Archive For January 14, 2022
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. – Paul Dudley White My run is a walk. Striding as smooth as I can. Slow but going fast. * Pace is a problem. So important not to fall. All pain is…
You claim to be the devil? You are nothing but my imposter; far less than a shadow. – Mecha Constantine Focus groups interest me. So, when I saw in The New York Times, January 6, 2022, a promise of insight by Patrick Healy and Lora Kelley, I was on it. The promise was nine American voters, all Democrats….
A quilt of many colors. White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no hue). It is the color of snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully reflect and scatter all the visible wavelengths of light. White on television and computer screens is created by a mixture of red, blue, and green light. Greetings from behind the Red Curtain. When cable news…
To do what nobody else will do, in a way that nobody else can, in spite of all we go through, is to be a nurse. – Rawsi Williams, JD, BSN, RN, PhD I work as an ICU nurse. For the past two years I have “lived” in an N95 mask at work, except for…
We must remember that refugees are almost always people whose homes, family members, and everything they once loved and held dear are either destroyed or seriously at stake…They are simply trapped in a zone in which staying under such circumstances and swallowing humiliation in the “host” countries is unbearable; going home is impossible, because often…
But always – do not forget this… – always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on…
I’m Invited to a Destination Wedding at a Plantation. What Do I Do? I can almost understand why the Citrus County Board of Commissioners refuses to fund a subscription to The New York Times. Impressionable children and uninformed voters might read it and not be able to defend their minds against the socialist propaganda gushing…
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning. – Ms. Unknown If one is to think about this past year, randomly the best I can offer. Decided to let the frog living in my hot tub to…