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Shipment — Daily Observation

Humanity cares deeply For its water transportation Be it for business, military, or vacation Shipment is part of human nature & history @douryeh https://fivedotoh.com/2022/07/20/fowc-with-fandango-shipment/ Thanks for another challenge, Fandango 💙

Shipment — Daily Observation

Diary

Kaushal Kishore

Once I was buying some stuff at a shop and the shopkeeper was using torn pages from a notebook to wrap the items he was selling. Along with that notebook, he had some other notebooks as well, but I was attracted to a notebook, which was written in very good handwriting, although its pages were in tattered condition.

I asked the shopkeeper from where he got it. He replied, “From a scrap seller.” On my request, he readily agreed to give it to me for free.

This notebook was nothing but a personal diary, a treasure trove of someone’s memories. It was anonymous and had no name or address on it, but every word was relatable to me.

I wondered how much time, effort, and above all emotions would have been put in by the owner of this diary, which has now become junk for the very world he loved…

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Covid killed so many of us – now the UK government fears our tears and rage | Michael Rosen | The Guardian

I came out of my dose of Covid and my time in intensive care not being able to stand up or walk, with one eye hardly seeing and one ear hardly hearing. Micro-bleeds in my brain have permanently knocked out the respective optic and auditory nerves. I readily admit that I look at the comments by Johnson and those scientists and feel aggrieved. And I’m not even the loved one of someone who died in that time. I’m not a health worker who lost a colleague at the very moment the PPE was insufficient or poor. On one occasion the PPE that came into my ward was secondhand and one piece had blood on it (as testified by the consultant).

I have been in meetings with people in this situation and many feel desolate, betrayed and abandoned. All the more so, when they hear people telling us that it was a “scamdemic” or that we had underlying health problems or that we were so old we were going to cop it soon anyway. One famous journalist reassured me that she knew I had been ill, “but,” she added, “you are 74”. That “but” is doing a lot of work. What’s “but” about being 74? Are my days less valid than her days, I asked myself. What kind of social contract do we have with each other in which I can be dispensable because I’m 74?

Meanwhile, this great invention, the NHS, saved my life, taught me how to walk, helped me help myself get fit, through the gloriously cooperative labours, skills, knowledge and experience of hundreds of people, many from (or with origins in) many different parts of the world. When I meet any of the nurses, doctors, physios or occupational therapists who looked after me, I am moved to tears.

To my mind, they represent the best of us; togetherness in the face of danger and loss. And, take it from me, they have suffered and are still suffering. Some have been unable to go back to the wards. When I signed permission for me to be put into induced sleep, I was told I had a 50:50 chance of waking up. It turned out to be a slightly better ratio: 58% of us survived; 42% died. That’s a lot of death for young health workers to cope with.

Actually, 200,000 is a lot of death for all of us to cope with. I wait – and keep waiting – for that national moment, that service in St Paul’s, that official gathering where we can all reflect at the same time on what has happened to us. Because the deaths have happened to us as individuals – and not in a public shared way, in some horrific act of war or genocide – it has become easier to tidy it away. The burden of the national and social trauma is being carried by us in our families and personal relationships. It’s almost as if this government that went into the pandemic mocking the public health response is afraid of our tears and our rage.

Source: Covid killed so many of us – now the UK government fears our tears and rage | Michael Rosen | The Guardian

Good People Doing Good Things — Rescuers

Filosofa's Word

Today’s good people are everyday people who just happened to be in the right place at the right time … and jumped in to help someone with a disability, likely saving that person’s life.


Jake Manna was installing solar panels in Buttermilk Bay in Plymouth, Massachusetts, when he heard that a 5-year-old girl with autism was missing in the neighborhood. Though he was unfamiliar with the area, Manna immediately climbed down from the roof where he was working and joined in the search. Heading down a rural path to a nearby stream, he discovered a diaper and a T-shirt.

Thinking the girl was close by, Manna walked along the stream to a marsh, where he found the young girl wading in water up to her waist.  Though Manna tried to convince her to get out of the water, the girl continued to wade, according to police. Fortunately, Manna was able…

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Do Better Writing Process, and Rm’d Non Sequiturs

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

  This was a section that an early Rough Draft reader noted did not go with the rest of that paragraph, or part of the chapter, rather, so I reluctantly removed it.  It was part of the Preface, I believe, or maybe the Introduction.

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Tom jobim

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Eis aqui este sambinha feito numa nota só

Outras notas vão entrar, mas a base é uma só

Esta outra é sequência do que acabo de dizer

Como eu sou a consequência inevitável de você

Quanta gente existe por aí que fala tanto e não diz nada

Ou quase nada

Já me utilizei de toda escala e no final nao sobrou nada

Não deu nada

E voltei pra minha nota como eu volto pra você

Vou cantar em uma nota como eu gosto de você

E quem quer todasas notas: Ré, mi, fá, Sol, lá, si, dó

Fique sempre sem nenhuma, fica numa nota só

Tom jobim. Samba de uma Nota só

Tom jobim. Newton Mendonça/ Tom Jobim

https://www.letras.mus.br

Marii Freire Pereira

https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

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