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You know that saying about a frog in a pot?

How you can put a frog in boiling water and it’ll jump straight out, but if you put a frog in tepid water and slowly increase the heat, it’ll adjust and adjust until it dies?   -Nathaniel, from the novel “I Have Lost My Way” by Gayle Forman

Survival. How do we look at it? Is survival a place of comfort, ease, and familiarity? Is survival just getting by? I am reading the novel from where the above thought comes from, as the character Nathaniel, surmises how he is dead and has been for a long time now because he stayed in the water (a place of complacency) too long until he succumbed to the normalcy of it.

  1. Do we become complacent in a situation where we’ve existed too long? Have we normalized the place where…

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Comforting Thought: True friends will like you, just as you are

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Don’t change for others.

True friends will like you just the way you are, despite your faults.

Be a good friend to them in return.

Forgive shortcomings.

No one is perfect.

Googie McCabe

Don’t change for others. True friends will like you just the way you are, despite your faults. Be a good friend to them in return. Forgive shortcomings. No one is perfect. @googiemccabe #bookquote #DwieSiostry

Comforting Thought: True friends will like you, just as you are - Googie McCabe
Comforting Thought: True friends will like you, just as you are – Googie McCabe

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Billie Eilish: I would have died from Covid-19 if I hadn’t been vaccinated | Billie Eilish | The Guardian

Billie Eilish has revealed that she had Covid-19 in August, and said that she felt sure she “would have died” had she not been vaccinated.

Appearing on Howard Stern’s US radio show on Monday, Eilish said: “The vaccine is fucking amazing and it also saved [her brother/musical collaborator] Finneas from getting it; it saved my parents from getting it; it saved my friends from getting it.”

Eilish said she was unwell with the virus for two months and that she was still experiencing undisclosed side effects.

Source: Billie Eilish: I would have died from Covid-19 if I hadn’t been vaccinated | Billie Eilish | The Guardian

Meadows falsely claims that Trump ‘acted quickly’ to quell Jan. 6 riot | TheHill

Emails and text messages that Meadows submitted to the select committee, however, tell a different story.

Meadows, as Trump’s right-hand man, had a front-row seat to the president’s response as the violence at the Capitol unfolded. And the trove of documents that Meadows turned over to investigators reveals that he was fielding desperate messages from Trump’s eldest son, GOP lawmakers and the leading pundits at Fox News — including Hannity — urging Meadows to convince Trump to tell his supporters to end the siege and go home.

News reports have also revealed that Meadows was working behind the scenes with Ivanka Trump, the former president’s elder daughter, in an effort to press her father to make a public statement urging an end to the insurrection.

The elder Trump, alone in his private dining room watching the riot on television, resisted those pleas for hours. After the Capitol building was breached at 2:11 p.m., Trump’s first public statement was a tweet attacking former Vice President Mike Pence, himself a target of the rioters, for lacking “the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country.” That was at 2:24 p.m.

In a second tweet, at 3:13 p.m., Trump encouraged his supporters to “remain peaceful” and “respect” the police officers in the Capitol — a message that even his closest allies said was inadequate, since it suggested the rioters were welcome visitors in the Capitol.

Source: Meadows falsely claims that Trump ‘acted quickly’ to quell Jan. 6 riot | TheHill

USP researchers isolate the coronavirus omicron variant – Mágica Mistura 能

Now, the pandemic scenario is different, but the samples remain important: the idea is that, from them, researchers can standardize new tests to identify the omicron across the country. In addition, Brazilian scientists will be able to assess the effectiveness of vaccines against the variant – that is, understand whether the virus can escape the antibodies of those who received the vaccines or not.

Strain of the new variant is being grown in the laboratory for the first time in Brazil – which will allow monitoring its spread and evaluating the effectiveness of vaccines.

Source: USP researchers isolate the coronavirus omicron variant – Mágica Mistura 能

Shamanic adventures – « Amazon Rainforest Magic The adventures of Meromi, a Yanomami girl » 

Barbara Crane Navarro

illustration from «Amazon Rainforest Magic – The adventures of Meromi, a Yanomami girl»

«This second volume of theAmazon Rainforest Magicseries is a page-turner and as charming and delightful as the author’s first. The story line continues the thread from the previous book and the characters seem like old friends.

Meromi, a Yanomami girl now 9 years old, is a born healer and she wants to become a shaman – and is even more resolved since the adults in her community say that girls cannot …

With the help of improvised allies, she seeks a way to discourage intruders and make them leave the forest. It’s time for Meromi to use her gift for speaking with the animals …

Aspects of traditional Yanomami life in the Rainforest are woven into the fanciful story. The author’s enchanting illustrations transform readers into fellow travelers on Meromi’s magical quest.

A book for young people…

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