tearing It Down, Not Making It Great … — Filosofa’s Word

♫ Eve of Destruction ♫ (Redux) — Filosofa’s Word

Interestingly, I played this one on January 6th, 2021, the day the U.S. Capitol and our Congress were attacked by armed insurrectionists attempting to overthrow a free and fair election on behalf of a madman.  Today … there is another form of insurrection taking place within that same building.  Yes, I know I’ve played this […]

♫ Eve of Destruction ♫ (Redux) — Filosofa’s Word

French Fridays Libri Library Review: Voyage au centre de la terre, by Jules Verne

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

Once again, thank you to Librivox.org, and thank you to Birgit for recommending this book (which I find much better than the film, personally, as I recall it).  And I am STILL Waiting on pins and needles, triple argh!!!, as I schedule this for Lupin Part 3 to start up again, with Omar Sy!!!

This was a hard book to rate, since there were lots of readers, some not so good.  I can definitely say that I loved the nephew!
(Just ask if I forget any translations from my reading updates…)
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Bon, c’est pas facile de dire comment j’ai aimais, ou pas, ce livre, cars il y avait plein de lecteurs, pas tous bien.

Ce que c’est sur c’est que j’adore ce brave jeune garçon !

“…et c’est un défaut regrettable chez un orateur.”

🙂 Merci Emy !!

Une excellente lectrice !”

Je l’ecoutes par https://librivox.org/voyage-au-centre

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