Oh that's OK. Once the water and sewer and power and food infrastructure fall apart as all the "old folks" who know how to operate them move on, well....Originally Posted by ApatheticNoMore
I think everyone will get to share in the fun.
Oh that's OK. Once the water and sewer and power and food infrastructure fall apart as all the "old folks" who know how to operate them move on, well....
I think everyone will get to share in the fun.
I am enjoying my life in Covid times, tho. It is downshifting, but not shifting to bad.
, I’d like a couple more European trips but if that doesn’t happen for a couple of years, that’s OK.
We will get through this and hopefully be wiser as a civilization. Living simply and supporting each other is about all that each one can do. I refuse to be melodramatic, confrontational, angry as it is a waste of my energy and helps no one. I believe that we all have better things to do than that although some do seem to feel differently.
As Cicero said, “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”
As in the summer I can make the same observation - that despite all its restrictions California is in the worst shape of any state.
You would think officials would have learned their approach is wrong, but no. They should be trying new things like shutting down passenger air travel but they can't admit they're wrong. I saw on the news over 80 million Americans are planning to travel for Christmas. A bunch will probably go to or from California. They shut down a sports stadium with no fans but won't touch airports.
My students’ grandparents are dying.
do the whole world a favor. Before you leave the house, ask yourself, do I have a choice? (You almost always have a choice) if the answer is yes, ask yourself if you’re willing to risk the life of a random stranger for what you are about to do.
if you can’t look into the eyes of a seven year old showing you the “one last present” from the grandmother he has spent every Christmas with - stay home.
and btw - I’m teaching online. My school is online. Except for fencing - which is being held in the parking lot in snow.
CL, that’s heartbreaking. We have been going nowhere for the past two months and intend to keep it that way. I really don’t understand all the traveling and gatherings now that the entire country is doing horribly. Plus with the vaccines here there’s hope on the horizon.
Merry Christmas kids! Now take the covids back to your grandparents next week for Christmas dinner! It’ll be the best and last Christmas present you will ever give them. Ho ho ho!
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...-kids-n1251236
I agree and hope that when I look back on this time, I'm able to honestly see that I was helpful, kind, compassionate, caring, etc. instead of selfish, angry, uncaring, whiny, etc.
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer." Mahatma Gandhi
Be nice whenever possible. It's always possible. HH Dalai Lama
In a world where you can be anything - be kind. Unknown
Today I was thinking about the odd attitude of what I call “soldiering on in a pandemic. “
I’ve had four sources now insist, four of them, that we must carry on with life! Because we must carry-on! Because we must! OK now I have to give you the context for these conversations: flower shows and plant conferences.
My God, we’re not speaking about turning out equipment for the war effort. We’re talking about holding flower shows. Holding meetings about flower shows. Holding conferences about growing flowers.
95% of the population in these groups are over the age of 65, the fragile population. I just read today a death notice of one of our flower show judges, age 93, died from Covid.
This makes me crazy. One of those voices loudly proclaimed in an ( unnecessary) article in plant Society journal that Covid19 is serious folks! Well, doh. I don’t need to read about Covid in our plant society journal, I know about Covid. But that same voice is postulating that in our bus tour of gardens we will have to have double the number of buses so that we can have social distancing. Me, I think oh hell no, how about no buses? How about no conference? I won’t be attending any of it.
This is not to say that real debate about essential services and essential commerce like restaurants operating is useful. I think there are valid points for keeping those establishments open and functional.
I’m talking about nonessential things like Flower Shows.The perspective of some of my fellow flower people is way out of whack.
Totally agree IL. It’s bizarre.
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