Source: For Osie the rescue cat, 2020 was just perfect | CBC News
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For Osie the rescue cat, 2020 was just perfect | CBC News
For Osie the rescue cat, 2020 was just perfect | CBC News
Once upon a time, all the way back in 2019, a little black and white cat was one of 347 rescued from a single, squalid two-bedroom Toronto apartment. Her rescuers wore hazmat suits due to the poor air quality inside. “There were cats everywhere,” a city official said as the story hit the news. The last cat saved, possibly a kitten, was almost left behind until a wee squeak revealed their hiding spot: a narrow gap between the fridge and the wall. But this, dear reader, is a happy story. Because in 2020, amid a global pandemic that’s seen Torontonians and millions around the world urged to stay home, that little black and white cat has a new home and a name: Osie. And Osie, still smaller than she maybe should be and more than a little timid, has become the best thing of her human Beverly Leung’s year.
Source: For Osie the rescue cat, 2020 was just perfect | CBC News
Bodies pile up, patient care falters as COVID-19 slams L.A. – Los Angeles Times
“No one would believe this is in the United States,” said Scott Byington, a critical care nurse at St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood. “Everyone is doing what they can do. It’s not that anybody is slacking. It’s just that it’s too overwhelming for everyone.” Source: Bodies pile up, patient care falters as COVID-19 slams L.A. – Los Angeles Times
Sedona teaser – will post on my blog after the vacation
Sedona is magical – something new and different for every visitor – if you let it…
Is this the End ?
So just try to play your part, enjoy this life, protect this planet and follow the path which ensures happiness of every one !

The End of the world? Surely not !
The end of 2020? Oh yes, hell it is !
The end of all woes? Hmmmm….
Maybe..
I am sure when the writer wrote our world he didn’t want to get bored. He wrote vicissitudes to get entertainment. So why not the actors (we of course but quite dedicated ones) enjoy the show as well! It’s tough but not impossible.
Without a doubt I can say that we have ventured out of our script , contrived a more complicated mess and surprised even our creator, our writer ( I don’t know about his intentions but he definitely wants a better ending).
So what’s going to happen in the near future ?
Well, we know our future to a great extent and we also know that we have to change that to undo all the mess we have already created !
Love …
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GoodBye 2020 Welcome 2021!
As the year is about to end and the arrival of a fresh start… It is quite wonderful to think how this crazy year is going to get over and we humans of 21st century are surviving in the toughest way possible! And we are starting a new year, with lots of hopes and possibilities yet wondering what will happen in 2021? It it going to be a good year or unbearable like 2020? But let us wish for the best! Cheers!✨🥂💫🥳
Besides all other despairing incidents that happened this year, we can commemorate what good happened and yeah let us be grateful of ourselves!
2020 was worth memorable!
Here’s all what I want to share, have made this year inspiring!
I have watched many movies, series and read books, also lot of songs healed me and I could discover my new favourites! So, I’ll be listing all of them…
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Coronavirus: More than 9,600 daily cases reported in Ohio
Ohio broke 700,000 total cases of coronavirus on the last day of 2020, with 9,632 daily cases reported, according to the Ohio Department of Health.
It’s the highest number of daily cases the state has recorded since reporting 9,684 cases on Dec. 18. The 11,018 cases reported on Saturday also included cases from Christmas Day.
Source: Coronavirus: More than 9,600 daily cases reported in Ohio
Ontario reports record high 3,328 new COVID-19 cases, 56 new deaths | CBC News
Ontario reported a single-day record of 3,328 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday and 56 new deaths related to the illness.
The figure marks the first time the province has reported more than 3,000 cases in a single day, and the third consecutive day Ontario has recorded a record-breaking case count.
Source: Ontario reports record high 3,328 new COVID-19 cases, 56 new deaths | CBC News
‘I’m fascinated by power, force and bravery’: the woman who surfed the biggest recorded wave of 2020 | Surfing | The Guardian
The wave in question measured 22.4 metres (73.5ft), the highest ever surfed by a woman, the first to be measured and verified by Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and a couple of feet greater than the one surfed by her nearest rival. It is also the biggest wave measured this year, surfed by man or woman.
Gabeira, who broke her own previous Guinness world record of 68ft, attributes her achievement to what she calls “taking a critical line”. In short, she takes her board to the fiercest and tallest part of the wave, “where the most powerful energy is, where it is actually breaking”. This, she says, is how “you put value into your wave”.
The peaks surfed by Gabeira are classed as size XXL by the World Surf League (there is no XXXL). Hawaii and California once drew the big-wave community, but Gabeira believes that the small Portuguese fishing village of Nazaré, where she lives and works, is home to “the most incredible big waves in the world … The speeds are incredible. You are going so fast and the wave is building behind you; it’s a lot of water moving, an incredible feeling, and you’re very, very present, which has always been my favourite part of the sport. To feel connection with a very powerful force.”

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