Making old lemons clean surfaces

After cleaning with water and vinegar solution and cloth towels.

Gifts from neighbors!

I do wonder where masks the volunteers made are now

Masks made by volunteers were offered, then they (people in charge) changed their minds. "Don't need them yet." So she makes her own because she lives with a high risk individual. She goes on the elevators and presses the buttons, she stocks ICU & ER, well, she says "I can take care of myself." There's lots of soap of course. I think volunteers could make more too. Her coworkers said they like her handsewn masks. Some say they don't need them. Tough guys...up top? Or is it out of an abundance of caution? Launder all cloth masks made by volunteers first?

Bet there's a movie about the Gilded Age on Netflix

"...worse than it has been since the Gilded Age."
  https://www.caller.com/story/opinion/2020/03/30/cesar-chavez-day-coronavirus-and-workers-rights/2928607001/

0 yeah???

https://www.history.com/news/second-gilded-age-income-inequality

This paragraph makes me eat more cold spaghetti

"The class dimensions of COVID-19 are stark. It was mainly brought to the United States by people who could afford the luxury of international travel; but it will be the poor, who cannot afford that kind of travel, who will bear the brunt of this pestilence."

~ J.C. Harrington 

https://www.caller.com/story/opinion/2020/03/30/cesar-chavez-day-coronavirus-and-workers-rights/2928607001/

What if the farmworkers had a day off on Cesar Chavez Day

Aaaaaaaa

FLOWERS

"🔥 The blue flower fields located in Osaka, Japan 🔥"
https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/comments/frkjhz/the_blue_flower_fields_located_in_osaka_japan/

And won't it be nice

Someday this will be in the past.

"A pandemic is good for the ratings. My god, he really is a sociopath."
https://mobile.twitter.com/Robert_E_Kelly/status/1244555790066712576

But cute.

Scott Bryan on Twitter: "omg our favourite family have returned to bbc world news"
https://mobile.twitter.com/scottygb/status/1243092328446902277

"BBC Dad has learned a thing or two about working from home"
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/bbc-dad-has-learned-thing-two-about-working-home

Maybe this is a better communication.

It is of course good to appreciate nice things...

Actually, though "Many of these folks have helped to make your lives easier" is pretty on point.

However, it is quite unnecessary for the well-off to brag about that quarantine BBQ by the backyard pool right now.

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1244453401183715329

It wasn't all that necessary last month, either.

PPE Mask Art

"Inside the start of the great virus airlift - Axios"

https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-airlift-masks-medical-supplies-1d1913bf-744e-41cf-895c-d8934afa2c36.html

Looking forward to...

Not feeling nauseated with worry when the phone pings as I wake up in the morning. Morning after morning after morning. At least I can fall asleep at night though.

Braiding Sweetgrass looks really good to read

"The book is all about reciprocity, Kimmerer explained, and how do people enter into reciprocity with the world, giving back in return for the gifts of the earth. 'When a book with a message like that hits the best sellers list I can only be hopeful that means that these ideas have adherents. … There are places in Braiding Sweetgrass where I ask, ‘Aren’t we a better species than this?’ and for the book to be doing so well gives me the answer that ‘Yes, yes we are.'”

~ K. B. Moore

https://realfoodmedia.org/dr-robin-kimmerers-braiding-sweetgrass-hits-new-york-times-best-sellers-list/

Thank you for your donations

They need more masks and there are many pieces about it.

Reading about the background behind "Derry Girls"

It's good to learn more!!!!

https://www.vulture.com/2019/08/netflix-derry-girls-northern-irish-family.html

Learning about one Rachael Robertson

Here
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8164167/Leadership-expert-explains-no-triangle-prevent-anger-isolation.html

and here! https://www.rachaelrobertson.com.au/#expedition-leader

So this was worth listening to a second time...

"In this episode, to understand how the coronavirus is affecting and might affect our food, we talk to an economist, a farmer, and, of course, the people who really make farms go — the farmworkers."

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/25/821593542/episode-984-food-and-farmworkers

"Recent interviews with California farmworkers conducted by Líderes Campesinas, reveal that although considered 'essential' to the U.S. economy, they are also the most vulnerable link in our nation’s food supply chain...In the midst of National Farm Workers Awareness Week and the advent of Cesar Chavez Day, let us commit to focusing on the special needs of those that continue to put food on our tables..."

~ Irene de Barraicua, Líderes Campesinas

https://pasoroblesdailynews.com/letter-to-the-editor-farmworkers-are-essential-yet-vulnerable/106464/

Is this a good time to break old patterns?

"The first time he screams, or lies, or steals, it’s easy to show grace and patience. But after the thirtieth time? The fiftieth? The hundredth? It gets a lot harder to empathize with how he’s feeling."

"We like to put parameters on other people’s healing. We like to think we understand how long is 'long enough' for someone to display the affects of their trauma. We like to believe we know how much empathy a person is allowed to have before they’ve met their limit and shouldn’t be given anymore. We like to decide when people ought to have 'learned by now,' instead of understanding that we have no idea how long it will take them to learn or adjust."

~ W.R. Cummings

https://blogs.psychcentral.com/childhood-behavioral/2020/03/what-the-hardest-year-of-my-life-taught-me-about-kids-who-dont-deserve-gentleness/?li_source=LI&li_medium=popular17

I really like who I live with right now

We worked on a puzzle and watched a funny show last night.

It's great to experience kind people in a time like this.

And to have a good cat.

Something only a small percentage of people could say now

"I said 'I have tenure, so I don't give a %$#@!'

But I was just using abusive language to emotionally vent as I saw many others do.

Afterall, I can't even live a life without healthy people to help me in so many ways!

I guess I give more of a %$#@! than I thought at the time."