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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Andes Creme De Menthe Chocolate Cookies — In Dianes Kitchen

These cookies are not just delicious, but they leave your mouth minty and refreshed. I can’t think of a better reason to eat cookies, can you? In a large bowl add the brown sugar, shortening, water and vanilla extract. Stir until combined and creamy. Add the eggs and stir until combined thoroughly. In a small […]

Andes Creme De Menthe Chocolate Cookies — In Dianes Kitchen

UC requires COVID boosters, weighs online start amid Omicron – Los Angeles Times

UCLA and six other University of California undergraduate campuses announced Tuesday that classes will begin remotely at the start of the new term, as colleges throughout the nation wrestle with plans for a safe return after winter break amid an increasingly serious surge of the Omicron coronavirus variant.

Additionally, all eligible students and staff in the 10-campus UC system will be required to provide proof that they have received a COVID-19 booster shot, officials announced.

Source: UC requires COVID boosters, weighs online start amid Omicron – Los Angeles Times

San Jose wants to require COVID-19 booster shots – Los Angeles Times

San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo announced the proposal Tuesday. If approved by the City Council, it would require all San Jose city employees to receive booster shots as a condition of employment and anyone who enters city-owned facilities to do the same. Source: San Jose wants to require COVID-19 booster shots – Los Angeles Times

Good People Doing Good Things — Holiday Spirit

Filosofa's Word

If it’s Wednesday … wait … hold on … IT’S WEDNESDAY ALREADY???  No, it can’t be … only … 1 … 2 … 3 more days ‘til Christmas???  Where has the week gone?  Where has December gone?  For that matter, where has the YEAR gone???  😱

Now, as I was saying … if it’s Wednesday, it must be time to set aside the angst, the characters that bring about mounds of snark and rants and turn instead to some good people.  Turns out, I found a couple without even looking and I think they will help us all to remember what the spirit of the season really is.


Turquoise LeJeune Parker is a library teacher at Lakewood Elementary School in Durham, North Carolina.  Ms. Parker ends every class by telling each of her students she loves them, and it isn’t just words … she shows them in so many…

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Working Wednesdays, Umbrella Project Do Better, From Rough Draft to 3rd Draft

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

     (credit and thanks to The Atlantic for image, I make nothing from it.)

        This post is the start of the rough draft of  Chapter 7, section III, part A, for my non-fiction WiP, Do Better, fka Baby Floors (fka Baby Acres, or Acre Baby…).    This section will complete the early years of mapping out a path to get there for Phase I, with our Public Domain Social Infrastructure.    It’s here for comparison, because I can’t bear the pain of letting the original version of this idea go without at least a whimper. 

    Comment on Part I: Dreaming, in Draft 3 changes Do Better into a much more community project oriented book, as I prepare to pass on the torch.    To comment on chapter 7, in Part II: Engineering, look here

Putting a floor on poverty so that each and every baby born…

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Un viaje verdaderamente mágico – « La Magia de la Amazonia Las aventuras de Meromi, una niña Yanomami » — Barbara Crane Navarro

ilustración de « Amazon Rainforest Magic – Las aventuras de Meromi, una niña Yanomami » « El segundo volumen de la serie Amazon Rainforest Magic narra el sorprendente viaje de Meromi, una niña Yanomami que se ve envuelta en una aventura inesperada en los ríos y selvas del Amazonas. Es un viaje verdaderamente mágico para Meromi a medida […]

Un viaje verdaderamente mágico – « La Magia de la Amazonia Las aventuras de Meromi, una niña Yanomami » — Barbara Crane Navarro

13 Reasons Why You Should Boycott Gold For The Yanomami People — Palm Oil Detectives — Tiny Life — Barbara Crane Navarro

Hunger for Gold in the Global North is fueling a living hell in the Global South. Here are 20 reasons why you should #BoycottGold4Yanomami 13 Reasons Why You Should Boycott Gold For The Yanomami People — Palm Oil Detectives 13 Reasons Why You Should Boycott Gold For The Yanomami People — Palm Oil Detectives — Tiny Life

13 Reasons Why You Should Boycott Gold For The Yanomami People — Palm Oil Detectives — Tiny Life — Barbara Crane Navarro