Random Thoughts From A Bouncy Mind

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Just a few thoughts from the bouncing mind inside my head …

I had to laugh when I read in a news aggregator that with both Senate and House back in chambers, we should prepare for what “… could be a frantic couple weeks of legislative action.”  Legislative action???  In today’s inert Senate???  Who do they think they’re kidding?  The most action we are likely to see from the United States Senate in the coming weeks are them posturing on various news shows and faux news shows to trash talk the other side.  If any meaningful legislation comes out of the Senate anytime soon, I will be in shock.

The Senate has been discussing the infrastructure bill for months now.  It is allegedly now a bi-partisan bill that the Republicans insisted be pared down from its original status, but even then, it doesn’t have enough Republican support to overcome…

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Rutas de un viajero. Capítulo XV. El Sagrario, rincón pintoresco e irrepetible de Pátzcuaro

How wondrous. Imagine what all this looked like when just finished – magnificent!

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

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Parece un dibujo de ensueño, un trazo distante, una pintura plasmada en el lienzo añejo que reposa en el sótano de las añoranzas y los recuerdos, en algún rincón del mundo, en un espacio cautivante y mágico, donde cada detalle se transforma en arte, partitura, boceto, poesía, porque para los otros, los de entonces, los moradores del Pátzcuaro de las horas coloniales, su pueblo representó la casa, el refugio, la morada, la página en la que diseñaron y protagonizaron los capítulos y las horas de sus existencias.

Desde la hoja que se desprende del follaje y mece el viento suavemente, hasta el cielo que hospeda nubes rizadas que cambian sus formas, transitan fugazmente y reflejan su coquetería en el lago legendario, donde las islas, el tule y las garzas coexisten, el escenario se presenta magistral y extraordinario para enmarcar…

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The Argument about Booster Shots

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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!

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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[…]

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

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Good People Doing Good Things — Giving

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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

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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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