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New Mexico state senator denied Communion over voting record | KOB 4 (Me: Bishop has violated Senator’s rights as a Catholic and American Citizen)

Source: New Mexico state senator denied Communion over voting record | KOB 4

The Argument about Booster Shots

CRAIN'S COMMENTS

The purpose of a vaccine is to keep a person out of the hospital. Defined that way, current Covid-19 vaccines are quite effective. The people being hospitalized now are those who chose to avoid vaccination rather than those who were fully vaccinated. That remains true for the Delta variant. The Lambda variant is in South America and hasn’t migrated, as yet. (Yes, it exists and large population of unvaccinated people will be breeding groups for new varieties.)

So what about booster shots?

The case for boosters is simple.

  1. We don’t know how long the vaccines work. Better safe than sorry.
  2. If you had no major reaction to the original shot, you’re highly unlikely to react to a repetition of that shot.
  3. People have gotten booster shots with no issues.
  4. In fact, the annual flu vaccination is basically a booster shot against the flu. Boosters are in fact what we are…

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Wondering Wednesdays, Baby Acres, Chapter 2: Infrastructure, with words!

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

This post starts the rough draft of  Chapter 2 of my non-fiction WiP, Baby Acres.  

This chapter will have about 2500 words, (hopefully educational words!!)  500 of which have already been written as the Introduction, but will quite likely have to be thrown out and refitted with the new evolution of the book.  We shall see.

And  again, by way of disclaimer, the overall goal is now to explain why we need both equ. + justice, & why in 4 phases.  This chapter will transition to a chapter (2-5) for each phase, showing what Phases I-IV could look like as part of a possible roadmap for a fully inclusive society for all of us.  This vision is laid out in the hope that All HumanKind  will eventually have each person’s basic needs  met, without taking anything from anyone, and without violence, intimidation, nor coercion of any kind. 

Chapter Two:

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A Common Thirst by Gary Boelhower — Children’s Books Heal

Barbara Crane Navarro

Gary Boelhower, Author Sarah Brokke, Illustrator Beaver Pond Press, Fiction, Oct. 27, 2020 Suitable for ages: 4-9 Themes: Goats, Sheep, Abundance, Drought, Sharing, Compassion Opening: “Not far from here, the land was divided into towering mountains and level plains.” Publisher’s Synopsis: A Common Thirst is a story about the goats, who rule the mountains, and[…]

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Good People Doing Good Things — Giving

Filosofa's Word

If it’s Wednesday … wait … it is Wednesday, right?  Then it must be time for us to switch gears and focus on good people instead of the other kind I usually report on!  And, as luck would have it, I found some without having to turn over too many rocks!  Some times it isn’t about giving money or ‘things’, but about giving the most precious thing you have … yourself, your time.


One cool restauranteur

Josh Elchert is the owner/operator of Heavenly Pizza in Findlay, Ohio.  On July 5th, the crew at Heavenly Pizza filled 220 orders, nearly double its usual for a Monday, but at the end of the day, the restaurant had zero take.  Why?  Because Josh Elchert declared it to be Employee Appreciation Day and he divvied the entire take, every last penny, to his staff!  All $6,300, plus $1,200 in tips, went directly…

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Jamaica Update, July 19, 2021: An abandoned bicycle, a lifeboat, and a bulk resignation letter

Petchary's Blog

It has been two weeks since I wrote my last update. However, I will try to ensure there is no “stale” news here. I have been what millennials would call “super busy” – with a bumper crop of mangoes, and the Caribbean Tree Planting Week (read more here!) We are also living in some kind of organized chaos, getting a new roof and all kinds of other rearrangements that have turned our modest home upside down (it doesn’t take much). Now that Elsa has departed, the weather has been warm, humid and breezy all at the same time in Kingston. In other parts of the island, there has been heavy rains, but none for us city dwellers.

Haiti’s first lady Martine Moise, wearing a bullet proof vest and her arm in a sling, arrives at the Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince. | Haiti’s Secretary of State for…

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yaskhan


history scatters its seedInto coming generations 
A bickering people
In bloodied lands
Splitting forth
injustice of aggresors
Annihilation of humaneness
The folly of greed
Leering at innocence
An adulterated energy
Unbound by shame

who will take to task?
who will you take to task?

Under a violent sky
People drown in
Bankcruptcy
The devil is the auditor
He oozes green
The world hears 
his anthem

Peace is a lost cause?

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The Boy Who Grew A Forest by Sophia Gholz — Children’s Books Heal

Barbara Crane Navarro

The Boy Who Grew A Forest: The True Story of Jadav Payeng Sophia Gholz, Author Kayla Harren, Illustrator Sleeping Bear Press, Biography, March 2019 Suitable for ages: 5- 8 Themes: Jadav Payeng, Forests, India, Environmentalism, Foresters, Conservation Opening: “In India, on a large river island, among farms and families hard at work, there lived a[…]

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Ecuador, Quito, die höchstgelegene Hauptstadt der Welt

Vivaldi translation: Ecuador, Quito, the highest capital in the world – 2018

Senioren um die Welt

Auf der Rundreise durch Lateinamerika hielt ich mich in Mittelamerika nur kurz auf und hatte erst wieder in Ecuador einen längeren Aufenthalt. Zunächst flog ich nach Guayaquil, der tropischen Hafenstadt des Landes. In Mexiko hatte ich mich sicher gefühlt und konnte überall allein hingehen, doch dieses Mal stieg ich mit gemischten Gefühlen aus dem Flugzeug aus. Man hatte mich davor gewarnt, mich besonders außerhalb des Zentrums aufzuhalten, und ich sollte überhaupt vorsichtig sein, da man leicht überfallen werden könnte und mir niemand helfen würde. Die Leute waren Überfälle gewohnt und würden daher einfach wegsehen. Die Sorge war jedoch unbegründet, ich war vorsichtig, das heißt ich ging nicht abends allein aus oder in dunkle Gassen und hatte auch sonst keine Probleme. Ich habe die Tage in Guayaquil schon allein wegen der freundlichen und meist fröhlichen Menschen genossen.

Schon auf dem Hinflug Anfang Juni 1963 von Buenos Aires nach Mexiko machte das…

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