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Tag Archives: covid pandemic
call for the Captain ashore, let me go home
In 2017 a study was done to determine what the first thoughts were when people woke up in the morning. According to Brooke Nelson in thehealthy.com, research found that “most Americans think first of money and work when they wake … Continue reading
Posted in family life, Lesbian Literary, Life, Personal, Reflections, Slice of Life, The Way Life Is, The Way Life Should Be
Tagged 13 remains of soldiers lost in afghanistan returned, afghan refugees airlifted out of kabul, call for the captain ashore, covid pandemic, hurricane ida, kingston trio, survey of what people think when they wake up in the morning, the wreck of the john b
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going for gold in an inferno of sand in Tokyo while America burns and Europe floods
Pretty follows the Olympics as faithfully as I do the tennis majors; therefore, I also follow the Olympics which apparently are being carried on at least a gazillion channels in U-verse land without an adequate GPS to locate your destination. … Continue reading
Posted in family life, Humor, Lesbian Literary, Life, Personal, Reflections, sexism, Slice of Life, sports, The Way Life Is, The Way Life Should Be
Tagged 2020 Tokyo Olympics, covid pandemic, downton abbey, european floods, hot in tokyo, tropical storms near japan, us wild fires, women's beach volleyball in olympics
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troubles in texas
Our thoughts for the past few days have turned south and west toward my home state of Texas, and Pretty’s second home state with me when we were bi-stateual from 2010 – 2014. We are a thousand miles from our … Continue reading
yep – this is who we are
The images flashing across the television screen this week were appalling but compelling. I couldn’t look away, even when I didn’t want to see, much less believe, what was happening in my nation’s capitol. An estimated 10,000 of mostly white … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020 election, covid pandemic, humpty dumpty trumpty, insurrection of 2021, joe biden, kamala harris, phone call to georgia sec of state, results of election, white nationalists
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the essence of giving thanks
“The oak trees were alive with color in the midst of the evergreens. Bright red and yellow leaves catching the sunlight as Daddy and I walked through the brush on this Thanksgiving morning. The smell of the pines was fresh … Continue reading
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Tagged assault on democracy, covid pandemic, deep in the heart: a memoir of love and longing, family gatherings at Thanksgiving, family ties, father daughter bonds, grimes/montgomery counties, keep distances, love of nature, masks, new granddaughter, piney woods of east texas, sharing air, thanksgiving in the usa, washing hands
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