FOTD – March 15 – Lilies and Rose – 100CountryTrek.com

I saw this Pink Rose in my garden and on my table

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♫ We Can Work It Out ♫ (Redux) | Filosofa’s Word
I seem to have posted most of the Beatles’ repertoire at some point! I went in search for a new Beatles’ tune tonight, since I haven’t played them in a while, but decided to settle on this one … in part because it is storming, the lights are flickering, and I want to get a song on the schedule before the electricity goes out altogether! Still, I do love this one and hope you will too … it’s been almost two years since I last played it!
From my old standby Songfacts …
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Stevie Wonder covered this on his 1970 album Signed, Sealed and Delivered. His version, which hit US #13, plays during the end credits of the 2005 movie Kicking And Screaming.In 2014, Wonder performed the song on the CBS special The Beatles: The Night That Changed America, which aired exactly 50 years after the group first performed on the Ed Sullivan Show. Wonder introduced the song by saying that he first heard it when he was 15 years old. “It had a nice thing to it, but I said, Someday I’m going to do it again, with a little more funky thing with it,” Wonder said when he introduced the song.
WHOA … be still my heart … I must go in search of!
Moonwashed Weekly Prompt – 100CountryTrek.com

cherish early-morning
genial sun forever bright
remotely impartial
Hannah Arendt – Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!
” Toda dor pode ser suportada se sobre ela puder ser contada uma história.
Hannah Arendt
Marii Freire.
https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!
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Santarém, Pá 15 de março de 2024

Mulheres Contra Mulheres – Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!
Eu particularmente, acabo compreendendo muitas situações em relação à mulher em nossa sociedade, principalmente, levando em consideração todo um contexto histórico, a ausência da presença feminina que perdurou durante muito tempo, a opinião que não nos era permitida acrescentar em decisões políticas e uma série de fatos atrelado a nós. Mas hoje, a mulher da contemporaneidade não pode ter fala negativa em relação à outra. Se há, é por falta de informação ou por escolha pessoal. Ora, imagine, descredibilizar a fala de uma mulher (mas não é qualquer mulher) baseado no ” achismo”, como ocorre em relação à Maria da Penha. Há mulheres que afirmam que a história dela é mentirosa, e que esta é inclusive, foi arquitetada com a ajuda da Justiça Brasileira ( farsa), para prejudicar um único homem, o seu ex- companheiro (Heredia). Afinal, a situação da vítima que ficou presa para sempre à uma cadeira de rodas, é o quê, é uma farsa também? Que tipo de ser humano age com tanta frieza e inclusive, acaba tendo o aval de grupos de direitos humanos para denunciar o seu país por não ser solidário ” as estórias ” contada por ela? Que pensamento retrógrado e “machista” é esse? Sim ( muitas mulheres são machistas na sua forma de pensar), contra àquela que luta justamente, contra a violência? Quantas mulheres morrem por ano no Brasil? Será que temos que viver como muitas ” rezando” por medo da forma de agir do outro? Quantas mulheres são queimadas vivas com ácidos, água quente, mulheres com mãos decepadas, mortas porque a violência é uma máxima em suas vidas? Quem consegue conter essa realidade, assim como a impunidade em relação a tantos crimes? Pode a nossa Justiça agir com base no achismo? veja, achismo de muitos! Aqui, incluo a maioria, e não só a mulher, porque fala sem ter noção real do problema. Num país que mais mata mulheres no mundo, onde temos também números significativos de processos por conta de violência doméstica, é preciso desenvolver a criatividade para descredibilizar a fala de outra? Creio que não. As pessoas precisam parar de repetir discursos prontos, e procuram analisar a situação de perto. Diariamente, mulheres são violentadas, mortas de forma cruel. E isso precisa ser visto e compreendido pela sociedade que não pode ser aceito.
Marii Freire. Mulheres Contra Mulheres. Via Facebook
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Santarém, Pá 15 de março de 2024
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#mulherescontramulheres
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#mariadapenha
#lei
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Opinion | Balancing personal freedom and public good is different for measles than covid – The Washington Post
Yo, Customer Service, Where You Be At? 🤷🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ | From Behind the Pen
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A few days ago I stopped by my nearby Dollar Tree (yeah, I’m addicted to that store like a hard drug) and ran inside to get a couple of items. Yep, this time it was indeed a couple of items (2 boxes of caramel-flavored Crunch-n-Munch…don’t judge me)!
If I am in a mad rush and if I absolutely have to, I will go to the self-checkout counter. While quick and convenient, and you can call me crazy, I prefer going to a human cashier since they seem to be replaced by an influx of self-serve machines. Oops, sorry, I digress. Getting back to my Dollar Tree experience.
So, I noticed as I approached the area to wait for the next available checkout cashier (there was only one mind you), only one customer was being waited on by a “human” cashier. So I thought I was going to be there for a moment or two and then get served. There were people behind me and they wanted to use the self-checkout so I told them to go ahead since I was waiting on the cashier. Well, 6 people later, I peered at the customer being waited on by the cashier and noticed she had not one but two completely filled baskets with a ton of stuff in them. So at that moment, I thought, “No way!” Was she buying up most of the inventory in the children’s department? UGH! All I wanted was a taste of the sweet popcorn in one box of the Crunch-n-Munch I was holding. I needed a quick, sweet fix bad.
So FINALLY, 4 more customers later, an associate came up, saw the two boxes I was holding but went to the office. Not a single acknowledgment to me or the other people behind me in line. This irritated me (and I say that nicely). So when she sauntered from the office, I asked politely, “Could you ring these up for me” in the most sincere voice that I could muster. She seemed to be annoyed but did. I tried hard to ignore her attitude without going ballistic!
I will post at another time about the customer who had the two shopping carts filled to the brim, but for now, I put a ton of punctuation marks behind GOOD CUSTOMER SERVICE! It doesn’t matter how many self-service checkouts you have. What happened to making sure patrons who walk out of your store are satisfied with spending their money with you? Regardless of the jobs I ever had, part of my job description was to make sure when customers went through the spending funnel, they came out a satisfied customer. FYI, thank goodness such experiences aren’t as widespread as I feared.
So no, I didn’t go all Broom Hilda in the store and cause a scene by casting a spell on this associate who looked meaner than a junkyard dog. Perhaps she was having a bad day or maybe she was going through an issue that none of us knew about. Thank goodness I am much older and wise enough to squash my irritation to a place of empathy. I don’t think good customer service is buried in the past. But seriously though, oh where, oh where has good customer service gone? Oh where, oh where can it beeeeeeee???
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Source: Yo, Customer Service, Where You Be At? 🤷🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ | From Behind the Pen
Doom and gloom climate messaging only works in a specific context – Darcy Hitchcock

Basically on social media, which thrives on outrage, doomerism increases information sharing, but not necessarily meaningful action.
Our paper was recently published at the journal Science Advances, where our findings revealed that doom and gloom messaging was highly effective for stimulating climate change information sharing, like posting on the Internet or social media, where negativity reigns. In light of these findings, Wallace-Wells was right in using this messaging style in his writings.
When it doesn’t
But leaving people feeling overwhelmed leads to despair and inaction. People need to feel a sense of agency, something they can do. If not they just tune it out and go back to their lives.
Source: Doom and gloom climate messaging only works in a specific context – Darcy Hitchcock




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