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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

COVID-19 in Jamaica: boosting, testing, vaccinating, and the Fourth Wave

Petchary's Blog

We got our booster shots this week. Our regular vaccination centre was bursting at the seams, so we drove down the road apiece to St. Joseph’s Hospital. As far as getting a needle stuck in your arm can be a pleasant experience – it really was! We sat under a big, airy tent on the hospital’s spacious grounds, and one doctor explained possible side effects to each one of us in a sensible and matter of fact way, answering questions from everyone. Another doctor wheeled a trolley with the vaccines in a small igloo.

St. Joseph’s Hospital, with Wareika Hill/Long Mountain behind. (My photo)

So that was done. I admit that I felt pretty lousy the following day (my husband had a mere headache). I felt very much like the Jamaican version of a tweet that made me laugh. After his booster, this American tweeter said he “felt like a…

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