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Thursday, April 30, 2020

I am rapt

Huge mountains of potatoes in Idaho vs lines of cars at a food bank in Texas.

https://twitter.com/chefjoseandres/status/1255671337667919872

Meanwhile, after a long wait of nearly a year, I just moved somewhere where all the stores have to be driven to and there are lawn sprinklers and a gardener comes on Fridays.

THAT IS APPROPRIATE SOMEHOW???

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

More fancy ice cubes

♡♡♡♡♡

"Eng) 카페놀이 / 홈카페 영상모음 / Home cafe 🌹 - YouTube"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xjjOLCVkoMs

Fancy ice cubes forever ♡

"Eng) 홈카페 얼음만들기 / 카페놀이 / ice/ Home cafe - YouTube"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Uud1buDdt_w

Find what you need...

I wonder if fancy ice cubes would be good for sore muscles.

It's learning time

 Back muscles, I will let you educate me

Looking forward

To waking up not aching

To better back health...how about that deep muscle that feels like it's your back but is technically an abdominal?

To more space to put things as drawers and shelves for small spaces arrive...but what if we just had fewer things...do I really need this vegetable spiralizer?

To fewer unpacking interruptions - sometimes it's outside forces, sometimes it's the body...

To having it all put away or given away (that's a challenge...who accepts donations now?)

Perishables inside

Sunday, April 26, 2020

New sounds

Louder birds.
Neighbors outdoors but not next to the wall. That's good.
Saw a raptor over a neighbor's tree yesterday!
More wind.
The freeways are louder or softer sometimes. It depends.
Trains...

Oranges, thyme, oregano

I collected those from a neighbor's driveway and a community garden when I lived in the old place. That was a different environment.

Sleeping lately

Involves waking up exhausted and achey.
Weird dreams too, like one about being on two Zoom meetings at once, or another about lying under mosquito netting upon which birds can perch.

A whirl

Moved during a pandemic.
The day goes by fast...
Still more to sort, organize, and unpack.

Thursday, April 23, 2020

Cheerfully

This is the most relaxed I have felt in a week and never underestimate how much time it might take to pack, clean, move...

How sensible


“'These taxpayers work in critical sectors of our economy, like agriculture, and contribute greatly to our country,' said Rep. Lou Correa (D-Calif.), who’s introduced a bill to extend eligibility to the excluded immigrants."

~ R. Rainey & K. Landergan

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/22/democratic-governors-mayors-stimulus-immigrants-201823

Who has the remedy for this?


"These U.S. citizens won’t get coronavirus stimulus checks — because their spouses are immigrants"

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-04-20/u-s-citizens-coronavirus-stimulus-checks-spouses-immigrants


"She works as a film producer and her small business has ground to a halt, forcing her and her husband to eat red beans and rice most nights, scramble to find small business loans and apply for medical assistance for their two children.

So the 44-year-old woman from the Midwest, who asked that her name not be used to protect her privacy, has had to bite her tongue as friends have celebrated the arrival of economic stimulus checks.

As a U.S. citizen whose children are also U.S. citizens, she is excluded from the government’s $2-trillion coronavirus financial relief package because she files her taxes jointly with her husband, a Mexican citizen from Guadalajara."

~ J. Jarvie

It's a great time to care more

"Like many of the hundreds of thousands of hourly workers who supply the country with food and other necessities, they faced the choice of going without a paycheck or risking their health for jobs that typically pay less than $20 an hour."

~ A. Samaha and KJM Baker

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/albertsamaha/smithfield-foods-coronavirus-outbreak

Friday, April 17, 2020

More!

"More's decision to educate his daughters set an example for other noble families."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_More

(A Man For All Seasons was on PBS).

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Flow

Pack and move and pay for what is needed for your ailing quarantine animal companion. Yes, you can.

Great, gratefuller

Not only for $$ (which will go right back out to pay bills, including last minute unexpected ones) but indeed I see the good services that are being provided at this time. I see them.

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Thank you for your services and powerful vehicles

The sound of garbage collection:
the noise of humans getting one of their many needs met.

Monday, April 13, 2020

The importance of nature and house-cleaning

Gulity of not packing but re-reading the old books I read as a much younger human...a different time, a different time...

The one that started me off.

https://www.biblio.com/rilla-of-ingleside-by-montgomery-l-m/work/6792

And currently others are also re-reading...

https://m.facebook.com/groups/512319292977623/

Oh look what else I found.

https://the-toast.net/2014/10/07/woman-soon-rilla-ingleside-wwi/

She could be in a moving visual medium.

Sunday, April 12, 2020

Thinking about making...actually eating...

a) roasted vegetables and peas and salmon
(thinking about making)

b) cold vegetables dipped in cold lentil mush
(actually eating)

maybe will still make the first thing

Birds are happy. I saw one in a tree that was.

The quarter-eating washing machine in the complex won't work and it's gloomiest Easter ever but that means it's time listen to downtempo music and drink a hot sugary red date dong quai beverage (an impulse buy--one of many things to try to finish up before moving) and do something useful inside like cook or sort through papers or pack small things and later go out to have a walk in the gray drizzle fest before the sun goes down.

♡Mary♡Prankster♡&♡chickpeas!!!♡

"WTMD on Instagram: 'And now, we’re excited to present a new home video from our next Cabin Fever Concert artist, @marypranksterhq titled 'What the F—- Am I…'”
https://www.instagram.com/tv/B-ulL7cJVV6/

"Right now it will be an oasis of normalcy amid a sea of terror." ~ M.P.

~~~~~\~~~~~\~~~~~\~~~~~\~~~~~

Made this to use up my goji berries...

https://www.drbronner.com/all-one-blog/2017/03/chickpea-tagine/


Wednesday, April 08, 2020

Good trees

Rachel Summers on Twitter: "So, I did this today! Missing my trees in the woods, so deciding to enjoy the street trees that I *can* get to. 🌲 🌳 #trees #streettrees #walthamstow #stjamesbiglocal https://t.co/hmhkYo480r" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/curiouswilds/status/1247581192716771330


Elizabeth Archer on Twitter: "To whomever is chalking names and descriptions of trees on the pavements across Walthamstow. I love you. This made my heart sing today. https://t.co/6lmauYeQVD" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/edarcherthinks/status/1247569369292570625

In sync with a stranger

"When social distancing is over, I’m not putting off this trip any longer. I’m going to drag my husband and see everything that Prince Edward Island has to offer, stuff my face with local seafood, and maybe go balance on a kitchen roof."

~ C. Rovzar

https://business.financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/a-road-trip-to-prince-edward-island-is-just-what-the-doctor-ordered

"Perseverance"

Yes.

"Nothing else matters. I can work out the problems. Put it all aside, and also analyze the things I’m going through,” explained Joe sitting in the room where he works on his tapestries."

~ J. Wahl

https://www.whas11.com/mobile/article/news/local/teaching-perseverance-stitch-by-stitch/421370474

Praying for wellness

May we take better care ourselves and be kinder and may this dissipate...

I think it might be passing.

"I hope this gets better." It is starting to get better.
No more caffeine. Threw away some tea.
I can't do anything was how it was feeling.
It is starting  to improve.

I need help now for this

I have a clear need for help this morning.
Please help me show my self and my body that I love her. I love you. I feel you. I hope you can feel the love of the universe. I hope you can tap into the currents of real best healing right now on this planet. There are healing currents all over the Earth right now. Please know how much you are worthy of healing. Please let her, the one who feels panic and anxiety, know how much there is healing and repair available on so many levels on this planet. Be open to the healing that can happen, including from unexpected sources. Yeah? Thank you.

Tuesday, April 07, 2020

This is the spirit

https://mobile.twitter.com/gavinnewsom/status/1247655661120315393

I am grateful!

I have received help today! I have good people to talk to! I love these people!

"Many farmworkers are single mothers"

“Many farmworkers are single mothers,” Romero said. “They have to continue working to provide for their families, so they’re being forced to leave children at home … because they don’t have family support.”

Jim Cochran, owner of Swanton Berry Farm, an organic strawberry operation and a UFW-represented grower outside of Santa Cruz, California, said his farm is fortunate enough to provide housing for the 25 year-round employees in an isolated area, which could help decrease the chances of someone contracting the coronavirus."

"Even before President Trump signed a sick pay bill, Cochran told his employees that if they got sick and needed to stay home for a few weeks, he would cover their wages."

~ A. Flores & H. Aleaziz

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adolfoflores/farmworkers-coronavirus-fears

I feel sick with what is happening

And sometimes it is because I feel sick with disappointment at how some people are handling things. The lack of awareness and selfishness can make one ill.

Look for people who have courage to have empathy for others

The last news I get is about a friend who could not see her father on his birthday this year. So many people are going through so many hard things right now.

Crafty quote

“Getting a little more interested? Read on, brother! Next I’m going to tell you how to make your way around the needlepoint store.”

~ Rosey Grier

https://www.maharam.com/stories/boyer_dual-threat-the-needlepoint-of-rosey-grier

A brain is in a body

Might look more into this:

" Havening, the transitive verb of the word haven, means to put into a safe place."

https://www.havening.org/

Okay it is Gratitude Time

My cat seems relatively contented!!!!

Why should good food go to waste?

"Kim Jamerson thinks 'it's just a shame' to have enough food, but not be able to get it to the people in need. 'A woman who's got two kids how can she live on unemployment, go into a grocery store and pay 90 cents for a cucumber? She just can't do that.'

Part of the problem is that it takes labor to move produce from one place to another, and people are still figuring out who will pay for that."

~ D. Charles

"Food Shortages? Nope, Too Much Food In The Wrong Places"

"Jamerson says she can't afford to pay workers to pick a crop that will be donated. She wants the government to step in, provide workers or the money to pay them, and make sure food gets to where it's needed. 'The government could send the food to the hospitals, the rest homes, to the food banks, to the churches,' she says."

~ D. Charles

"NPR on Twitter: 'As farmers dump the food they usually sell to restaurants, food banks are struggling to feed the spike in people who can't afford groceries."

https://mobile.twitter.com/npr/status/1246302481350561792

Why is a 60-year-old getting $12/hour to risk her life?

“'They preach to us for years, ‘One mask, one room,’ and now you’re telling me, ‘One mask for eight hours?’ That doesn’t work for me,” said one longtime employee who still works there and did not want to be named for fear of retribution.

The employee is over 60 years old and added: 'I think about quitting every day.'

A TouchPoint spokesperson said in a written statement Wednesday: 'We adhere to the highest standards and protocols in infection prevention to keep our team members safe.'"

~ R. Rutledge

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2020/04/01/coronavirus-milwaukee-ascension-st-francis-hospital-cleaners-quit-over-lack-protective-equipment-ppe/5103264002/


You can appreciate the details

"The housekeepers typically make between $11 and $12 per hour and do not receive hazard pay, he said.

Housekeepers said that as of last week, they are no longer required to clean the rooms with COVID-19 patients in them, though they still clean the rooms upon discharge and emergency room areas where positive-testing patients are treated.

And, they said, there seems to be a hierarchy on who gets protective equipment, with preference going to the clinical staff, rather than cleaning crews and other support services."

~ R. Rutledge

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2020/04/01/coronavirus-milwaukee-ascension-st-francis-hospital-cleaners-quit-over-lack-protective-equipment-ppe/5103264002/



"CDC guidelines suggest nurses and others already in protective gear clean rooms with COVID-19 patients and that housekeepers can clean after the patients are discharged.

But the cleaning crews should not rush into the rooms, the guidelines suggest.

'We do not yet know how long (COVID-19) remains infectious in the air,' the CDC’s guidelines state.

Regardless, the environment services workers "should refrain from entering the vacated room until sufficient time has elapsed for enough air changes to remove potentially infectious particles.”

They should be equipped with gloves and gowns, at minimum, and masks and eye protection, in addition, “if splashes or sprays during cleaning and disinfection activities are anticipated.”

Hospitals across Wisconsin are advertising for job openings for environmental service managers and workers."

~ R. Rutledge

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2020/04/01/coronavirus-milwaukee-ascension-st-francis-hospital-cleaners-quit-over-lack-protective-equipment-ppe/5103264002/

More attention is being paid now

"In Wisconsin, Will Hsu, owner of Wausau-based Hsu Ginseng Farms, said it will be training guest workers arriving soon. He said he is thinking about placing three workers instead of four in each of their two-bedroom apartments.

'It’s very important for us to keep them healthy,' he said.

But in the fields, he said, some tasks on the farm require groups of three, four or five to work closely together."

~ M. Perez

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2020/04/05/farmworkers-risk-coronavirus-also-dont-have-access-doctors/2943439001/

It is good to be articulate about caring

I want to know that society will get better about caring for and the health and safety of so many who were ignored or overlooked when "times were better."

Saturday, April 04, 2020

HUMANS MUST EAT

What if a beloved ancestor to whom you owe so much has reincarnated as someone who is currently picking strawberries right now and you're just...not connected anymore?

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mikesallah/floridas-farm-workers-face-coronavirus-threat

Uh, what a monstrous thing to imagine at a time like this.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/03/covid-19s-devastating-effects-jobs-and-businesses/608461/

Nice photo, though...

Cannot wait to make this cake.

"Make 3 depressions in the dry ingredients – two small and one large. Pour the vinegar and vanilla in each of the two smaller depressions, and the vegetable oil in the large one." 

https://totallythebomb.com/vanilla-crazy-cake 

THAT'S THE PART

I, a writing prompt

don't know why all the crayons in the 21st century who got all the food and nice houses couldn't even bother to make sure the crayons getting their food weren't at least nominally taken care of  when that pandemic hit...

Perhaps they weren't the brightest crayons...

It's only been a short time...

A kid can return to kindergarten.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Robert_E_Kelly/status/1245520226734592001

The days keep passing by.

"Amee Vanderpool on Twitter: 'Here is Captain Crozier walking away from his ship while sailors chant his name after he was relieved from duty for blowing the whistle on a coronavirus contamination aboard the USS Roosevelt. He sacrificed himself and it sounds like everyone knows it."
https://twitter.com/girlsreallyrule/status/1246067852370751488

O protocol
https://qz.com/1831969/coronavirus-fired-navy-captain-brett-crozier-broke-no-laws-just-protocol/

Who wants to pick fruit in the heat

xx's: But we don't wanna pick cherries in 102 degrees.

XX: I hope you never have to work for a living when you grow up.

For real?


"British Summer Fruits is warning that produce will rot in the fields and orchards unless they can find replacements."

~ S. Poulter

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8134285/Farmers-call-army-Land-Girls-boys-help-pick-fruit-veg.html

Simple pandemic burrito (dairy-free)

1 tortilla
Beans
Parchment paper
Baking sheet
Oven

Wrap beans in tortilla, place on parchment paper on baking sheet, bake at 350 til crispy. Eat warm or wrap in parchment paper and refrigerate for later.

Maybe salt or add spices to the beans.
Topping: whatever seems good & available.


Someday there may be a show

About what is happening now with our food system in the U.S.???

~~~~~

All Community Reviews of Land Girls (DVD) | King County Library System | BiblioCommons
https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/860630082

I guess some will remember this

“'Throughout this public health crisis, there has not been a day when farmworkers have stopped showing up to work. Their work ethic and commitment keep food in our grocery stores and fill America’s tables. As you know, farmworkers have been deemed essential during this public health crisis, and, as such, they have been asked to continue working. Although they help feed the nation, the mean and median income of a farmworker family are $20,000 and $24,999, respectively. Despite their low-wages, many won’t be able to receive the direct cash assistance headed to millions of U.S. households. Many of these essential workers lack critical benefits,' the Members wrote."

~ A. Cruz

https://hiplatina.com/coronavirus-crisis-farmworkers/

People help people eat

"Every day when Carmelita finishes her shift in the strawberry fields of California’s central coast, she sprays herself down with Lysol, takes off the handkerchief she uses to protect her face, and tucks it in a plastic bag before getting in her car. She’s the sole provider for her two young sons and can’t afford to miss a day on the job."

~ Y. Cabrera

https://grist.org/justice/farmworkers-are-risking-their-lives-to-feed-a-nation-on-lockdown/

"The UFW Foundation is calling for Congress to provide farmworkers with hazard pay, financial support for childcare, and sick leave, among other benefits. Farmworkers on average earn about $10.60 per hour and have a median annual income between $17,500 and $19,999. Just 47 percent of farmworkers reported having health insurance, according to the latest National Agricultural Workers Survey."

~ Y. Cabrera

https://grist.org/justice/farmworkers-are-risking-their-lives-to-feed-a-nation-on-lockdown/

Thursday, April 02, 2020

And now I appreciate running water because it came back

And also, just a good Reader's Digest story.

https://www.rd.com/true-stories/inspiring/coming-out-to-grandmother/

I was sick and terrified this morning, I am feeling a lot better now, and time is really different these days. All the other maladies...

Spirit of a healer who has lots of support on all levels

Please be with us and show us how to do so much better. Thank you.

Wednesday, April 01, 2020

It's good for the immune system too

Don't hide all the heaping quantities of self-care this drill sergeant of a universe is (something ing) right now.

DO THAT

You should have a vacation day
Like a day where you find time to love seeing sunlight on flowers
Eating tacos from Jack in the Box
And just enjoying life

Find what brings them what they need

Dear administrators, won't you please remember to communicate the value of your organization's staff and treat them well. Employees talking about how a radio commentator criticized your treatment of them as they prepare for a surge shows you really need to treat them better. Find those soft skills. This is your time.