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words of the heart

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When you see me, your eyes light up, you smile
Your smile sweeps me off my feet, I love your style.

Your eyes touch me with a look that makes me blush
You tease me as my cheeks turn red, flush.

I clothe my soul with your warm gaze
This cold night, I glow with your blaze.

The heat of your touch is like a fire that burns
Leaves me with a verve that wants more, yearns.

As you clasp me in the warmth of your arms
I lose all sense of time, I give in to your charms.

A rush of blood as my heart pounds, flips
As I taste the love on your lips.

We don’t need words to say how we feel
We stamp our souls, hearts, with love’s seal

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Covid-19: France suspends 3,000 unvaccinated health workers – BBC News

About 3,000 health workers in France have been suspended because they have not been vaccinated against Covid-19.

A new rule, which came into force on Wednesday, made vaccination mandatory for the country’s 2.7 million health, care home and fire service staff.

But French Health Minister Olivier Véran said on Thursday that “most of the suspensions are only temporary”.

Many are now agreeing to get jabbed because “they see that the vaccination mandate is a reality”, he said.

The rule applies to all doctors, nurses, office staff and volunteers.

President Emmanuel Macron first gave workers notice of the rule change on 12 July, warning them that they needed to get at least one jab by 15 September or resign from their jobs.

“I am aware of what I am asking of you, and I know that you are ready for this commitment, this is part, in a way, of your sense of duty,” he said at the time.

Source: Covid-19: France suspends 3,000 unvaccinated health workers – BBC News

Antique Silo Apple Harvest

Michael Stephen Wills Photography

More from the day Pam and I walked up the hill from our Malloryville Mill House.

The setting sun works its magic on a century plus maple tree on an esker bank. The glaciers deposited this esker, under the tree, when waters from the melting flowed under the ice to carve a tunnel later filled with glacier debris.

Click any photograph to visit my Online Gallery “Finger Lakes Memories.”

The light brings out the beauty of two this pair of silos from the early 20th century abutting an abandoned barn and active cornfields.

Pam is using my first camera, a Sony Mavica. It writes to a 4.5″ disk that limits the number of exposures and I carried a number of the disks. It has a decent variable lens. We still have that camera. These photos are from my Sony dslr Apha700 with a variable lens.

At that time, our three…

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Čičen Ica, Meksiko – Chichen Itza, Mexico

Myrela

Čičen Ica je majanski grad čija svetilišna četvrt najbolje ilustruje značajne promjene u kraljevskim gradovima Maja poslije sloma klasičnog perioda. Ona u isti mah svjedoči o regionalnom procvatu stila puk i usponu novog političko-vjerskog poretka na Jukatanu i cijeloj postklasičnoj Srednjoj Americi, u razdoblju kada je Čičen Ica postala jedan od vodećih gradova u Americi. Jedna od najupadljivijih osobenosti majanskih gradova na Jukatanu iz tog perioda su izuzetno rijetki istorijski natpisi, na osnovu kojih se ne možemo upoznati s detaljima njihove političke istorije. Srećom, dokumenti iz prvog kolonijalnog perioda mogu nam u tome pomoći u izvjesnoj mjeri. Znamo da je Čičen Ica bila sjedište plemena Ica Maja, iz naseobina kao što su Sajil, Kabah i moćni Usmal, grad Ksiju Maja. Građevine u Čičen Ici, kao što su grupa Crvene kuće, Akab Dzib i Dom monahinja, slične su onima iz stila puk, karakterističnom po složenim panelima s mozaičkim predstavama, na kojima…

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Balancing delicately between the two evils… – Chen Song Ping

Lockdown is on!

Lockdown is off!

Not because it is safe now,

It’s to prevent the economy

from diving under!

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Thousands throng the beach,

and camp near waterfalls,

while hospitals continues to battle virus

and vans with caskets lined up

near burial grounds.

Many shudder at the ignorance

“Are lives so insignificant?”

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What will it take

for reality to sink in

to convince them?

Or has a sense of hopelessness

breefs insensitivity

to block out fear and pain?

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Source: Balancing delicately between the two evils… – Chen Song Ping