tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68345159623676991332024-03-29T07:02:59.014-04:00When I was 69who knew all this would happen afterwardsBarbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.comBlogger2480125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6834515962367699133.post-46465804152865602952024-03-29T03:00:00.105-04:002024-03-29T03:00:00.150-04:00Women authors<p> Since March is Women's History Month, I'll share a few women authors. No details, just photos of them.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMzzChRKZmWiw-DgRl1aD-a3JIWmj3RtWwjGmpH0uvb7U2p5jJqQrvEzBWGVpLwEA4jvzChPaLwSkxrBAqf462tFKPD-lYD3I93FtWD3CAjomLuk7H6EnUYoAyrv83FLkytFZEn-Iv1UcP8FL7VVMGK-XRXWXt6Un9Lsm68TWuCmKVSuFo8LX5Gpk0jhAa/s865/Nelly%20Bly.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="865" data-original-width="526" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMzzChRKZmWiw-DgRl1aD-a3JIWmj3RtWwjGmpH0uvb7U2p5jJqQrvEzBWGVpLwEA4jvzChPaLwSkxrBAqf462tFKPD-lYD3I93FtWD3CAjomLuk7H6EnUYoAyrv83FLkytFZEn-Iv1UcP8FL7VVMGK-XRXWXt6Un9Lsm68TWuCmKVSuFo8LX5Gpk0jhAa/w390-h640/Nelly%20Bly.jpg" width="390" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">#1</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="317" data-original-width="220" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2dcLUg2k8r14gv_v-VycVGYr1WoIM-3FhqHon4Zwk2bzJZwEGpM0-0cTHYavLoV8YLmIgEu4KNa1TsRJLynDXkY8aQzfv2YZNgqlEYTyWrB0suKNtPLsjsilZwXoO2roFjsUJDET8_aQoA8Jy3YImw07ArB5PLfx9OOvwihVohmACQHciqmEUk5ofn1Pi/w444-h640/Hurston-Zora-Neale-LOC.jpg" width="444" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">#4</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi44ZldyUmP2mmyySOTjaiYg4Lbus-9_tnRWufQJAPCq7ede28Xt0paWi9ZUBfKaK0PsIZl5WelaulYJqrndQuvcK5otEkjppNMaJJSAGXCc7mzD3jzfesc2MeHlddreMVU7ir4xERsokKhVnYbrzmTyubukr7L8bJb6MTSwdoUaXQIKA3I6I9J4tenN89X/s594/Pearl%20S.%20Buck.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="594" data-original-width="455" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi44ZldyUmP2mmyySOTjaiYg4Lbus-9_tnRWufQJAPCq7ede28Xt0paWi9ZUBfKaK0PsIZl5WelaulYJqrndQuvcK5otEkjppNMaJJSAGXCc7mzD3jzfesc2MeHlddreMVU7ir4xERsokKhVnYbrzmTyubukr7L8bJb6MTSwdoUaXQIKA3I6I9J4tenN89X/w490-h640/Pearl%20S.%20Buck.jpg" width="490" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">#5</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpX7napwZB4rUqZHdff9sDuq8L0DWgnEXjxd8p7ToRP3KES9uiL4Ej7wbj2Ev1_Gx8mwDuOaI54KcdL4yJPv4pa-OMwkdPaJY8mbOfgi7PXZOqyRGEPYNVqBXXcI65qh5l-od5-pLb1lE6w47zcRTEIfAFi76KMXc3BMJgJQ28rkinPADqyle_DbZwFelU/s474/Rita%20Mae%20Brown.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="253" data-original-width="474" height="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpX7napwZB4rUqZHdff9sDuq8L0DWgnEXjxd8p7ToRP3KES9uiL4Ej7wbj2Ev1_Gx8mwDuOaI54KcdL4yJPv4pa-OMwkdPaJY8mbOfgi7PXZOqyRGEPYNVqBXXcI65qh5l-od5-pLb1lE6w47zcRTEIfAFi76KMXc3BMJgJQ28rkinPADqyle_DbZwFelU/w640-h342/Rita%20Mae%20Brown.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">#6</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdXMFDZQgHNQM24GBeIlHce7t5ydIwJqdY_YvtyRE-jwoyIl78t6C0VKgBWUewzu4aIXurSSjpenqMsIvcpVB6_B1eZLVSh8mIbw38j1K7oAYK_fKEOvpRmRYWvAr2L6ybxX7IevTE1Bj7-uk_FGjn7so6iRlZRBTg4X3Aev7jt25OYkFknfSEJj6h7eSt/s532/Annelinde%20Metzner.JPEG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="532" data-original-width="399" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdXMFDZQgHNQM24GBeIlHce7t5ydIwJqdY_YvtyRE-jwoyIl78t6C0VKgBWUewzu4aIXurSSjpenqMsIvcpVB6_B1eZLVSh8mIbw38j1K7oAYK_fKEOvpRmRYWvAr2L6ybxX7IevTE1Bj7-uk_FGjn7so6iRlZRBTg4X3Aev7jt25OYkFknfSEJj6h7eSt/w480-h640/Annelinde%20Metzner.JPEG" width="480" /></a></div>#8</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrl3pdRI-P7mpGMdUKezfRkkb0IYbb_hnqLVknKMjj1PkfPW4AhqMdzwOe5pinkTLV06MX1nHt3jz7ZPCstjmXOOT66XOBFAFIvjUrqUucXjSAYreLQJZp8c167i1Kf5Ju0Yt0xJwlkkyj9CvG9ce02RqnMuTXbtgciOe0O8xtG0KA5MB-H28FAApe8X2A/s536/Alice%20Walker.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="536" data-original-width="536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrl3pdRI-P7mpGMdUKezfRkkb0IYbb_hnqLVknKMjj1PkfPW4AhqMdzwOe5pinkTLV06MX1nHt3jz7ZPCstjmXOOT66XOBFAFIvjUrqUucXjSAYreLQJZp8c167i1Kf5Ju0Yt0xJwlkkyj9CvG9ce02RqnMuTXbtgciOe0O8xtG0KA5MB-H28FAApe8X2A/w640-h640/Alice%20Walker.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">#9</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAm1XI0h_2QmybItEMIuRPNdBpPOhyphenhyphenE9bJcitOuIrvWY5VFc1MLSKRDsenLyY_uuTAr9ToSgpBJlyEI4i-tqJoRLvWX0J3RpVAFSA1oFgu2tGQqIl4sVIqYcb9V1P5dJ2BeDL7Q3-ztxFpnUpdoSChVHhkbWdLxeYDnyK3R6rqLlpxBceEu7NjVg1Mev1P/s746/Agatha%20Christi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="746" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAm1XI0h_2QmybItEMIuRPNdBpPOhyphenhyphenE9bJcitOuIrvWY5VFc1MLSKRDsenLyY_uuTAr9ToSgpBJlyEI4i-tqJoRLvWX0J3RpVAFSA1oFgu2tGQqIl4sVIqYcb9V1P5dJ2BeDL7Q3-ztxFpnUpdoSChVHhkbWdLxeYDnyK3R6rqLlpxBceEu7NjVg1Mev1P/w640-h356/Agatha%20Christi.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">#10</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil8CYLFD-X02hu8bSU5gGEMeXXz76tXSQdfKFOkmnzgeQbzLIrUYBeGDSxxlaLN4YfOr_1v-t1FpS6wUFFSWjDKSyT34gLcUvFzw6balMX_-S6GWgdxAtzxjjfQ7ojXDUiMuT5XkkV5OsEfC59Hr_EU4GjOatnoPkedMpX-_xm7HcWGHPpkPc7kUdUBDIx/s561/Beatrix%20Potter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="347" data-original-width="561" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil8CYLFD-X02hu8bSU5gGEMeXXz76tXSQdfKFOkmnzgeQbzLIrUYBeGDSxxlaLN4YfOr_1v-t1FpS6wUFFSWjDKSyT34gLcUvFzw6balMX_-S6GWgdxAtzxjjfQ7ojXDUiMuT5XkkV5OsEfC59Hr_EU4GjOatnoPkedMpX-_xm7HcWGHPpkPc7kUdUBDIx/w640-h396/Beatrix%20Potter.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">#11</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ2CHyx9DOZ9p426j92wbxCRxrWL0GyqwWu8u3M-EBZEL38RGEXXLtseKrD5Vj7pnlrHX0F_7SAifCZv4EXvesw_lW6NqYq2516dFRMPWeE5BfsFEnychNkzmY07vkVJA9kl0IFeej4C788FvQYQS0XzIFz5c7zsihO9bpR14uf_AKn6kxd8hQzO4O5ldd/s320/Greta%20Thunberg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="298" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ2CHyx9DOZ9p426j92wbxCRxrWL0GyqwWu8u3M-EBZEL38RGEXXLtseKrD5Vj7pnlrHX0F_7SAifCZv4EXvesw_lW6NqYq2516dFRMPWeE5BfsFEnychNkzmY07vkVJA9kl0IFeej4C788FvQYQS0XzIFz5c7zsihO9bpR14uf_AKn6kxd8hQzO4O5ldd/w596-h640/Greta%20Thunberg.jpg" width="596" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">#12</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidEyf0FHPp_Ii9iKdNSbJgDX9LWfiHZVu_EhYYoPngd4hu2MoaC9SttMXdutiig53cYJobPkhJVTPQrrdQ87ws8WduY0GGgdLuraMi-cR8ymug_5PWn_DjdhWGUzJa7wyC-3laBlM8PW6UDFoUuAhqYeVyMSW4_qObp4m8v2U5P7Mr5ZaFvScXftOE0xIY/s320/Maya%20Angelou.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="285" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidEyf0FHPp_Ii9iKdNSbJgDX9LWfiHZVu_EhYYoPngd4hu2MoaC9SttMXdutiig53cYJobPkhJVTPQrrdQ87ws8WduY0GGgdLuraMi-cR8ymug_5PWn_DjdhWGUzJa7wyC-3laBlM8PW6UDFoUuAhqYeVyMSW4_qObp4m8v2U5P7Mr5ZaFvScXftOE0xIY/w570-h640/Maya%20Angelou.jpg" width="570" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">#13</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPC1l4xJ7PYRcbwlggUi_ELKyhAD7hLlJeWN7J882sdpEL58GvkLe0Tm0Fo0J68LmpQ3Tc7qeK-ZTR4PQkdljIa-K-c0ZDF4ugnWlSDEdAScfPHj8j7dK8D8NJWtRp3ozuToeZXwAB3RHs_wfNcyNkjmDABYYaGsoW9M2XkvLfUgRI469OPgLx9U1x8Gjz/s320/Rachel%20Carson.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="252" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPC1l4xJ7PYRcbwlggUi_ELKyhAD7hLlJeWN7J882sdpEL58GvkLe0Tm0Fo0J68LmpQ3Tc7qeK-ZTR4PQkdljIa-K-c0ZDF4ugnWlSDEdAScfPHj8j7dK8D8NJWtRp3ozuToeZXwAB3RHs_wfNcyNkjmDABYYaGsoW9M2XkvLfUgRI469OPgLx9U1x8Gjz/w504-h640/Rachel%20Carson.png" width="504" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">#14<br /><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'm sure you knew a lot of these authors. But here's the list, in case you want to check. I've posted these photos in the last year or so of these women, here on this blog.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1. Nelly Bly</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">2. Eleanor Roosevelt</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">3. Audre Lorde</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">4. Zora Neale Hurston</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">5. Pearl S. Buck</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">6. Rita Mae Brown</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">7. Carol Christ</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">8. Annelinde Metzner<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">9. Alice Walker</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">10. Agatha Christie</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">11. Beatrix Potter</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">12. Greta Thunberg</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">13. Maya Angelou</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">14. Rachel Carson</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">They may well have had to struggle with their writings, but I wonder if they would have had that stare into space shown in the prompt photo below.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyeMnrKPIn1DwfR8oiitCyPsJEsdljLc1LpiIOzEiUeNzPWx4fKDgXLAqkFXwuX9Owu5OuxWtzfFK0ZXFKOtR9GJy4hpk0_AY_I7EtGwpycnTAhuU_7-Bnem6nXQ0soNWNND2lU9BcE_8clNYW35nSjlSapkw9S4YDoav5oNPxIrFxZ6x8uy9qw0rZAU6D/s400/24%20%20Mar%2030%2001272sepia.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyeMnrKPIn1DwfR8oiitCyPsJEsdljLc1LpiIOzEiUeNzPWx4fKDgXLAqkFXwuX9Owu5OuxWtzfFK0ZXFKOtR9GJy4hpk0_AY_I7EtGwpycnTAhuU_7-Bnem6nXQ0soNWNND2lU9BcE_8clNYW35nSjlSapkw9S4YDoav5oNPxIrFxZ6x8uy9qw0rZAU6D/w400-h400/24%20%20Mar%2030%2001272sepia.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p>For Sepia Saturday this week...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiljvHLtjASz_OynXtWlsfJGzQHo9MlJYSbhCiC9lU7lrAB414cuREB29zRvPxGJe2NRpGUN6sNypXeApezzhyphenhyphenIE-rGZoPEHVq-iaYJFemIjzEyE89yADwCNvQwKrgzIta6CgMQwV875DR6l6fD-oiLyizwfoN-YWTlCsAbpKSGScRf0FAPx-IOY8YqWLQC/s242/Sepia%20Saturday.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="97" data-original-width="242" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiljvHLtjASz_OynXtWlsfJGzQHo9MlJYSbhCiC9lU7lrAB414cuREB29zRvPxGJe2NRpGUN6sNypXeApezzhyphenhyphenIE-rGZoPEHVq-iaYJFemIjzEyE89yADwCNvQwKrgzIta6CgMQwV875DR6l6fD-oiLyizwfoN-YWTlCsAbpKSGScRf0FAPx-IOY8YqWLQC/w320-h128/Sepia%20Saturday.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6834515962367699133.post-82744473198434279852024-03-28T03:00:00.012-04:002024-03-28T08:09:06.782-04:00Put food on the table, a roof over your head, and...<p> <span style="background-color: #f9f9f7; font-family: Bradford, "Times New Roman", Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.8px; letter-spacing: 0.4px;">"Subsidence remains a threat, but it isn’t by any means our only or even our most urgent one. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f9f9f7; font-family: Bradford, "Times New Roman", Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.8px; letter-spacing: 0.4px;">"Increasingly, we face those “serious world-wide environmental changes” scientists warned about more than fifty years ago: sea level rise, floods, erosion, more and stronger hurricanes, more and stronger floods, winter storms that plunge millions into freezing darkness for days, and threaten blackout for months—pollution, fires, droughts, extinctions. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f9f9f7; font-family: Bradford, "Times New Roman", Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.8px; letter-spacing: 0.4px;">Lacy M. Johnson, in "What Survives" essay in <i>Emergence Magazine</i></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f9f9f7;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Bradford, "Times New Roman", Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.8px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQe7It1oMaNvebazvL1ikOrVapNGEdj4zyh5mcaV9bsTgxn9-mki6Sn9jQfrFqcwElxY5ASMaObSEuSxcRnqIUVn7nAUHBR7zij0iUIzEv-7gDThKFN5CziY5fjqpyhRBoXCx6PvAC22vAvFxZtGpeKICWlV5uTe97KVtNcmg-P_6eH7wo3dSFyCSyJo0b/s1000/unnamed.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="1000" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQe7It1oMaNvebazvL1ikOrVapNGEdj4zyh5mcaV9bsTgxn9-mki6Sn9jQfrFqcwElxY5ASMaObSEuSxcRnqIUVn7nAUHBR7zij0iUIzEv-7gDThKFN5CziY5fjqpyhRBoXCx6PvAC22vAvFxZtGpeKICWlV5uTe97KVtNcmg-P_6eH7wo3dSFyCSyJo0b/w408-h272/unnamed.jpg" width="408" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Bradford, "Times New Roman", Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.8px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeuneVG2HrOgy9CmZB3LNQaOAoD0iqHEKQP4gLuY_vEkU928fPboCxa66g59KE0G17ZSB-HxwgpIZ0w3soov6fj1_uRLgXHgWqSJweglKawn0NsHu9_d-aiC5vswemMfFtIiKftt4SOIRiZoz1GPcD2Lp_9wIobKXDPH3Fo_VexJRF8A0tvzD4gVX0WTwJ/s500/17550083754096807415.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="261" data-original-width="500" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeuneVG2HrOgy9CmZB3LNQaOAoD0iqHEKQP4gLuY_vEkU928fPboCxa66g59KE0G17ZSB-HxwgpIZ0w3soov6fj1_uRLgXHgWqSJweglKawn0NsHu9_d-aiC5vswemMfFtIiKftt4SOIRiZoz1GPcD2Lp_9wIobKXDPH3Fo_VexJRF8A0tvzD4gVX0WTwJ/w472-h246/17550083754096807415.jpg" width="472" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Bradford, "Times New Roman", Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.8px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPOZj97cGNqlXi4cn-rGemS2WP1OrFB5rvWK5jcs6xaUzxXBO4Zd30Q4tui0OszKkqdoouemqOXayzbuu3eIIR0Y73lG0WbILOS6P-bNjN-ccxJ0nLL9lwQzyBYXDj31yxfb18afPdzlvCX8cDdZuNtARwWmXetCVGZWhQZQXPEBnPQy4YJmX1c6C-_cBt/s600/glacier.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="600" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPOZj97cGNqlXi4cn-rGemS2WP1OrFB5rvWK5jcs6xaUzxXBO4Zd30Q4tui0OszKkqdoouemqOXayzbuu3eIIR0Y73lG0WbILOS6P-bNjN-ccxJ0nLL9lwQzyBYXDj31yxfb18afPdzlvCX8cDdZuNtARwWmXetCVGZWhQZQXPEBnPQy4YJmX1c6C-_cBt/w457-h304/glacier.jpg" width="457" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Bradford, "Times New Roman", Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.8px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Ae_S8i8FtTNvwffFoeTThhuV6v9Gaq2pzrwo7PdoAH7VabAcTN20Sg3ejHZZK5CPhY3AGO3n9vdnOD3cO00gpDC-SrU-kGEaJ2kcT3gXfMMVEUhjBWnrcmSWvo1slBB13UvcYyPgwSphHC0Szd4TzL8n68s0pL8afwrFjqoAt7DkJ15cmPpQr_oqMCtd/s960/Blackfeet%20camp%20at%20night%202.%20Montana.%20Early%201900s.%20Glass%20lantern%20slide%20by%20Walter%20McClintock.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="752" data-original-width="960" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Ae_S8i8FtTNvwffFoeTThhuV6v9Gaq2pzrwo7PdoAH7VabAcTN20Sg3ejHZZK5CPhY3AGO3n9vdnOD3cO00gpDC-SrU-kGEaJ2kcT3gXfMMVEUhjBWnrcmSWvo1slBB13UvcYyPgwSphHC0Szd4TzL8n68s0pL8afwrFjqoAt7DkJ15cmPpQr_oqMCtd/w528-h414/Blackfeet%20camp%20at%20night%202.%20Montana.%20Early%201900s.%20Glass%20lantern%20slide%20by%20Walter%20McClintock.jpg" width="528" /></a></div><p style="font-family: Bradford, "Times New Roman", Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.8px; letter-spacing: 0.4px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.4px;">Blackfeet camp at night 2. Montana. </span></p><p style="font-family: Bradford, "Times New Roman", Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.8px; letter-spacing: 0.4px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.4px;">Early 1900s. Glass lantern slide by Walter McClintock</span></p>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6834515962367699133.post-64410369734832955712024-03-26T03:00:00.008-04:002024-03-26T03:00:00.269-04:00Some fun to consider<p> </p><p><br /></p><p>A short film has a preview:</p><p><a href="https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/03/tennis-oranges-film/">https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/03/tennis-oranges-film/</a></p><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><h1 style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><br /></h1><h1 style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">A Runaway Robot Makes a Difference for Two Lonely Rabbits in the New Stop-Motion Short ‘TENNIS, ORANGES’</h1><p style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 26.4px; margin: 0px;">“Somewhere in the world, there’s a quiet street where nothing ever happens,” begins the tagline for <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://hello.thisiscolossal.com/tf/cl/eyJ2Ijoie1wiYVwiOjIzNjc5MyxcImxcIjoxMTY0Mjk1MjU3NjM0OTA5NTEsXCJyXCI6MTE2NDI5NTc2MTE4MjA4MDI4fSIsInMiOiI2ZTM2NjhkZWI0ZDFmMTBhIn0&source=gmail&ust=1711135918676000&usg=AOvVaw0w6GpC6zXIeJxRFpggAFuo" href="https://hello.thisiscolossal.com/tf/cl/eyJ2Ijoie1wiYVwiOjIzNjc5MyxcImxcIjoxMTY0Mjk1MjU3NjM0OTA5NTEsXCJyXCI6MTE2NDI5NTc2MTE4MjA4MDI4fSIsInMiOiI2ZTM2NjhkZWI0ZDFmMTBhIn0" style="color: #fc4349;" target="_blank">Sean Pecknold</a>’s new short film. </p><p style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 26.4px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZIH7lmedRNSW8RJafT07J-t0FU62TC0KfsSfRhsLHmxxs5dcfoWoXAXuN30N2ajijnvgfjnF8CX-pRGzwnErHwD1PC81boTXzA0d_kEHLBPh8m26MCoAmZmvtYIKJSUjExw1w7TrJ9gGIHb2e44i4CvB0GtavGN-s9r0OBFKJvAqiJ8H0p3q-QlAicUYA/s984/tennis-oranges-1.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="554" data-original-width="984" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZIH7lmedRNSW8RJafT07J-t0FU62TC0KfsSfRhsLHmxxs5dcfoWoXAXuN30N2ajijnvgfjnF8CX-pRGzwnErHwD1PC81boTXzA0d_kEHLBPh8m26MCoAmZmvtYIKJSUjExw1w7TrJ9gGIHb2e44i4CvB0GtavGN-s9r0OBFKJvAqiJ8H0p3q-QlAicUYA/w640-h360/tennis-oranges-1.gif" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="line-height: 26.4px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Just a bit of spring levity!</span></p><p style="line-height: 26.4px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 26.4px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Today's quote: What has occurred over the course of the last few centuries is a growing (but by no means universal or certain) recognition that science gets the job done, while religion makes excuses. Sometimes they are very pretty excuses that capture the imagination of the public, but ultimately, when you want to win a war or heal a dying child or get rich from a discovery or explore Antarctica, you turn to science and reason, or you fail. </span></p><p style="line-height: 26.4px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">-PZ Myers, biology professor (b. 9 Mar 1957)</span></p><p style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 26.4px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 26.4px; margin: 0px;"><br /></p></td></tr></tbody></table>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6834515962367699133.post-74801824186381210852024-03-25T10:15:00.004-04:002024-03-25T10:35:23.192-04:00And for your enjoyment!<p> Do I love forwarding fun things from newsletters? You bet!</p><p>Here is a cool video that's been colorized...from the first films ever by the Lumiere' brothers.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">The YouTube channel </span><em style="background-color: white;">Lost in Time</em><span style="background-color: white;"> has taken </span><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2022/11/around-the-world-in-1896.html" sl-processed="1" style="background-color: white; color: #0183b2; outline: none;">footage</a><span style="background-color: white;"> from the legendary </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_and_Louis_Lumi%C3%A8re" sl-processed="1" style="background-color: white; color: #0183b2; outline: none;">Lumière brothers</a><span style="background-color: white;">, originally shot in 1896, then upscaled and colorized it, giving us a chance to see a distant world through a modern lens. Nearing the end of the 19th century, the film pioneers (and their employees) visited different parts of the world and captured footage of life in Barcelona, Jerusalem, Venice, Moscow, Istanbul, Kyoto and other locations. For viewers, unaccustomed to seeing moving films, let alone far-flung parts of the world, it must have been a sight to behold. Below, you can see the different places featured in the footage, along with timestamps. To see what the original black & white</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_and_Louis_Lumi%C3%A8re" sl-processed="1" style="background-color: white; color: #0183b2; outline: none;"> </a><span style="background-color: white;">footage looked like, </span><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2022/11/around-the-world-in-1896.html" sl-processed="1" style="background-color: white; color: #0183b2; outline: none;">visit this post in our archive</a><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></span></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>SOURCE: Open Culture Newsletter</p><p>PS, I subscribed to Lost in Time on YouTube!</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="396" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DDi62bPbWHw" width="476" youtube-src-id="DDi62bPbWHw"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6834515962367699133.post-48752339188893173732024-03-24T08:54:00.000-04:002024-03-24T08:54:14.945-04:00Then there's Grace.<p> Thinking how I have "grace" in my life...</p><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i style="background-color: white;">Grace is always present. You imagine it is somewhere high in the sky,</i></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i style="background-color: white;">far away, and has to descend. It is really inside you, in your Heart.</i></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i style="background-color: white;">Grace is the Self. . . .You are never out of its operation.</i></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">-~ Sri Ramana Maharshi</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I somehow was never taught about grace in my Christian Sunday School classes. How come? And when I left the straight and narrow and tried exploring many other ways of looking at the world (ie other religions.) nobody seemed to tell me about it.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Then within the wonders of Unitarian Universalism, where many faiths are welcome, and sometimes different ones are given the pulpit on a Sunday...I finally learned that I had "Grace" in my life. It was just there, always, and sometime surprisingly available.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">From another blogger, "<a href="https://beautywelove.blogspot.com/2024/03/its-whisper-can-be-heard.html">the beauty we love</a>" I found these quotes on Wednesday. Boy I needed to get in touch with grace the day I read that!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><div style="text-align: center;">Grace is a manifestation of the cosmic free will in operation. </div><div style="text-align: center;">It can alter the course of events in a mysterious manner</div><div style="text-align: center;"> through its own unknown laws, which are superior to</div><div style="text-align: center;"> all natural laws, and can modify the latter by interaction.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">It is the most powerful force in the universe.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">It descends and acts only when it is invoked </div><div style="text-align: center;">by total self- surrender. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Rationalists laugh at it, and atheists scorn it, but it exists.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">It is a visitation of force unexpected and unpredictable.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> It is a voice spoken out of cosmic silence - </div><div style="text-align: center;">It is ‘Cosmic Will which can perform </div><div style="text-align: center;">authentic miracles under its own laws’.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">~ D.C. Desai</div></span><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"> from <i>Divine Grace Through Total Self-Surrender</i></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I've edited this quote so that it is palatable to my own pagan beliefs, where all life is part of a universal spirituality. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I edited out where D.C. Desai used the term "God" which I prefer to avoid, coming from it's patriarchal religious limited background. Remember this is a blog where I share my opinions. You're welcome to comment.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Grace was needed as I struggled with breathing difficulties that day. I tried lying down to rest, only to have more coughs. Earlier I had had to stop the sit-R-cise class when it started the aerobic part. I'm just feeling like things are sort of out of my control. Been there, got the tee-shirt!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And then a dear friend said her debilitating back pain had returned, after having just a week or so without it since the beginning of Feb. She was at church last Sunday for a musical program. This back pain doesn't respond to over the counter meds, but her doctor hasn't offered anything besides muscle relaxants so far. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Then there's my life here, at this little laptop. Yes you can see I do go elsewhere and do other things...but the other day I had a major accident on the laptop. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When reaching for my meds to take with a full mug of ginger ale, I poured the whole mugfull across the keyboard! </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Pick up mug! </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Pick up laptop, and let ginger ale pour onto floor! </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Unplug so I don't electrocute myself! </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Look in panic around living room for anything to start to wipe as much ginger ale off the keyboard as possible!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You can imagine my continued swiping with napkins, a lap blanket, anything. When put upright on its side, ginger ale came out the bottom keys.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I left it in that position, and then switched to damp cloth and towel. Then did the exterior, and the screen. And didn't turn it off.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The next day it had drained the battery while asleep so I plugged it back in, turned it on, and slowly it came to life. Much gratitude felt then! Some grace had gotten me to that point.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I proceeded to copy every file onto a thumb drive before anything else.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh did I mention that that the "big ginger ale fiasco" took place a few hours before I drove at night and picked up my friend from the airport at about 11:20 pm. Did I mention I avoid driving at night? </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I finally got a little sleep before the early morning physical therapy apointment...maybe 6 hours.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I was able to nap later that next day, right through the noon hour. And strangely enough, I didn't succumb to coughing problems. Just mental, and perhaps coordination! Those are conditions I've not had to deal with before, being very careful about not falling.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Second example of grace (receiving good things that I don't necessarily deserve, haven't worked for, haven't even asked for...my definition) was the extra keyboard that had been sitting unused just below the laptop on the slide-out drawer, where the mouse pad was. When I realized all the ginger ale keys would no longer have any bounce, and would require a harder push (well, duh) I tried plugging in the spare keyboard. It was given to me to help with a Mac computer, so I wondered what would happen with the microsoft laptop. First try, "we do not recognize this device." Second try, same. Kept on trying, and finally it's working. (So that part was my diligent effort!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I (like so many bloggers) may suddenly go dark. I don't have any other method to blog. Well, I do have the laptop before the one before this...very very slow. But I can read your blogs. Not sure how photos would go through. But I'm probably going to need to take this laptop in for some kind of cleaning, wouldn't you say?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gratitude comes with grace. The worst didn't happen that evening with ginger ale. The driving was successful though somewhat harrowing with my trying to be safe by using the high beam headlights, but sometimes going too fast when I needed to slow down. It's hard for me to see roads' lines at night, even without cataracts anymore.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We survived. I'm here another day. Much gratitude!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieovNiIlsIte8sEQNwQ146DVch_u7Y-b2ouJXlzCdcOGk38JHf_GXmJJtI1Hj7ww4c2ZaB3Vm1j_RrkTpTfk0EKURXgOLfgC8Rrl7sOeU-l09Qrubga6dqYm3tZiaBQ12wZNfGjxxa5cVQKv5igrPNeh7S_i0MDo6_0Tr0TBiSehvaipi9yKJz-ilP6FiU/s4032/The%20gingerale%20laptop%20fiasco.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieovNiIlsIte8sEQNwQ146DVch_u7Y-b2ouJXlzCdcOGk38JHf_GXmJJtI1Hj7ww4c2ZaB3Vm1j_RrkTpTfk0EKURXgOLfgC8Rrl7sOeU-l09Qrubga6dqYm3tZiaBQ12wZNfGjxxa5cVQKv5igrPNeh7S_i0MDo6_0Tr0TBiSehvaipi9yKJz-ilP6FiU/w480-h640/The%20gingerale%20laptop%20fiasco.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /></span></div></div>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6834515962367699133.post-65631878137271146392024-03-23T03:30:00.044-04:002024-03-23T03:30:00.125-04:00Rain or shine!<p> Some fun in the city...Asheville. On a rainy day no less!</p><p>But we'd planned it for that day, rain or shine, and so we went!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ8SCmAOyDimknNjnglyA5Haj-YSdbEzXYEuuzWC9mIs_X2hi3WRUMkpYQ8aijYcTjU8vuNQQkANNvtLVjwVmKMdW54l8GqiQY1WihNAbW6NgDYfo_doFnzF2enumlIiQpOY6j87bKl8mKsN6esQbMdb7GAn0Vbv1m0XY4UqU05DvNdC0flhbNUZ2shd0B/s2016/IMG_0498.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="381" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ8SCmAOyDimknNjnglyA5Haj-YSdbEzXYEuuzWC9mIs_X2hi3WRUMkpYQ8aijYcTjU8vuNQQkANNvtLVjwVmKMdW54l8GqiQY1WihNAbW6NgDYfo_doFnzF2enumlIiQpOY6j87bKl8mKsN6esQbMdb7GAn0Vbv1m0XY4UqU05DvNdC0flhbNUZ2shd0B/w508-h381/IMG_0498.jpg" width="508" /></a></div>Rainy view of Asheville tall buildings and roofs from the parking garage at Pack Library level, looking east-south (why does that sound wrong? south east, I guess.)<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5TDPxT_-peEUEpKcaqBMrT6D-7JAbbNhBuRwWThjpWEdMfRorwhNgbvrJX2lkVj-AmT4VP14Y94mFqaLaPKD9HJ_q3y0BpNH2cZ9IDuWh0gw2pH0DHGUENvSGCH5enaND8UdvnqTP4-86GmIwQqv4UDRA9VVpwShxLORqkhRn7-R1mVr3jbOA5nTxeWaQ/s2016/IMG_0499.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="373" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5TDPxT_-peEUEpKcaqBMrT6D-7JAbbNhBuRwWThjpWEdMfRorwhNgbvrJX2lkVj-AmT4VP14Y94mFqaLaPKD9HJ_q3y0BpNH2cZ9IDuWh0gw2pH0DHGUENvSGCH5enaND8UdvnqTP4-86GmIwQqv4UDRA9VVpwShxLORqkhRn7-R1mVr3jbOA5nTxeWaQ/w498-h373/IMG_0499.jpg" width="498" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Looking more north east from same position. Raining. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIhLJGG3RLoAVMh5gxJxHJTodEe11kxeaMb9EiINb20REz1j9Fsx-Iqmt8VqrD2FsenayjE74tjf7-EyZ5Z7S-M82dEp8QrVGT9eHr_k7hunZ_Rcw0RNMALFJlHMlky3iVcV8bxmfiwI3i96LpQxEhZfAUepaEshYqIFr632uwjQgJF_htRYIOc0w59eUz/s2016/IMG_0500.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="559" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIhLJGG3RLoAVMh5gxJxHJTodEe11kxeaMb9EiINb20REz1j9Fsx-Iqmt8VqrD2FsenayjE74tjf7-EyZ5Z7S-M82dEp8QrVGT9eHr_k7hunZ_Rcw0RNMALFJlHMlky3iVcV8bxmfiwI3i96LpQxEhZfAUepaEshYqIFr632uwjQgJF_htRYIOc0w59eUz/w419-h559/IMG_0500.jpg" width="419" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A very gentle well trained (67 pound) Great Pyrenees was welcoming pats.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK9QlVVcdmVM0-GYgkiHpYpS8dMmwht9aeaS6eCP5A1axVfxt8Ua97rLeQF7NuL8WW7ozh9O1-Cep6XHZHSX0bflS6tXyCB9SyhPoDY39yxsvtRLZZMbWv08YLo5BOuDMiPlmG3dF6uwMbieBKUZ9PGUjVsCl6LVN9Ho9vmMVmjf0jQWlJGcmGIQ3MNvZc/s2016/IMG_0501.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;">Our first stop was Malaprops Bookstore, and independent local bookstore. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjISOKhyr3ykBXBvA9ksLu9a6x8EAQRYn4q6_8DF-x3_hQa2F4kGLQk8CEnH-vgbIrreZYYodarf-47HVcBlgzE3_TnSP3OVT8wUBy2IicsvwoS0raLe4ReW1cH0yDqd1Lx8Udsymu-IJhIN-6uEn-OPF_2bqBZxRM3KoLLZlNf1WgN4kHHE23rttddJh37/s2016/IMG_0503%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="345" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjISOKhyr3ykBXBvA9ksLu9a6x8EAQRYn4q6_8DF-x3_hQa2F4kGLQk8CEnH-vgbIrreZYYodarf-47HVcBlgzE3_TnSP3OVT8wUBy2IicsvwoS0raLe4ReW1cH0yDqd1Lx8Udsymu-IJhIN-6uEn-OPF_2bqBZxRM3KoLLZlNf1WgN4kHHE23rttddJh37/w460-h345/IMG_0503%20(1).jpg" width="460" /></a></div>I bought a book I've been wanting to read, and my friends may have also.</div><div>More of our trip to the city will follow!<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Sharing with <a href="https://viewingnaturewitheileen.blogspot.com/">Eileen's Saturday Critters.</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCjZiyPWvT7RNgERz6YU0rtRhZe59c4Mi-EMczKyA_7sCMCPpd77WF9wuW1QSBnER1z_5v8hzGftjHMjlBwDCZCTBLB62uAVc5jTEHb8rTd_BY2EsaJT2Bi8ypRRumY-CZ1HcGsM_VisPy7cIxuuhYFL6EzurhiPIzHRdygrzUwuG5QgKpolA79Mlozdl6/s324/saturdays-critters.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="235" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCjZiyPWvT7RNgERz6YU0rtRhZe59c4Mi-EMczKyA_7sCMCPpd77WF9wuW1QSBnER1z_5v8hzGftjHMjlBwDCZCTBLB62uAVc5jTEHb8rTd_BY2EsaJT2Bi8ypRRumY-CZ1HcGsM_VisPy7cIxuuhYFL6EzurhiPIzHRdygrzUwuG5QgKpolA79Mlozdl6/s320/saturdays-critters.jpg" width="232" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Today's quote:</div><div><br /></div><div><span face=""SF Pro Display", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Inter, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">“The end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience. And that will be a day not of the white man, not of the black man. That will be the day of man as man.” </span></div><div><span face=""SF Pro Display", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Inter, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">Martin Luther King at Selma AL on Mar 25, 1965</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p></div>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6834515962367699133.post-17148587249927407852024-03-22T03:00:00.065-04:002024-03-22T21:00:30.305-04:00World Water Day today<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span face="source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #292929; letter-spacing: -0.06px;">On March 22, people from all around the world will gather near rivers, streams, lakes, ponds, wetlands, to sing for the healing of the waters of the Earth and the healing of our inner waters. March 22 has for many years been recognized as “World Water Day” all around the globe.</span></span></p><p><span face="source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #292929; letter-spacing: -0.06px;">Sharing with </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; letter-spacing: -0.06px;"><a href="https://roentare.zenfolio.com/blog.">water-h2o-thursday</a> if I can find the link again! Thanks Linda...have a link now!</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.06px;">Some of my water photos I like best.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgaDcKydpkQUX_qMpTj3N9ieG3pS97IsMRYG-buA2RyqhPPF0qmjh3CEMDd_OCtWRyx8h-RX7rFjxTkY9VebitXtCsk5CCs1G0ObdeDXHKtRYZhFQpsQHhlHnBDtiYJ5AMoa7lyHEgLtbUncY_k0f_MmMhVs3iXs5nvPKJ6DLViX6F9Pm8fPEOj90FFQ8m/s2016/IMG_0164.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="335" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgaDcKydpkQUX_qMpTj3N9ieG3pS97IsMRYG-buA2RyqhPPF0qmjh3CEMDd_OCtWRyx8h-RX7rFjxTkY9VebitXtCsk5CCs1G0ObdeDXHKtRYZhFQpsQHhlHnBDtiYJ5AMoa7lyHEgLtbUncY_k0f_MmMhVs3iXs5nvPKJ6DLViX6F9Pm8fPEOj90FFQ8m/w446-h335/IMG_0164.jpg" width="446" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Flat Creek, Montreat NC</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy-_fHlI-9k8N1d1PquXYhtaHxptIK3IThyphenhyphen8Yw5YmMwA8do-PLSqW33oVQvAqsdukrK0hVtl57cABPn_tqSvOHssEm4zTdNKQmgFxGZRvY7ml44JerrpnEUNvFxtnWBfpQNK6K7bTk311zsvnKdezGtHIur3ubv0Ml_e8zZYXfvARVrEQAsZW7D4bekWNo/s4032/IMG_0176.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="535" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy-_fHlI-9k8N1d1PquXYhtaHxptIK3IThyphenhyphen8Yw5YmMwA8do-PLSqW33oVQvAqsdukrK0hVtl57cABPn_tqSvOHssEm4zTdNKQmgFxGZRvY7ml44JerrpnEUNvFxtnWBfpQNK6K7bTk311zsvnKdezGtHIur3ubv0Ml_e8zZYXfvARVrEQAsZW7D4bekWNo/w401-h535/IMG_0176.jpg" width="401" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The three pines on the dam of Lake Tomahawk, while lake was dammed in Jan 2024. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Black Mountain NC</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje5v_KOUpcmUmmx7_vvFUIbTew4R3SMbzqO0CrgeZAilgNSo7so4zxIaSbyNpe43kTT6Y4TEpbNc1jCtkeTSR7tPQwX-lrZUy_4iO7QReg46B155m1weqI0X40mK5e51u9R-p4xCsm89sESm9ShZVHX1RG5g7dsBAQ9K-DLU9GJM46nWxKCSd1uPbCqR-w/s2048/IMG_8328.JPEG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="373" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje5v_KOUpcmUmmx7_vvFUIbTew4R3SMbzqO0CrgeZAilgNSo7so4zxIaSbyNpe43kTT6Y4TEpbNc1jCtkeTSR7tPQwX-lrZUy_4iO7QReg46B155m1weqI0X40mK5e51u9R-p4xCsm89sESm9ShZVHX1RG5g7dsBAQ9K-DLU9GJM46nWxKCSd1uPbCqR-w/w498-h373/IMG_8328.JPEG" width="498" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Lake Tomahawk in summertime.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQI6zoKUu7CtRMWwQ_k9TwwModPqYouh29PUPgueYwFPihBGqHlRigvgxpQEP9TJT6tY91ntKoshdGMz20zyOLPI-pnHKxBisLV12S2mNxUZPZUSJqP0LRPt7zyVnYo_avoLbY5shESYRmieW03BpJ0yqIfsShKposiszBNd6_oVxEFCi2PAa59JUGljog/s2016/IMG_9982.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQI6zoKUu7CtRMWwQ_k9TwwModPqYouh29PUPgueYwFPihBGqHlRigvgxpQEP9TJT6tY91ntKoshdGMz20zyOLPI-pnHKxBisLV12S2mNxUZPZUSJqP0LRPt7zyVnYo_avoLbY5shESYRmieW03BpJ0yqIfsShKposiszBNd6_oVxEFCi2PAa59JUGljog/w558-h418/IMG_9982.jpg" width="558" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Lake Tomahawk in wintertime, with snowy slopes of the mountains which the Blue Ridge Parkway traverses.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7GfL30dz0giOgNP3F9SeWuuXhAVvBLcjvn_1XKFF-h5-v8igqOD4F4EzOamnIRDY7OzvlY9GiQYeTH4AXHtqfGc32NvsDhTmJwyoXF7Ge9Tw5fODL9cvix2u0hlsBJZtzUwbxhpX7tqJZ1QSE02eVWe7O04H0XKmeln6BkuOxIMB5z7JO8hI_pxttbDF5/s544/IMG_0311.JPEG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="544" data-original-width="408" height="549" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7GfL30dz0giOgNP3F9SeWuuXhAVvBLcjvn_1XKFF-h5-v8igqOD4F4EzOamnIRDY7OzvlY9GiQYeTH4AXHtqfGc32NvsDhTmJwyoXF7Ge9Tw5fODL9cvix2u0hlsBJZtzUwbxhpX7tqJZ1QSE02eVWe7O04H0XKmeln6BkuOxIMB5z7JO8hI_pxttbDF5/w412-h549/IMG_0311.JPEG" width="412" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Swannanoa River beside the Watson Community Gardens, Black Mountain NC. Here's my blog (including a video) about that visit <a href="https://boardwalkbarb.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-swannanoa-river-again.html">The Swannanoa River Again.</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">------------------------</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And a disturbing article, if the link still works:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #393845; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large; letter-spacing: -1.33px; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #393845; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large; letter-spacing: -1.33px; text-align: center;">Conservation Groups Sue Utah for Starving the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #393845; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large; letter-spacing: -1.33px; text-align: center;">Great Salt Lake of Water</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="comp article-subheading" id="article-subheading_1-0" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #767676; font-family: Grad, Times, "Times New Roman", Georgia, serif; line-height: 1.75rem; margin: 0.4rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.treehugger.com/conservation-groups-sue-utah-great-salt-lake-7966156?hid=c4873971f526cbe35825a2a28c74987cf8b0dc1d&did=10209024-20230908&utm_source=treehugger&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=treehugger-daily_newsletter&utm_content=090823&lctg=c4873971f526cbe35825a2a28c74987cf8b0dc1d">From Treehugger's newsletter Sept 6, 2023</a> by Melissa Breyer </p><p class="comp article-subheading" id="article-subheading_1-0" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #767676; font-family: Grad, Times, "Times New Roman", Georgia, serif; line-height: 1.75rem; margin: 0.4rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p class="comp article-subheading" id="article-subheading_1-0" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #767676; font-family: Grad, Times, "Times New Roman", Georgia, serif; line-height: 1.75rem; margin: 0.4rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.06px;"><br /></span><p></p>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6834515962367699133.post-58496813354002375412024-03-18T03:00:00.043-04:002024-03-18T10:23:00.258-04:00All life...<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">"We have been carrying on two parallel conversations, one about respecting human diversity, the other about preserving natural diversity. Unless we merge those conversations, both will be futile. Our efforts to honor human differences cannot succeed apart from our effort to honor the buzzing, blooming, bewildering variety of life of earth. All life rises from the same source, and so does all fellow feeling, whether the fellow moves on two legs or four, on scaly bellies or feathered wings. If we care only for human needs, we betray the land; if we care only for the earth and its wild offspring, we betray our own kind. The profusion of creatures and cultures is the most remarkable fact about our planet, and the study and stewardship of that profusion seems to me our fundamental task."</span></p><div class="gmail_default"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Scott Russell Sanders</span></span></p></blockquote><p>About the author:</p></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="gmail_default"><p style="text-align: left;"><span face="Segoe, "Segoe UI", "DejaVu Sans", "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">Scott Russell Sanders was born in Memphis, Tennessee. His father came from a family of cotton farmers in Mississippi, his mother from an immigrant doctor’s family in Chicago. He spent his early childhood in Tennessee and his school years in Ohio. </span></p></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="gmail_default"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Segoe, "Segoe UI", "DejaVu Sans", "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, sans-serif"> In the past decade he has published</span><em style="font-family: Segoe, "Segoe UI", "DejaVu Sans", "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, sans-serif;"> A Conservationist Manifesto</em><span face="Segoe, "Segoe UI", "DejaVu Sans", "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, sans-serif">, his vision of a shift from a culture of consumption to a culture of caretaking; </span><em style="font-family: Segoe, "Segoe UI", "DejaVu Sans", "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, sans-serif;">Earth Works</em><span face="Segoe, "Segoe UI", "DejaVu Sans", "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, sans-serif">, a selection of his best essays from the past thirty years; the novel </span><em style="font-family: Segoe, "Segoe UI", "DejaVu Sans", "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, sans-serif;">Divine Animal</em><span face="Segoe, "Segoe UI", "DejaVu Sans", "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, sans-serif">; </span><em style="font-family: Segoe, "Segoe UI", "DejaVu Sans", "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, sans-serif;">Dancing in Dreamtime</em><span face="Segoe, "Segoe UI", "DejaVu Sans", "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, sans-serif">, a collection of eco-science fiction stories; and </span><em style="font-family: Segoe, "Segoe UI", "DejaVu Sans", "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, sans-serif;">Stone Country: Then & Now</em><span face="Segoe, "Segoe UI", "DejaVu Sans", "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, sans-serif">, a new and enlarged edition of his documentary narrative co-authored with photographer Jeffrey Wolin. His children's books include </span><em style="font-family: Segoe, "Segoe UI", "DejaVu Sans", "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, sans-serif;">Aurora Means Dawn</em><span face="Segoe, "Segoe UI", "DejaVu Sans", "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, sans-serif">, </span><em style="font-family: Segoe, "Segoe UI", "DejaVu Sans", "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, sans-serif;">Warm as Wool</em><span face="Segoe, "Segoe UI", "DejaVu Sans", "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, sans-serif">, </span><em style="font-family: Segoe, "Segoe UI", "DejaVu Sans", "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, sans-serif;">Meeting Trees</em><span face="Segoe, "Segoe UI", "DejaVu Sans", "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, sans-serif">, and </span><em style="font-family: Segoe, "Segoe UI", "DejaVu Sans", "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, sans-serif;">The Floating House</em><span face="Segoe, "Segoe UI", "DejaVu Sans", "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, sans-serif">.</span></span></p></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="gmail_default"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Segoe, "Segoe UI", "DejaVu Sans", "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, sans-serif">He is currently at work on a collection of short stories, a book about the meaning of wealth, and a collection of essays about the role of imagination in an age of climate disruption. His writing examines the human place in nature, the pursuit of social justice, the relation between culture and geography, and the search for a spiritual path.</span> </span></p></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_default"><p>Published as his biography, June 2023</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjrYtg2TTDv_YMKR_LkTB3jvozTH378zd9vbRtOv2nSkcT2yRFj076PCwx4sZu7PGbNtz-pWSSr8G81LO_2HE3DvzVM2fmoV1e7by1NtPMXdoVbj6tdivQDAkxVKp-kZ-ZsZegI2cxbgL13tScGwUGYnEm2M8SKanIbQugDbC2Aser9TBLjZekJa2klqLz/s960/Ana%20Maria%20Silva..jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="669" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjrYtg2TTDv_YMKR_LkTB3jvozTH378zd9vbRtOv2nSkcT2yRFj076PCwx4sZu7PGbNtz-pWSSr8G81LO_2HE3DvzVM2fmoV1e7by1NtPMXdoVbj6tdivQDAkxVKp-kZ-ZsZegI2cxbgL13tScGwUGYnEm2M8SKanIbQugDbC2Aser9TBLjZekJa2klqLz/w446-h640/Ana%20Maria%20Silva..jpg" width="446" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">by Anna Marie Silva</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJqID_1Hcml0mUchIP6QqARFNPIH2CPPip5wiiMRcK-46b-_pSzDcD1kpP321iXAt73NeQEMGsGOBw9DEhXMlAVoeI-69I8fQ3h5OFjmU6gTwkXAwX6DKYidslWesc6z6QK8dJ1A-RsB6x1s6-AMNxkr0VPXSMAhU9QQ9Vp2BQ3A_sPkyopd6Sqq9t_eui/s1920/Burnett%20Reservoir,%20by%20SVMuseum%20&%20History.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1536" height="523" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJqID_1Hcml0mUchIP6QqARFNPIH2CPPip5wiiMRcK-46b-_pSzDcD1kpP321iXAt73NeQEMGsGOBw9DEhXMlAVoeI-69I8fQ3h5OFjmU6gTwkXAwX6DKYidslWesc6z6QK8dJ1A-RsB6x1s6-AMNxkr0VPXSMAhU9QQ9Vp2BQ3A_sPkyopd6Sqq9t_eui/w418-h523/Burnett%20Reservoir,%20by%20SVMuseum%20&%20History.jpg" width="418" /></a></div>Burnett Reservoir, source of water for Asheville, NC. Photo by Swannanoa Museum</div><div class="gmail_default"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_ZEkv5eMw8XLO2rjTZ3dZqcXA2BODGMKUCrAaZe1-vfdVCmnOJJTk5tkvXS-OD7WnpW8qT3RBdHzLB3UD7fxu5_sQ3GmmWA15oQYOGh0uGUS92QIctBsjNsTfmzyzfpVyIPVeqeVD7yBfLRqzcceZ-bfxxG0vE1RvWkzkCZNTklF31-eUdebn1Z_bSE0O/s720/Bald%20%20Eagle.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="498" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_ZEkv5eMw8XLO2rjTZ3dZqcXA2BODGMKUCrAaZe1-vfdVCmnOJJTk5tkvXS-OD7WnpW8qT3RBdHzLB3UD7fxu5_sQ3GmmWA15oQYOGh0uGUS92QIctBsjNsTfmzyzfpVyIPVeqeVD7yBfLRqzcceZ-bfxxG0vE1RvWkzkCZNTklF31-eUdebn1Z_bSE0O/w442-h640/Bald%20%20Eagle.jpg" width="442" /></a></div>Bald Eagle</div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpVcd2N19Xf7uVRZeRMQ2syd0eWc0prfVUPDI0AmnKS3VdV70WRjuhSZUu-paNJdwUAgw4pZuYaU9P1fTB7LG_wVSnEO_HuPPRAkX_oV1p7quX1fZ7wt5WNt6YJoLK1lo2Ja8clZ9SGs869H8Ep91gjRgJ1PftsTEbiwQ0_Z6A6m4bgk4vh_d_N1Q3jQPt/s11639/Russ%20&%20Tai%20Cumberland%20Island%20edited.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="8399" data-original-width="11639" height="365" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpVcd2N19Xf7uVRZeRMQ2syd0eWc0prfVUPDI0AmnKS3VdV70WRjuhSZUu-paNJdwUAgw4pZuYaU9P1fTB7LG_wVSnEO_HuPPRAkX_oV1p7quX1fZ7wt5WNt6YJoLK1lo2Ja8clZ9SGs869H8Ep91gjRgJ1PftsTEbiwQ0_Z6A6m4bgk4vh_d_N1Q3jQPt/w506-h365/Russ%20&%20Tai%20Cumberland%20Island%20edited.jpg" width="506" /></a></div><br /><div class="gmail_default">Boys racing on the beach, Cumberland Island, (1993-5?)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: large;"></div>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6834515962367699133.post-22405522829273356042024-03-17T03:00:00.008-04:002024-03-17T03:00:00.138-04:00When overwhelmed, the Americans of Conscience might help<p> The <u>good things</u> from<a href="https://americansofconscience.com/03-15-2024/?#gf_1224"> Americans of Conscience.</a></p><p>This list followed the special issue published 3.15.24...focusing upon "Support with Humanitarian Aid for people Facing Violence." </p><p>They list many different organizations from which to choose to give support in 15 different areas, as well as appreciation notes for three actions by the Biden Harris administration <span style="font-family: inherit;">and <span style="background-color: white; color: #383838;">Doctors Without Borders.</span></span></p><p>It is only focused upon the Middle East, I might add. So it is leaving out aid for Ukraine, and Sudan, and Haiti, and other areas where civilians are suffering from armed conflict not of their choosing.</p><p><u>A randomized list of Good Things:</u></p><ul style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #383838; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 10px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">The United Nations <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-uses-new-land-route-israel-reach-northern-gaza-2024-03-12/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">delivers enough food</a> for 25,000 people into northern Gaza.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">Jordan, Egypt, France, and the United Arab Emirates <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/02/27/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news#jordan-air-drop-gaza-france" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">airdrop meals and vital supplies</a> into Gaza.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">U.S. aircraft <a href="https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-gaza-airdrop-humanitarian-assistance-f8bc071193f89906abf21478bc70a084" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">airdrop meals</a> into Gaza in an emergency humanitarian aid operation.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">Negotiations toward a ceasefire <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us-asks-hamas-release-women-elderly-hostages-longer-ceasefire-2024-03-12/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">continue</a>.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">President Biden<span style="font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2024/02/14/memorandum-on-the-deferred-enforced-departure-for-certain-palestinians/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">issues an order</a> preventing the deportation of people from Palestine currently living in the U.S. due to “humanitarian conditions…deteriorating” in Gaza.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">The Biden-Harris administration <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/11/14/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-takes-action-to-address-alarming-rise-of-reported-antisemitic-and-islamophobic-events-at-schools-and-on-college-campuses/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">outlines actions to be taken across federal departments</a> to address the rise of antisemitic and Islamophobic incidents at schools and on college campuses.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">Dozens of U.S. city councils nationwide <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-city-councils-increasingly-call-israel-gaza-ceasefire-analysis-shows-2024-01-31/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">call for an Israel-Gaza ceasefire</a>.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">The U.S. <a href="https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2024/02/29/us-announces-first-gazan-aid-since-suspending-unrwa-donations/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">will build a temporary port</a> on Gaza’s Mediterranean coast, creating a route for humanitarian aid to reach Gazans.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Forbes</em> <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/aparnarae/2024/03/06/navigating-ramadan-fostering-understanding-and-support-at-work/?sh=783860513ab8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">publishes a guide</a> for employers on how to support Muslim employees observing Ramadan.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">Doctors Without Borders <a href="https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/our-response-israel-gaza-war" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">provides medical care in Gaza</a> in the midst of ongoing violence and among destroyed healthcare infrastructure.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">The Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Council of American Jewish Museums <a href="https://www.imls.gov/news/imls-and-council-american-jewish-museums-partner-address-antisemitism" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">hold the summit</a> “Museums Respond: Strategies for Countering Antisemitism and Hate” with the goal of informing museum programming across the country.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">The Committee to Protect Journalists <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/01/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-journalists-news-organizations.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">coordinates a global show of support</a> for journalists in Gaza, where at least 94 journalists have been killed since October 7th.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">Five advocacy groups supporting Israelis held hostage by Hamas <a href="https://www.jta.org/2024/02/28/israel/groups-working-to-support-israeli-hostages-and-their-families-awarded-2024-jewish-nobel" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">receive the 2024 Genesis Prize</a>, with the $1M award funding medical and psychological treatment for former hostages and their families.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">In an effort to atone for unfairly harsh punishments based on race, the Army <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/14/us-army-buffalo-soldiers-mutiny-1917-overturned-jim-crow" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">overturns the century-old convictions</a> of 110 Black soldiers charged with mutiny.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">The Energy Dept. <a href="https://www.energy.gov/articles/biden-harris-administration-announces-35-billion-largest-ever-investment-americas-electric" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">releases $3.46B in grants</a> for 58 projects across the country to strengthen electrical grid reliability. </li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">HUD <a href="https://www.hud.gov/press/press_releases_media_advisories/hud_no_23_239" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">helps update the homes of 1,500 low-income families</a> to be energy efficient using funding from the Inflation Reduction Act.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">IN: Students <a href="https://www.advocate.com/news/supreme-court-transgender-bathroom-case" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">can continue to use the school bathrooms</a> that best align with their gender identity as a related case will not be taken up by SCOTUS.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">MI <a href="https://www.epi.org/blog/data-show-anti-union-right-to-work-laws-damage-state-economies-as-michigans-repeal-takes-effect-new-hampshire-should-continue-to-reject-right-to-work-legislation/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">repeals their “right to work” law</a>, a policy that hindered collective bargaining by workers.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">The town of Neodesha, KS <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2023/11/20/free-tuition-to-kansas-town-grads/71653344007/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">is thriving</a> due to the availability of tuition-free college for high school graduates.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">North Dakota State University <a href="https://minnesotareformer.com/briefs/ndsu-creates-free-tuition-program-after-expressing-concern-over-minnesotas/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">will offer free tuition</a> for certain ND and MN students during the 2024-2025 school year.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">A coalition of solar companies and conservationists <a href="https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2023-10-11/column-solar-companies-and-environmentalists-say-theyre-ready-to-stop-fighting-theyd-better-be-boiling-point" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">determine a set of principles</a> to move forward with green energy projects while preserving landscapes and benefiting local communities.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">The digital library app Libby <a href="https://twitter.com/amivireads/status/1755357836232536521" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">features the Queer Liberation Library</a>, a free compilation of literature, information, and resources for the LGBTQ+ community.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">Farmworkers at Di Mare tomato farm <a href="https://ufw.org/victorydimare/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">win labor protections</a> under a new law they worked hard to get passed.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">Shipping companies worldwide <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/10/05/1200788439/wind-power-cargo-ships-carbon-emissions" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">collaborate in favor of climate-friendly high-tech sails</a>.</li></ul><div><span style="color: #383838; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Thanks Americans of Conscience</span></span></div>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6834515962367699133.post-43577857703868759172024-03-16T03:00:00.006-04:002024-03-16T03:00:00.145-04:00Gratitude - for where my food, my sustinance, comes from<p> How does our food get from farm to table, or even out of the fields?</p><p>Look at one artist's visions that celebrated the food handlers. <a href="https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/03/narsiso-martinez-from-these-hands/">HERE.</a> <i>Colassal </i>is an art-featuring newsletter which I receive free, though there are subscription versions available.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGxNn-Zfp7QDpUjzs9X9Az-cZkeW__zcVPT1vfnmCODD5SSryOOBEYoTNgZA4RtS4dVOo9Ow-I9qjcOY69RO0OTujztSAW8qrDgPK-YRn2XceU-3Zkp_8d3QRJUTJZS2cgs3N6-xsOot4Nm9PEPR8OMq9U-8LEv1CBJ31EwHdbbvVKR1M3ZeSpimOs3_H3/s1536/Easy-Grape-1536x1366.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="1536" height="459" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGxNn-Zfp7QDpUjzs9X9Az-cZkeW__zcVPT1vfnmCODD5SSryOOBEYoTNgZA4RtS4dVOo9Ow-I9qjcOY69RO0OTujztSAW8qrDgPK-YRn2XceU-3Zkp_8d3QRJUTJZS2cgs3N6-xsOot4Nm9PEPR8OMq9U-8LEv1CBJ31EwHdbbvVKR1M3ZeSpimOs3_H3/w515-h459/Easy-Grape-1536x1366.jpg" width="515" /></a></div><br /><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #141423; font-family: "Sentinel A", "Sentinel B", serif, Georgia; font-size: 20px;">[Nariso] Martinez’s solo exhibition </span><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #141423; font-family: "Sentinel A", "Sentinel B", serif, Georgia; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">From These Hands/De Estas Manos </em><span style="background-color: white; color: #141423; font-family: "Sentinel A", "Sentinel B", serif, Georgia; font-size: 20px;">at </span><a href="https://buffaloakg.org/" rel="noopener" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgba(252, 67, 73, 0.25); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #fc4349; font-family: "Sentinel A", "Sentinel B", serif, Georgia; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 3px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 250ms ease 0s;" target="_blank">Buffalo AKG Art Museum</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #141423; font-family: "Sentinel A", "Sentinel B", serif, Georgia; font-size: 20px;"> brings together pieces completed within the past few years, focusing on produce boxes as both collage components and as framing devices for striking portraits. He often portrays his subjects wearing baseball caps and scarves over their faces, which protect them from the elements.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #141423; font-family: "Sentinel A", "Sentinel B", serif, Georgia; font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #141423; font-family: "Sentinel A", "Sentinel B", serif, Georgia; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">When he was 20 years old, <a href="https://www.cjamesgallery.com/artists/narsiso-martinez" rel="noopener" style="border-bottom-color: rgba(252, 67, 73, 0.25); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #fc4349; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 3px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 250ms ease 0s;" target="_blank">Narsiso Martinez</a> immigrated to the U.S. from Oaxaca, Mexico, with a powerful resolve to learn English and pursue a university education. “I wanted to break the cycle,” he says. “In my family of six siblings, I wanted to be the difference and have a college degree before having my own family.”</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #141423; font-family: "Sentinel A", "Sentinel B", serif, Georgia; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">At 29, Martinez finished high school, and in 2012, he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts. And while he continued his education in pursuit of an MFA, he began to work seasonally in the apple orchards of eastern Washington state. Drawing from the visual language of produce brands and relationships with people he met on the farms, he developed vivid mixed-media works emphasizing the individuals who perform the labor necessary to fill grocery aisles, restaurants, and refrigerators around the country.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #141423; font-family: "Sentinel A", "Sentinel B", serif, Georgia; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #141423; font-family: "Sentinel A", "Sentinel B", serif, Georgia; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Today's quote:</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #141423; font-family: "Sentinel A", "Sentinel B", serif, Georgia; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><i style="background-color: #fdfaf5; color: #111111; font-family: times; font-size: x-large; text-align: -webkit-center;">Darker days are just as much a part of life as are the days graced with sunshine.</i></p>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6834515962367699133.post-3630015558381685402024-03-15T03:00:00.047-04:002024-03-15T03:00:00.132-04:00Just 4 years ago...I've been thinking about how it was just 4 years ago.<div>If you're a kid, it probably seems a lifetime ago.</div><div><br /></div><div>But for me, I feel that yesterday suddenly our world was turned upside down, millions of people were dying, and nobody had a cure. All the restaurants suddenly closed. All the retail outlets closed. Grocery store shelves were bare. Nobody who was in the entertainment industry had a job any more...at least live entertainment. You just didn't go where other people would also be inside with you.</div><div><br /></div><div>We suddenly wanted to eat outside on patios (when we first went back to restaurants.) Doors all had signs on them, masks were required.</div><div><br /></div><div>It was the COVID-19 pandemic.</div><div><br /></div><div>And so far, it's escaped TV shows. But believe me, at some time, there will be a show with the setting (medical perhaps) and the background of the early days of the pandemic.</div><div><br /></div><div>I just found a memory on Facebook, which they somehow cull through to give me just a few of the ones I posted...but this one was about how to deal with the virus when you caught it.</div><div><br /></div><div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: inherit;">Good advice from a nurse on Twitter if you should get the virus: </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: inherit;">I know we’re all tired of hearing/talking about it, but one thing I HAVEN’T really seen going around is advice for what happens if you DO get coronavirus (many of us will), only advice for how to try to AVOID it. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: inherit;">So as your friendly neighborhood RN, a wee thread:</span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: inherit;">Things you should *actually* buy ahead of time (Erm, not sure what the obsession with toilet paper is?): Kleenex, Acetaminophen (Tylenol) in 325 mg <a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a>tablets, Ibuprofen (Advil) in 200 mg tablets, Mucinex, Robitussin or DayQuil/NyQuil, whatever your cough medicine of choice is.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: inherit;">If you don’t have a humidifier, that would also be a good thing to get. (You can also just turn the shower on hot and sit in the bathroom breathing in the steam). Also a good time to make a big batch of your favorite soup to freeze and have on hand.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: inherit;">If you have a history of asthma and you have a prescription inhaler, make sure the one you have isn’t expired and refill it/get a new one if it is.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: inherit;">You basically just want to prepare as though you know you’re going to get a nasty respiratory bug like bronchitis or pneumonia. You just have the foresight to know it’s coming.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: inherit;">For symptom management, use the meds I mentioned. For a fever over 101, alternate Tylenol and Advil so you’re taking a dose of one or the other every 3 hours. Use both cough suppressants and expectorants (most cough meds have both). Drink a ton, hydrate hydrate. Rest lots.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: inherit;">You should not be leaving your house except to go to the doctor, and if you do, wear a mask (regular is fine, you don’t need an N95). You DO NOT NEED TO GO TO THE ER unless you are having trouble breathing or your fever is very high and unmanaged with meds.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: inherit;">90% of healthy adult cases thus far have been managed at home with basic rest/hydration/over-the-counter meds. We don’t want to clog the ERs unless you’re actually in distress. The hospital beds will be used for people who actively need oxygen/breathing treatments/IV fluids.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: inherit;">If you have a pre-existing lung condition (COPD, emphysema, lung cancer) or are on immunosuppressants, now is a great time to talk to your PCP or specialist about what they would like you to do if you get sick. They might have plans to get you admitted and bypass the ER entirely.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: inherit;">One major relief to you parents is that kids do VERY well with coronavirus— they usually bounce back in a few days, no one under 18 has died, and almost no kids have required hospitalization (unless they have a lung disease like CF). Just use pediatric dosing of the same meds.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: inherit;">(If you want to share, copy and paste.)</span></div></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">And (knock on wood) I've not yet had the virus. Incidentally, this nurse was wrong, as many kids did get very sick with COVID.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">I got to have a heart attack. Not until May 15, 2020. So the protocols were in place for COVID when I went through ER. But since I have a chronic cough with my COPD, it was confusing for them. For hours I was in isolation, because the hospital had run out of </span><span style="background-color: white;">COVID </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">testing supplies, and they would have to send the test out to a lab which might take a day for results. Then my Dr. said to get my test done immediately and it was negative. (I had no fevers, and just pain in my neck and shoulders as heart attack signs.) But of course my blood work kept showing something that they know indicates a heart attack. I depend upon labs...because we all know a heart attack in a woman presents differently than a man. No numb left arm, no sweaty clamy face, etc.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuV6nsRZgteg4mzPrVDWFhu8wp1tKRj66zoQNkH9G_DO-8NpG34P3E-nY8qIwfOcaR2I_aO52DQJ6Er0W_bDU3ub_7cNVHBorRji4Y717Pl0rqThcHiJX9_ZeOoOaxEP0R_UkPmUpFXv1-O7QfJFLUWDVqFdFikLTU4LQGfS3abOyxNxKsNvvGEawYonzt/s1000/IMG_0411.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="460" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuV6nsRZgteg4mzPrVDWFhu8wp1tKRj66zoQNkH9G_DO-8NpG34P3E-nY8qIwfOcaR2I_aO52DQJ6Er0W_bDU3ub_7cNVHBorRji4Y717Pl0rqThcHiJX9_ZeOoOaxEP0R_UkPmUpFXv1-O7QfJFLUWDVqFdFikLTU4LQGfS3abOyxNxKsNvvGEawYonzt/w460-h460/IMG_0411.JPG" width="460" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Anyway, 4 days later I went home with a stent on my heart and lots of new meds to take, most for the rest of my life. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">But I was right there with these front line care teams. I got to see them at work, seriously overworked, since there were so many patients coming into hospitals. Did they have enough beds? I got shuffled around a few times...so they were working on that.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">And I remember just 4 years ago, Millions of People Died from COVID in the pandemic.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Millions of first responders worked above and beyond, as well as care teams in medicine.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I won't forget.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">And here are some good links from PBS' NOVA giving some not-so-current information about the pandemic.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href=" https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/covid-19-climate-change/">Covid and Climate Change</a> for breathing- <span style="font-family: inherit;">by </span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">Drew Lanham, ornothologist and </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">conservationist</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> in 2021</span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1a1a1a; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/lingering-symptoms-covid-unprecedented/">Lingering Symptoms from COVID-19 are “Unprecedented”</a> published</span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> 2021</span></span></p><div dir="auto">I think I'm going to go looking elsewhere for more recent findings. I'm quite sure the medical professionals have been studying this virus for the whole 4 years it's been around.</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">Today's quote:</div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><table style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: #5d5651; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-left: 71.7756px; padding-right: 71.7756px; text-align: center;"><h1 style="color: #313335; display: inline-block; font-family: Lora, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 30px; margin: 4px 0px 12px;">It’s precisely the people who are considered the least “likely” leaders who end up inspiring others the most. Everyday people and everyday acts of courage eventually change everything.</h1></td></tr><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;" valign="top"><p style="color: #767676; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 32px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">AI-JEN POO</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6834515962367699133.post-37320843166251012362024-03-14T03:00:00.001-04:002024-03-14T08:47:09.468-04:00Civil Rights - some history<p><br /></p><p>I watched the TV news in 1965. I didn't want to think this was actually happening in the US. I also never learned all these details about the marches. Only bits and pieces. Maybe these are more bits and pieces, and since there were thousands involved, maybe there will still be thousands of pieces to learn about.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3ly3CwxpXqPbNtS9EQeVthRH9DNreOfIskyLDAnFgA687Y421Vi5CXvvFIuAVFDKxy5fj4ArlxJW1FHaVKUw-C59XHkKPg-d0I7Wwi3pqS-qcpl3bC-vT9PbUNsLwg5h6sFyi3Za2ytKmz1LH5QEhV4uQ9Il5JENa6XZ_2jprlTh-yHtig5LCGMn2HrnR/s3716/EdmundPettusBridge-5c53b4cfc9e77c0001a4049b-2060743365.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2456" data-original-width="3716" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3ly3CwxpXqPbNtS9EQeVthRH9DNreOfIskyLDAnFgA687Y421Vi5CXvvFIuAVFDKxy5fj4ArlxJW1FHaVKUw-C59XHkKPg-d0I7Wwi3pqS-qcpl3bC-vT9PbUNsLwg5h6sFyi3Za2ytKmz1LH5QEhV4uQ9Il5JENa6XZ_2jprlTh-yHtig5LCGMn2HrnR/w598-h394/EdmundPettusBridge-5c53b4cfc9e77c0001a4049b-2060743365.jpg" width="598" /></span></a></p><p>from:</p><p>Letters from an American 3.7.24 by Heather Cox Richardson, historian</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">B<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">lack Americans outnumbered white Americans among the 29,500 people who lived in Selma, Alabama, in the 1960s, but the city’s voting rolls were 99% white. So, in 1963, Black organizers in the Dallas County Voters League launched a drive to get Black voters in Selma registered. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a prominent civil rights organization, joined them.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In 1964, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, but the measure did not adequately address the problem of voter suppression. In Selma a judge had stopped the voter registration protests by issuing an injunction prohibiting public gatherings of more than two people.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">To call attention to the crisis in her city, Amelia Boynton, who was a part of the Dallas County Voters League but who, in this case, was acting with a group of local activists, traveled to Birmingham to invite Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., to the city. King had become a household name after the 1963 March on Washington where he delivered the “I Have a Dream” speech, and his presence would bring national attention to Selma’s struggle.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">King and other prominent members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference arrived in January to push the voter registration drive. For seven weeks, Black residents tried to register to vote. County Sheriff James Clark arrested almost 2,000 of them for a variety of charges, including contempt of court and parading without a permit. A federal court ordered Clark not to interfere with orderly registration, so he forced Black applicants to stand in line for hours before taking a “literacy” test. Not a single person passed. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Then on February 18, white police officers, including local police, sheriff’s deputies, and Alabama state troopers, beat and shot an unarmed 26-year-old, Jimmie Lee Jackson, who was marching for voting rights at a demonstration in his hometown of Marion, Alabama, about 25 miles northwest of Selma. Jackson had run into a restaurant for shelter along with his mother when the police started rioting, but they chased him and shot him in the restaurant’s kitchen.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Jackson died eight days later, on February 26. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The leaders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Selma decided to defuse the community’s anger by planning a long march—54 miles—from Selma to the state capitol at Montgomery to draw attention to the murder and voter suppression. Expecting violence, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee voted not to participate, but its chair, John Lewis, asked their permission to go along on his own. They agreed.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On March 7, 1965, the marchers set out. As they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge, named for a Confederate brigadier general, Grand Dragon of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan, and U.S. senator who stood against Black rights, state troopers and other law enforcement officers met the unarmed marchers with billy clubs, bullwhips, and tear gas. They fractured John Lewis’s skull and beat Amelia Boynton unconscious. A newspaper photograph of the 54-year-old Boynton, seemingly dead in the arms of another marcher, illustrated the depravity of those determined to stop Black voting.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Images of “Bloody Sunday” on the national news mesmerized the nation, and supporters began to converge on Selma. King, who had been in Atlanta when the marchers first set off, returned to the fray.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Two days later, the marchers set out again. Once again, the troopers and police met them at the end of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, but this time, King led the marchers in prayer and then took them back to Selma. That night, a white mob beat to death a Unitarian Universalist minister, James Reeb, who had come from Massachusetts to join the marchers.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On March 15, President Lyndon B. Johnson addressed a nationally televised joint session of Congress to ask for the passage of a national voting rights act. “Their cause must be our cause too,” he said. “[A]ll of us…must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. And we shall overcome.” Two days later, he submitted to Congress proposed voting rights legislation.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The marchers remained determined to complete their trip to Montgomery, and when Alabama’s governor, George Wallace, refused to protect them, President Johnson stepped in. When the marchers set off for a third time on March 21, 1,900 members of the nationalized Alabama National Guard, FBI agents, and federal marshals protected them. Covering about ten miles a day, they camped in the yards of well-wishers until they arrived at the Alabama State Capitol on March 25. Their ranks had grown as they walked until they numbered about 25,000 people.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On the steps of the capitol, speaking under a Confederate flag, Dr. King said: “The end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience. And that will be a day not of the white man, not of the black man. That will be the day of man as man.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">That night, Viola Liuzzo, a 39-year-old mother of five who had arrived from Michigan to help after Bloody Sunday, was murdered by four Ku Klux Klan members who tailed her as she ferried demonstrators out of the city.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On August 6, Dr. King and Mrs. Boynton were guests of honor as President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Recalling “the outrage of Selma,” Johnson said: "This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies."</span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Voting Rights Act authorized federal supervision of voter registration in districts where African Americans were historically underrepresented. Johnson promised that the government would strike down “regulations, or laws, or tests to deny the right to vote.” He called the right to vote “the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men,” and pledged that “we will not delay, or we will not hesitate, or we will not turn aside until Americans of every race and color and origin in this country have the same right as all others to share in the process of democracy.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As recently as 2006, Congress reauthorized the Voting Rights Act by a bipartisan vote. By 2008 there was very little difference in voter participation between white Americans and Americans of color. But then, in 2013, the Supreme Court’s <em>Shelby County v. Holder</em> decision got rid of the part of the Voting Rights Act that required jurisdictions with a history of racial discrimination in voting to get approval from the federal government before changing their voting rules. This requirement was known as “preclearance.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The <em>Shelby County v. Holder</em> decision opened the door, once again, for voter suppression. Since then, states have made it harder to vote; in 2023, at least 14 states enacted 17 restrictive voting laws. A recent study by the Brennan Center of nearly a billion vote records over 14 years shows that the racial voting cap is growing almost twice as fast in places that used to be covered by the preclearance requirement. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Democrats have tried since 2021 to pass a voting rights act but have been stymied by Republicans, who oppose such protections. Last September, on National Voter Registration Day, House Democrats reintroduced a voting rights act, now named the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act after the man who went on from his days in the Civil Rights Movement to serve 17 terms as a representative from Georgia, bearing the scars of March 7, 1965, until he died on July 17, 2020. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On March 1, 2024, 51 Democratic senators introduced the measure in the Senate. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Speaking in Selma last Sunday at the commemoration of the 59th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, Vice President Kamala Harris shared that the first thing she sees on walking into her office is a “large framed photograph taken on Bloody Sunday depicting an injured Amelia Boynton receiving care at the foot of [the Edmund Pettus] bridge.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“[F]or me,” she said, “it is a daily reminder of the struggle, of the sacrifice, and of how much we owe to those who gave so much before us.” </span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“History is a relay race,” she said. “Generations before us carried the baton. And now, they have passed it to us.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">—----------</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Notes:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/1d19aa94-6a10-418c-9e6d-6f62e49ba69b?j%3DeyJ1IjoiM3JzbDkifQ.FB3WMOPOE1Ha1JKuOMeOdTU5jtnUdLXBelJgbryTqrk&source=gmail&ust=1709887997025000&usg=AOvVaw16nF1CqyVooLTKB_m8Nb_U" href="https://substack.com/redirect/1d19aa94-6a10-418c-9e6d-6f62e49ba69b?j=eyJ1IjoiM3JzbDkifQ.FB3WMOPOE1Ha1JKuOMeOdTU5jtnUdLXBelJgbryTqrk" rel="" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">https://www2.census.gov/prod2/<wbr></wbr>decennial/documents/<wbr></wbr>37721510v1p2.pdf</span></a></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/16483b38-1ea5-49ea-b067-b51b696368c5?j%3DeyJ1IjoiM3JzbDkifQ.FB3WMOPOE1Ha1JKuOMeOdTU5jtnUdLXBelJgbryTqrk&source=gmail&ust=1709887997025000&usg=AOvVaw2l8TDfKP4SbAnB8frl7LMk" href="https://substack.com/redirect/16483b38-1ea5-49ea-b067-b51b696368c5?j=eyJ1IjoiM3JzbDkifQ.FB3WMOPOE1Ha1JKuOMeOdTU5jtnUdLXBelJgbryTqrk" rel="" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">https://millercenter.org/the-<wbr></wbr>presidency/presidential-<wbr></wbr>speeches/august-6-1965-<wbr></wbr>remarks-signing-voting-rights-<wbr></wbr>act</span></a></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/e49fa583-0b24-4d98-bb29-322690d0c56a?j%3DeyJ1IjoiM3JzbDkifQ.FB3WMOPOE1Ha1JKuOMeOdTU5jtnUdLXBelJgbryTqrk&source=gmail&ust=1709887997025000&usg=AOvVaw10sDRx-Lg7VBLTS8O-vwNI" href="https://substack.com/redirect/e49fa583-0b24-4d98-bb29-322690d0c56a?j=eyJ1IjoiM3JzbDkifQ.FB3WMOPOE1Ha1JKuOMeOdTU5jtnUdLXBelJgbryTqrk" rel="" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">https://kinginstitute.<wbr></wbr>stanford.edu/encyclopedia/<wbr></wbr>selma-montgomery-march</span></a></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/e3fc8318-20a7-4ce5-8690-a92a4d355bfd?j%3DeyJ1IjoiM3JzbDkifQ.FB3WMOPOE1Ha1JKuOMeOdTU5jtnUdLXBelJgbryTqrk&source=gmail&ust=1709887997026000&usg=AOvVaw0a1iSiIVmEDzSCdclYNnHR" href="https://substack.com/redirect/e3fc8318-20a7-4ce5-8690-a92a4d355bfd?j=eyJ1IjoiM3JzbDkifQ.FB3WMOPOE1Ha1JKuOMeOdTU5jtnUdLXBelJgbryTqrk" rel="" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">https://www.theguardian.com/<wbr></wbr>us-news/2021/feb/25/fight-to-<wbr></wbr>vote-newsletter-voting-rights-<wbr></wbr>act</span></a></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/462815c1-9ffc-4ad9-9d84-edfc008d7571?j%3DeyJ1IjoiM3JzbDkifQ.FB3WMOPOE1Ha1JKuOMeOdTU5jtnUdLXBelJgbryTqrk&source=gmail&ust=1709887997026000&usg=AOvVaw0nQADuvj3XLoaYE5u-psuj" href="https://substack.com/redirect/462815c1-9ffc-4ad9-9d84-edfc008d7571?j=eyJ1IjoiM3JzbDkifQ.FB3WMOPOE1Ha1JKuOMeOdTU5jtnUdLXBelJgbryTqrk" rel="" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; 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line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/48dc5414-b2cd-4221-aff8-c7e6d64c2cb7?j%3DeyJ1IjoiM3JzbDkifQ.FB3WMOPOE1Ha1JKuOMeOdTU5jtnUdLXBelJgbryTqrk&source=gmail&ust=1709887997026000&usg=AOvVaw0ohOGF-Fawj6d80TiYo2xs" href="https://substack.com/redirect/48dc5414-b2cd-4221-aff8-c7e6d64c2cb7?j=eyJ1IjoiM3JzbDkifQ.FB3WMOPOE1Ha1JKuOMeOdTU5jtnUdLXBelJgbryTqrk" rel="" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">https://www.brennancenter.org/<wbr></wbr>our-work/research-reports/<wbr></wbr>voting-laws-roundup-2023-<wbr></wbr>review</span></a></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/3c30b412-e0ed-45ee-bdb7-99ac1e4f80af?j%3DeyJ1IjoiM3JzbDkifQ.FB3WMOPOE1Ha1JKuOMeOdTU5jtnUdLXBelJgbryTqrk&source=gmail&ust=1709887997026000&usg=AOvVaw2ITwUQE_P78PYnA_sVLUOE" href="https://substack.com/redirect/3c30b412-e0ed-45ee-bdb7-99ac1e4f80af?j=eyJ1IjoiM3JzbDkifQ.FB3WMOPOE1Ha1JKuOMeOdTU5jtnUdLXBelJgbryTqrk" rel="" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; 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margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/70944cea-84c8-41c5-a6b1-08e283d25774?j%3DeyJ1IjoiM3JzbDkifQ.FB3WMOPOE1Ha1JKuOMeOdTU5jtnUdLXBelJgbryTqrk&source=gmail&ust=1709887997026000&usg=AOvVaw3Rbz9TciWBJ3Xfo9-FehfQ" href="https://substack.com/redirect/70944cea-84c8-41c5-a6b1-08e283d25774?j=eyJ1IjoiM3JzbDkifQ.FB3WMOPOE1Ha1JKuOMeOdTU5jtnUdLXBelJgbryTqrk" rel="" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">https://www.warnock.senate.<wbr></wbr>gov/newsroom/press-releases/<wbr></wbr>senator-reverend-warnock-<wbr></wbr>colleagues-reintroduce-john-r-<wbr></wbr>lewis-voting-rights-<wbr></wbr>advancement-act/</span></a></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/19b42b3c-82df-4f54-b577-5ee4e3440549?j%3DeyJ1IjoiM3JzbDkifQ.FB3WMOPOE1Ha1JKuOMeOdTU5jtnUdLXBelJgbryTqrk&source=gmail&ust=1709887997026000&usg=AOvVaw2-Lswr6SK3sP4M_mbG633L" href="https://substack.com/redirect/19b42b3c-82df-4f54-b577-5ee4e3440549?j=eyJ1IjoiM3JzbDkifQ.FB3WMOPOE1Ha1JKuOMeOdTU5jtnUdLXBelJgbryTqrk" rel="" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.whitehouse.gov/<wbr></wbr>briefing-room/speeches-<wbr></wbr>remarks/2024/03/03/remarks-by-<wbr></wbr>vice-president-harris-<wbr></wbr>commemorating-the-59th-<wbr></wbr>anniversary-of-bloody-sunday-<wbr></wbr>selma-al</span>/</span></a></p></blockquote>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6834515962367699133.post-22841488205164620762024-03-13T03:00:00.001-04:002024-03-13T03:00:00.164-04:00Less than six degrees of separation<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge-cCgrPtIghsTjNjecpIOYjT3-TYPY-dlpc4i8aamC1KdfZtlWMDzPpiFfbUv_rERLlzxi9_Q-gAZpeNZCRh00bSAfCIPNC6I3UaQpmph_Xt-wo6ojyvQBHOba6PMEJBKx-8hsoZQc9E998zIIae0vCuK1C2HWva-PwihhmHPb311mjoXYla8oZN1a6CE/s700/Palestinian-refugees_1_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="466" data-original-width="700" height="351" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge-cCgrPtIghsTjNjecpIOYjT3-TYPY-dlpc4i8aamC1KdfZtlWMDzPpiFfbUv_rERLlzxi9_Q-gAZpeNZCRh00bSAfCIPNC6I3UaQpmph_Xt-wo6ojyvQBHOba6PMEJBKx-8hsoZQc9E998zIIae0vCuK1C2HWva-PwihhmHPb311mjoXYla8oZN1a6CE/w527-h351/Palestinian-refugees_1_1.jpg" width="527" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>A friend from church's daughter, they are numbers 1 and 2.</p><p>The daughter's friend, number 3, gave her information about the need for help for a family in Gaza who were related to her.</p><p>Her (daughter's friend's) uncle in the Netherlands (number 4) wrote about his family who were trapped in Gaza (not sure their relationships but at least 4-6 people) thus number 5 in our relationships.</p><p>How did I close the gap? They set up a go-fund me, which I contributed just a small amount to. But because of that I was sent details of how the funds were used.</p><p>The family in Gaza helped feed 20 other families with the funds. They had hopes of going to Egypt, and were waiting for transportation. I think the funding was helping toward this also. Just a few days ago we received word the family had arrived in Egypt. </p><p>So I was only 5 degrees of separation from that family. Those hungry people, who have had their lives devastated by this awful war....I cannot look at the news any more. I cannot see the smiling politicians barbing at each other or smiling about the wonderful benefits they promise, which are all lies.</p><p>I've spent the last 2 years hoping the Ukraine could make a final stand and Russia would give up.</p><p>The stupid idiots in Congress who were elected by all kinds of other idiots are sitting on the money that could help Ukrainians. Lives are being lost there every day.</p><p>Refugees from other armed conflicts all over the globe are also suffering from lack of food, clean water and medical care.</p><p>I'm so grateful to live my comfortable life. Today I helped a neighbor who is in an electric wheelchair by bringing her groceries home from the store, which was not planned in advance. She had also come up short when checking out, so I loaned her enough for the toilet paper, but she was not buying the cat food or paper towels. When I loaded the trunk with her things, another bagger brought out the cat food and paper towels, which someone else in line had paid for. </p><p>She rides her electric chair so fast it's quite dangerous. I guess it has brakes of some kind. But she goes along the street where there are no sidewalks, and heaven help a car that doesn't notice her.</p><p>So I unloaded everything into my tote cart and left it outside my door, until she got home. Since there were frozen things I didn't want to leave them in the sun in my car. She appeared about 5 minutes after me, and I took the things in her apartment, right across the courtyard from me. </p><p>Yes, I thought, charity does begin at home.</p><p>And now I know that I'm only 5 degrees separated from a family that fled their home in Gaza to Egypt.</p><p><br /></p><p>Today's quote:</p><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Marilyn Monroe </div>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6834515962367699133.post-70753660239031048102024-03-12T03:00:00.001-04:002024-03-12T03:00:00.148-04:00Micro-plastics in humans - the whole article<h1 class="text-h2 sm:text-h1 font-source-sans font-semibold text-legibility block mb-4" style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); 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--tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19px;"><span class="inline-block mr-1 text-gray-500 text-body-sm sm:text-body-md" style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6b7280; display: inline-block; line-height: 19px; margin-right: 0.25rem;">By</span><a class="text-blue inline" href="https://www.sciencealert.com/clare-watson" style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); 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--tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; line-height: 24px; text-transform: uppercase;">CLARE WATSON</span></a> <a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/plastic-found-inside-more-than-50-of-plaques-from-clogged-arteries">Original article here.</a></div></div><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;">Plastics are now everywhere, with tiny fragments found in</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"> </span><a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/microplastics-are-not-just-in-our-blood-they-re-in-our-lungs-too" style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.4px; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 0.8rem; text-decoration: inherit;">several major organs</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;">of the human body,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"> </span><a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/microplastics-found-in-every-human-placenta-tested-study-finds" style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.4px; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 0.8rem; text-decoration: inherit;">including the placenta</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;">.</span></p><p style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.4px; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 0.8rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Given how easily the microscopic particles infiltrate our tissues, it's vital that we learn exactly what <a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/toxicologists-urge-for-research-into-the-unknown-health-risks-of-microplastic" style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 0.8rem; text-decoration: inherit;">kinds of risks</a> they could pose to our health.</p><p style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); 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font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.4px; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 0.8rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Researchers have been busy <a href="https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/envhealth.3c00052" style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 0.8rem; text-decoration: inherit;">studying the effects</a> of microplastics <a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/microplastics-may-pose-a-serious-danger-to-the-intestine" style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 0.8rem; text-decoration: inherit;">in mini-replicas of organs</a>, <a href="https://www.sciencenews.org/article/microplastics-human-bodies-health-risks" style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); 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However, the concentrations of microplastics used in those studies might not reflect people's real-world exposure, and few studies have been done in humans.</p><div class="ad-slot--container ad-slot--container-content ad-slot--container-content-2 Purch_Y_C_0_2-container" style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); 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--tw-invert: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.4px; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 0.8rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Now, a small study in Italy has found shards of microplastics in fatty deposits surgically removed from patients who had an operation to open up their <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carotid_artery_stenosis" style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-border-opacity: 1; 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--tw-invert: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.4px; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 0.8rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Removing <a href="https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/atherosclerosis" style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); 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border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 0.8rem; text-decoration: inherit;">carotid endarterectomy</a> reduces the risk of future strokes.</p><div class="ad-slot--container ad-slot--container-content ad-slot--container-content-4 Purch_Y_C_0_4-container" style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); 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--tw-invert: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.4px; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 0.8rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The team behind this new study, led by Raffaele Marfella, a medical researcher at the University of Campania in Naples, wondered how the risk of stroke – as well as heart attacks and death – compared between patients who had microplastics in their plaques and those who did not.</p><div class="ad-slot--container ad-slot--container-content ad-slot--container-content-5 Purch_Y_C_0_5-container" style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); 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font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.4px; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 0.8rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyvinyl_chloride" style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 0.8rem; text-decoration: inherit;">PVC</a> comes in both rigid and flexible forms, and is used to make water pipes, plastic bottles, flooring, and packaging. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyethylene" style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 0.8rem; text-decoration: inherit;">Polyethylene</a> is the most <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1700782" style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 0.8rem; text-decoration: inherit;">commonly produced plastic</a>, used for plastic bags, films, and bottles, too.</p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;">With microplastics previously found</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"> </span><a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/four-out-of-five-people-tested-were-found-with-plastic-floating-in-their-blood" style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.4px; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 0.8rem; text-decoration: inherit;">coursing through people's bloodstream</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;">, the researchers were reasonably concerned about heart health. Lab-based studies</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"> </span><a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2022.107662" style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); 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--tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 0.8rem; text-decoration: inherit;">occupational-exposure studies</a> [also] suggest an increased risk of cardiovascular disease among persons who are exposed to plastics-related pollution, including polyvinyl chloride, than that seen in the general population," Marfella and colleagues <a href="https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa2309822" style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); 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font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.4px; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 0.8rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The amount of microplastics, and even smaller particles called nanoplastics, was measured using a technique called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrolysis%E2%80%93gas_chromatography%E2%80%93mass_spectrometry" style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 0.8rem; text-decoration: inherit;">pyrolysis–gas chromatography–mass spectrometry</a>, and their presence confirmed using another method, stable isotopes analysis, which can distinguish between the carbon of human tissues and that of plastics made from petrochemicals.</p><div class="ad-slot--container ad-slot--container-content ad-slot--container-content-11 Purch_Y_C_0_11-container" style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); 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font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.4px; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 0.8rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Microplastics were also visible under powerful microscopes: The researchers observed plastic fragments with jagged edges inside immune cells called macrophages, and within the fatty plaques. Examining the tissue samples, the team also found higher levels of inflammatory markers in patients with microplastics in their plaques.</p><figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-121072" class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_121072" style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.4px; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px auto 0.8rem; width: 642px;"><img alt="Panel of two black and white images showing jagged plastic particles, marked with arrows, in tissue sections, viewed under a microscope." class="wp-image-121072 size-medium" decoding="async" height="297" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2024/03/PlasticsInPlaquesUnderMicroscope-642x297.png" srcset="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2024/03/PlasticsInPlaquesUnderMicroscope-642x297.png 642w, https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2024/03/PlasticsInPlaquesUnderMicroscope-898x415.png 898w, https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2024/03/PlasticsInPlaquesUnderMicroscope-768x355.png 768w, https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2024/03/PlasticsInPlaquesUnderMicroscope-600x277.png 600w, https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2024/03/PlasticsInPlaquesUnderMicroscope.png 913w" style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 642.003px;" width="642" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-121072" style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(107,114,128,var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0.8rem; min-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 0.1rem; padding-top: 0.1rem; width: 642.003px;">Jagged plastic particles were seen inside macrophages and deposits of fatty tissue, removed from clogged arteries. (<a href="https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa2309822" style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit;">Marfella et al., <em style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box;">NEJM</em>, 2024</a>)</figcaption></figure><p style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.4px; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 0.8rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Bear in mind, however, that an observational study like this can't definitively conclude that microplastics are causing the downstream heart effects; only that there is an association. The study did not consider <a href="https://www.hri.org.au/health/learn/risk-factors/risk-factors-for-cardiovascular-disease" style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 0.8rem; text-decoration: inherit;">other risk factors for cardiovascular disease</a>, such as smoking, physical inactivity, and <a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/tiny-particles-in-the-air-may-trigger-sudden-heart-attacks-study-suggests" style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 0.8rem; text-decoration: inherit;">air pollution</a>.</p><p style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.4px; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 0.8rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">"Although we do not know what other exposures may have contributed to the adverse outcomes among patients in this study, the finding of microplastics and nanoplastics in plaque tissue is itself a breakthrough discovery that raises a series of urgent questions," such as how to reduce exposure, writes pediatrician, public health physician and epidemiologist Philip J. Landrigan, of Boston College, <a href="https://www.nejm.org/media/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2400683" style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); 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--tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin: auto;"></div></div></div><p style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.4px; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 0.8rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Plastic production has <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1700782" style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); 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line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 0.8rem; text-decoration: inherit;">exploded in the past two decades</a>, only a fraction of which has been recycled, and yet rates of cardiovascular disease have been <a href="https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.115.015293" style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 0.8rem; text-decoration: inherit;">falling in some parts of the world</a>, so more research is needed to understand the link between the two.</p><p style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.4px; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 0.8rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The study has been published in the <em style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 0.8rem;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa2309822" style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-color: rgba(229,231,235,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit;">New England Journal of Medicine</a>.</em></p>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6834515962367699133.post-37104672466382238992024-03-11T03:00:00.002-04:002024-03-11T03:00:00.133-04:00Sharing some options <p> We have choices in our lives, whether to carry that cloth bag for our groceries, to say no to the plastics that are all available to us.</p><p>I've found some like-minded people are interested in this effort, to at least reduce the amount of plastic in our lives...for our own health as well as that of the planet.</p><p>Thanks to fellow blogger who gave me this link, a bit of research is now being done about the intake of micro-plastics and our health. We intuitively knew this was not a good thing. (I'll post the article tomorrow for those who can't go to the link.)</p><p> <span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; text-align: justify;">https://www.sciencealert.com/plastic-found-inside-more-than-50-of-plaques-from-clogged-arteries</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here's another friend's list of companies trying to work with non-plastic products and shipping containers!</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But it always needs our help updating it...</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Ethical Companies and
Products List: </span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Some Alternatives to Plastic <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>We’re looking for more
suppliers to add to this list and are considering creating a buyer’s collaborative
in the effort to avoid the use of plastic as much as possible. Please send
names of any other companies that you order from, or know of, to Bette at </span><a href="mailto:blbates@mac.com"><span>blbates@mac.com</span></a><span> Please share this draft list with others who may be
interested, or have suggestions. It will continue to be a work in progress as
we learn more. <o:p style="font-size: 11pt;"></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><u><span>ZERO Plastic in
products and shipping</span></u></b><b><span>:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Bestowed Essentials </span></b><span>– Eco-friendly home and body products, a
neurodivergent-female-veteran-owned company in Oregon. Plastic-free shipping. </span><a href="http://bestowedessentials.com/"><span>bestowedessentials.com</span></a><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Brush with Bamboo</span></b><span> – Toothbrushes with biobased, castor oil bristles and
silk dental floss. Soft bristles and compostable. Plastic-free shipping. info@cleanplaneterra.com
909.265.4326 </span><a href="http://brushwithbamboo.com/"><span>brushwithbamboo.com</span></a><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Dental Lace</span></b><span> – Eco-friendly oral care, silk and plant-based floss,
refill floss and glass containers, toothpaste tablets, plastic-free shipping. Based
in Maine. </span><a href="http://dentallace.com/"><span>dentallace.com</span></a><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Divine Chocolate</span></b><span>, a B Corp company, plastic-free wrapping, first
farmer-owned fairtrade chocolate product. Ghana, does not use palm oil. 855.972.0527 </span><a href="http://divinechocolate.com/"><span>divinechocolate.com
</span></a><span> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Eco Girl Shop</span></b><span> – Wide range of products, plastic-free shipping, woman-owned,
based in Massachusetts<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>email: customerservice@ecogirlshop.com 413.345.6381 </span><a href="http://ecogirlshop.com/"><span>ecogirlshop.com
</span></a><span> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>French Broad Food Co-op – </span></b><span>Local and anyone can shop here. You can also join as a
member. Member-owned since 1976. They have a lot of unpackaged produce and many
bulk items. You can bring your own containers, and they have paper and
cellophane bags. They also carry plastic products.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>90 Biltmore Ave. Asheville,
NC 828.255.7650 </span><a href="https://d.docs.live.net/34c8d078bf1e68bb/Documents/Downloads/frenchbroadfood.coop"><span>frenchbroadfood.coop
</span></a><span> <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>If You Care</span></b><span> – No paraffin, petroleum products or toxic coatings on
paper snack and sandwich bags, they are home compostable, recycled box, FSC
certified paper products. Made in Sweden, importer is Source Atlantique,
Englewood Cliffs, NJ 833.642.2180 </span><a href="http://www.ifyoucare.com/"><span>www.ifyoucare.com</span></a><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Life without Plastic </span></b><span>– Cotton bags, stainless steel utensils and take-out containers
etc. Ships without plastic packaging. B Corp. Canada and US. Email: </span><a href="mailto:info@lifewithoutplastic.com"><span>info@lifewithoutplastic.com</span></a><span> 888.898.0369
Lifewithoutplastic.com <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Maggie’s Organics</span></b><span> – Organic cotton and wool clothing and socks, some are
made in NC, and some in India by union workers, fair trade. Still plastic for
shipping sometimes, but you can request no plastic shipping –usually they will
do that. 800.609.8593 </span><a href="http://maggiesorganics.com/"><span>maggiesorganics.com
</span></a><span> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Not!ce Hair Company </span></b><span>(formerly Unwrapped Life) – Shampoo bars and
conditioner, plastic free shipping <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://noticehairco.com/"><span>noticehairco.com</span></a><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Package Free </span></b><span>– Wide range of products, shampoo and conditioner
bars, cleaning and stainless products shipped plastic free, NYC based. </span><a href="http://packagefreeshop.com/"><span>packagefreeshop.com</span></a><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>To the
Brim</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span> </span></span><span>– Local refillery, BYO bottles to refill with bath, body
and home cleaning products<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>145
Charlotte Hwy (74) </span><span> </span><a href="mailto:brim@gmail.com"><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: text1;">brim@gmail.com</span></a><span> 828.552.3332 </span><a href="http://tothebrimrefill.com/"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">tothebrimrefill.com </span></a><span> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Sow True Seeds </span></b><span>–<b> </b>Local open-source seed company. 243 Haywood
R. Asheville, NC 828.254.0708<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://sowtrueseed.com/"><span>sowtrueseed.com</span></a><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Who Gives a Crap</span></b><span> –Recycled toilet paper, bamboo, tissues and paper
towels. No inks, dyes or plastic. Ships plastic free. B Corp company. Send love
letters to: 8605 Santa Monica Blvd. Suite 62559 W. Hollywood, CA 90069 </span><a href="http://whogivesacrap.org/"><span>whogivesacrap.org</span></a><span> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Wisdom Supply</span></b><span> – Zero plastic planners, notebooks, recyclable and
repairable 3-ring binders. Non-plastic pens and pencils. No plastic in products
or shipping. B Corp company based in CA.</span>
<span>info@wisdom supply.com <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://wisdomsupply.com/"><span>wisdomsupply.com </span></a><span> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Zefiro</span></b><span> – Non-plastic kitchen, cleaning supplies, personal
care, and pets. Chicago based. </span><a href="mailto:carley@zefirowaste.com"><span>zefirowaste.com</span></a><span> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-family: inherit;">LESS Plastic in
products and/or shipping: <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Country
Trading Company</span></b><span> – Stainless yogurt
maker. Making yogurt saves buying so many plastic yogurt containers and it’s
easy with this thermos-like yogurt maker. New Zealand based, sells in US. 484.512.9843
</span><a href="mailto:hello@countrytradingco.com"><span>hello@countrytradingco.com</span></a><span> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Dolphin Blue</span></b><span> – B corp. Wide range of products and information. An
online green general store, but with lots of plastic products also. :( Richardson, TX</span> <span>800.932.7715 </span><a href="http://dolphinblue.com/"><span>dolphinblue.com</span></a><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Dropps </span></b><span>– Laundry, dish detergent, brushes and household
cleaning products. Pods use PVA or PVOH – polyvinyl alcohol, but is a lot less
plastic than a bottle of detergent. </span><a href="http://info@dropps.com/"><span>info@dropps.com</span></a><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Eartheasy</span></b><span> – Garden supplies, home supplies, gifts, gardening
and composting advice. Victoria, BC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>888-451-6752 </span><a href="http://eartheasy.com/"><span>eartheasy.com</span></a><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Elevate Packaging</span></b><span> –Compostable stickers and cellophane bags, also poly
products, plant-based plastic, or PLA. Not sure if they use plastic-free
shipping. 773.276.4554 </span><a href="http://elevatepackaging.com/products"><span>elevatepackaging.com/products</span></a><span> <span class="MsoHyperlink"><span color="windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Gardener’s Supply</span></b><span> <b>Company</b> – B Corp, 100% employee owned,
gardening supplies, they have plastic products also, and am not sure yet whether
you can request no-plastic shipping<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>128 Intervale Road,
Burlington, Vermont 1.888.833.1412 </span><a href="http://gardeners.com/"><span>gardeners.com</span></a><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Little Seed Farm</span></b><span> – Goat milk and botanical skin cream and soap,
plastic-free shipping. Some products have plastic lids and bottles. Great goat
pictures. Farm is in Tennessee.</span> <span> hello@littleseedfarm.com<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://littleseedfarm.com/"><span>littleseedfarm.com</span></a><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Sheets Laundry Club</span></b><span> – Laundry sheets, soap and detergent, ships
plastic-free. PVA (a fossil fuel) is used in the laundry strips. Mooresville,
NC 833.274.3387 </span><a href="http://sheetslaundryclub.com/"><span>sheetslaundryclub.com
</span></a><span> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Tru Earth</span></b><span> – Laundry strips, there is PVA in the sheets, but this
involves a lot less plastic than buying a plastic container of detergent</span><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">. </span><a href="mailto:info@tru.earth"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Open Sans";">info@tru.earth</span></a><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background: white;">.</span><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Wowe – </span></b><span>Silk dental floss, floss is in a little bag made of
corn starch, bamboo toothbrushes. Now distributed by Amazon, which typically
ships using plastic. </span><a href="http://www.wowelifestyle.com/"><span>wowelifestyle.com</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span> </span></span><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></p>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6834515962367699133.post-44656546448021810752024-03-10T03:00:00.008-04:002024-03-10T03:00:00.343-04:00Life and laughs<p> The laughs were a result of my level of anxiety which prompted me to take on "The Old Story Teller" modality!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtsu9wb0Cm3fugMcSVEObsqdYHfiZMXndJ5Eeqjr6zckQz8EsPwpjbPLbW5vGTtl10-kJ7-no8W_-1dLE-oSe8I2z4cgExxaunk9_qT_1356wGnxJaBOb7767rX5bFSmXitZk8DgqsKfiUyIGGzwFLRx1G2EGSXVDNjsFwxkJz2GZnuZLgJpPZ4NbZLvG6/s4032/IMG_0377.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtsu9wb0Cm3fugMcSVEObsqdYHfiZMXndJ5Eeqjr6zckQz8EsPwpjbPLbW5vGTtl10-kJ7-no8W_-1dLE-oSe8I2z4cgExxaunk9_qT_1356wGnxJaBOb7767rX5bFSmXitZk8DgqsKfiUyIGGzwFLRx1G2EGSXVDNjsFwxkJz2GZnuZLgJpPZ4NbZLvG6/w480-h640/IMG_0377.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Once upon a time...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Not so very long ago...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">An old woman sat for an hour playing solitaire in the waiting room...</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipCXyJFtLL-DfgIo1YbcN4e7_U5tsgkELEMMP-v8lI3GI3Sd0DQe3MBfl0qI_Vr90YtWV6yAPWSG6RSRbJ9lRV2N2gr_0GyofE6Iv7JhBK7AWC8cZuAEYT9PoEfG_b4RaddoJEsKCINGQZp8P3uzQ29T53kLMM5HgISmFL6B3C2dB4F-GSXIbPelFXvHcC/s3088/IMG_0378.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipCXyJFtLL-DfgIo1YbcN4e7_U5tsgkELEMMP-v8lI3GI3Sd0DQe3MBfl0qI_Vr90YtWV6yAPWSG6RSRbJ9lRV2N2gr_0GyofE6Iv7JhBK7AWC8cZuAEYT9PoEfG_b4RaddoJEsKCINGQZp8P3uzQ29T53kLMM5HgISmFL6B3C2dB4F-GSXIbPelFXvHcC/w480-h640/IMG_0378.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Then she was fetched by...<div>twin ladies in pink, who each had long blond hair (not really twins but working together)</div><div>to go through the long labyrinth to sit</div><div> and wait a bit longer in the chair that swallows one back into submissiveness...</div><div><br /></div><div>And there she met the black clad dentist of three eyes (no photos please!)</div><div>Dr. B...heimer! of the many laughs!</div><div><br /></div><div>and then she was tilted back with her mouth wide open</div><div><br /></div><div>then the "a little pinch perhaps"...which curled my toes...</div><div>and another "this won't hurt as much" she said (was that a cackle in her tone?</div><div><br /></div><div>still mouth wide open </div><div>for a long long long time...</div><div><br /></div><div>Grind away the decay, while she cheerfully bantered with the twins</div><div>Sorry Amanda and Tony. the observer, you were very helpful, but really- Pink gowns!</div><div><br /></div><div>a little suction please?</div><div><br /></div><div>I closed my eyes at the beginning and tried to go to a beach</div><div>where I lay in the sun by the waves,</div><div>but then...</div><div>mouth still open, </div><div><br /></div><div>and more grinding (this is polishing)</div><div><br /></div><div>My jaws kept popping out of alinement after being held open for over 40 minutes.</div><div>I stopped everything and massaged them.</div><div><br /></div><div>The finally it was over, and they laughed and applauded my story.</div><div>Not the end.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>I checked out at 4:30 from my 2:15 appointment. And I heard Dr. B. say she had another patient still waiting. </div><div><br /></div><div>I did warn them (when they appreciated my "voice of the old woman") that I would be happy to publish this story on my blog...after they encouraged me to do so! Unfortunately you don't know the tone, but it's like trying to tell the story of "It was a dark and scary night...." Plus lots of waving of hands. That all happened when they weren't working on my teeth!</div></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZyNDMmvJG8chQNnSSRpX_rHUEuhdim7MnnTu-iUzhsDd8HyaFg2BwLyJcqAGLkSM8MywKgQne4Ec8HBgDHgDQIcgpJqN1z3eBdj3KGZ3pEpWU4vxuJNu5AMt6JxSU1h0VaTs5r22MpEIrEK16kKYt-8TdGb7Q2S17u_r6RqVQYzWBB8VHOoXgaCzZDpuV/s4032/IMG_0376.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZyNDMmvJG8chQNnSSRpX_rHUEuhdim7MnnTu-iUzhsDd8HyaFg2BwLyJcqAGLkSM8MywKgQne4Ec8HBgDHgDQIcgpJqN1z3eBdj3KGZ3pEpWU4vxuJNu5AMt6JxSU1h0VaTs5r22MpEIrEK16kKYt-8TdGb7Q2S17u_r6RqVQYzWBB8VHOoXgaCzZDpuV/w480-h640/IMG_0376.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Out the window I saw this courtyard with a pretty scene painted on one wall.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkV2sw6_RCt3Ah4g0iHY-TmDeJNROA5HOekreqhrW9DOTrxM6PwiHlZG9ApeNK-0RpNeMOvL4wnNZAPuuUyNTYHzQdxVAwXl8Ry5WLrswlKeLc5Va6aYGlevjzYrMUAfLY9WAEoCv6eJtUY8xLzU0_Bt00Iqm1IAWJ7EqgDTHlPMH38wotAcaN8sWGdBV_/s4032/IMG_0375.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkV2sw6_RCt3Ah4g0iHY-TmDeJNROA5HOekreqhrW9DOTrxM6PwiHlZG9ApeNK-0RpNeMOvL4wnNZAPuuUyNTYHzQdxVAwXl8Ry5WLrswlKeLc5Va6aYGlevjzYrMUAfLY9WAEoCv6eJtUY8xLzU0_Bt00Iqm1IAWJ7EqgDTHlPMH38wotAcaN8sWGdBV_/w480-h640/IMG_0375.jpg" width="480" /></a></div>And look what my dental assistant Amanda, had on her window sill? Sort of dragons/alligators. But we didn't have any opportunity to discuss them.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJBRtppVG_PRUaj1iX49U-IDpD203XORhcVlPq_mEmW6bEZJL2EaYkVsH7QjKPchqh6WEE2A31ofXgAMCePTeIN1AP0d9XZ791uqYOLLTPSHYVWF2KnO5XjECjCTY5A5iATFwSwQ4U7d2OPF4zSnQcFpevmLkz1j5fzAY9Vctsu__tnyVrJKs41Wl5chDy/s4032/IMG_0379.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJBRtppVG_PRUaj1iX49U-IDpD203XORhcVlPq_mEmW6bEZJL2EaYkVsH7QjKPchqh6WEE2A31ofXgAMCePTeIN1AP0d9XZ791uqYOLLTPSHYVWF2KnO5XjECjCTY5A5iATFwSwQ4U7d2OPF4zSnQcFpevmLkz1j5fzAY9Vctsu__tnyVrJKs41Wl5chDy/w480-h640/IMG_0379.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The parking lot had this wonderful old tree, barely hanging on to the brink above yet another parking area. But hey, look at those yellow spots!</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvfxJHln6Un9QJPGsby7jY0fJ810EnIwME201rPEq2W11uuqzDGEsMfX_zYOCI2AKKVr8hKUrnN8pZU6AiLEDqjnweAINSIJRCgmHbgdfvvPPqYHkugNicxzd-WhKnYWAukrik9p7QdpdFayRGwSBYlWJbndEXG9-dPNIIki-FKyolgblQKwtaCsZ1lWOi/s4032/IMG_0380.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvfxJHln6Un9QJPGsby7jY0fJ810EnIwME201rPEq2W11uuqzDGEsMfX_zYOCI2AKKVr8hKUrnN8pZU6AiLEDqjnweAINSIJRCgmHbgdfvvPPqYHkugNicxzd-WhKnYWAukrik9p7QdpdFayRGwSBYlWJbndEXG9-dPNIIki-FKyolgblQKwtaCsZ1lWOi/w480-h640/IMG_0380.jpg" width="480" /></a></div>Yes, Forsythia is in bloom in Asheville. NC.</div><div><br /></div><div>Incidentally the clinic I go to for dental care has low cost procedures based on your income. They can don most things. But I did have to go to an outside dentist to have my bridge built. Fortunately I also have some dental insurance through Medicare!</div><div><br /></div><div>Oh, the evening meal was delicious to the side of my tongue which could taste. Unfortunately my numb cheek was the victim of some of my chewing, so it got really sore! So the next day I was on semi-liquids...no salad for me for that day!</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLWEPRA3gYi_NqHEnjyuOkEvpIDexOzOFNeG9VZvxSQPLr7P_2wkNpKYoq4fBPrFVgVBn_oZn3y0DUBX-TOjKRb6Ip7p4YYxSKt3d9oTB56I7NuTZtAgrA3rrD5KE-C6xc2MG-z0yy3YZNsx8PjP7XaHdknmA-5M5JQAuq7RrSvL47OhO88LF0bRDVc2t6/s843/u338207969_1153270622029663_8122432690699714556_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="843" data-original-width="843" height="494" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLWEPRA3gYi_NqHEnjyuOkEvpIDexOzOFNeG9VZvxSQPLr7P_2wkNpKYoq4fBPrFVgVBn_oZn3y0DUBX-TOjKRb6Ip7p4YYxSKt3d9oTB56I7NuTZtAgrA3rrD5KE-C6xc2MG-z0yy3YZNsx8PjP7XaHdknmA-5M5JQAuq7RrSvL47OhO88LF0bRDVc2t6/w494-h494/u338207969_1153270622029663_8122432690699714556_n.jpg" width="494" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Today's quote:<div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weeds. -Luther Burbank, horticulturist (1849-1926)</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span><div><p>And be forewarned, I am not posting or sharing any more political posts, on any blogs or my Facebook page. This is the season where many lies are told by politicians. They can't help it. It's like how male birds put on pretty plumage and dances to attract mates.</p></div></div>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6834515962367699133.post-14460412619983191462024-03-08T03:00:00.002-05:002024-03-08T03:00:00.140-05:00Fighting climate change from space<p> Vital Signs (from the Environmental Defense Fund) published an article at the end of January.</p><p>Some of it is future-talk, which I skim over as a possibility which might already have happened, given the date of the article. Am I really learning anything here?</p><p>And then there are the real catches to the topic presented here. </p><p><a href="https://vitalsigns.edf.org/story/welcome-future-5-ways-world-fighting-climate-change-space?ub_tg=718&ub_tc=1&ub_o=26&ub_cta=14&ub_f=t&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=edf_methanesat_pd_pmt&utm_medium=paid-social&utm_id=1707769479&aud=27&fbclid=IwAR0eTclUsQxzvWnVj37XDUViPH1eASs80lbo3ofnpwXKzB16qkjk8P3Zahg">Welcome to the Future: Five Ways the World is fighting Climate Change from Space.</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPC9XDVY7dQVsT6ArHXlyFTA8eXNmQSxnAHoEAFLlOaNr2-HTwSsj2mi853Ay_17WOILQ0ZSZkD9xNKokQFD9-jEsKWY1-oC8pbxgyuwWIBRJ7ZXlNuHoyLHfJYl7hTtsre0FmEm-6J1g6efha4nIRwcUBt032kLmyEmkgizBzmAH6mRZgwA1UlG1-AvXw/s1380/5%20ways%20fighting%20climate%20change%20from%20space.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="629" data-original-width="1380" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPC9XDVY7dQVsT6ArHXlyFTA8eXNmQSxnAHoEAFLlOaNr2-HTwSsj2mi853Ay_17WOILQ0ZSZkD9xNKokQFD9-jEsKWY1-oC8pbxgyuwWIBRJ7ZXlNuHoyLHfJYl7hTtsre0FmEm-6J1g6efha4nIRwcUBt032kLmyEmkgizBzmAH6mRZgwA1UlG1-AvXw/w555-h253/5%20ways%20fighting%20climate%20change%20from%20space.jpg" width="555" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Today's quote:</p><table style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: #5d5651; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-left: 71.7756px; padding-right: 71.7756px; text-align: center;"><p style="color: #333333; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-top: 4px;">The unknown is where possibility glitters.</p></td></tr><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;" valign="top"><p style="color: #767676; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 27px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">MICHELLE OBAMA</p></td></tr></tbody></table>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6834515962367699133.post-79266236178321930592024-03-07T03:00:00.001-05:002024-03-07T03:00:00.274-05:00Yes. I said.<p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> <span style="text-align: center;">Billy looked at the clock on the gas stove. </span></span></p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: center;">He had an hour to kill before the saucer came. </div><div style="text-align: center;">He went into the living room, swinging the bottle like a dinner bell, </div><div style="text-align: center;">turned on the television. He came slightly unstuck in time, </div><div style="text-align: center;">saw the late movie backwards, then forwards again. </div><div style="text-align: center;">It was a movie about American bombers in the Second World War</div><div style="text-align: center;"> and the gallant men who flew them. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Seen backwards by Billy, the story went like this:</div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: center;">American planes, full of holes and wounded men and corpses, </div><div style="text-align: center;">took off backwards from an airfield in England. Over France, </div><div style="text-align: center;">a few German fighter planes flew at them backwards, </div><div style="text-align: center;">sucked bullets and shell fragments </div><div style="text-align: center;">from some of the planes and crewmen.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The bombers opened their bomb-bay doors, </div><div style="text-align: center;">exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk the fires, </div><div style="text-align: center;">gathered them into cylindrical steel containers, </div><div style="text-align: center;">and lifted the containers into the bellies of the planes.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The Germans below had miraculous devices of their own,</div><div style="text-align: center;"> which were long steel tubes. They used them to suck</div><div style="text-align: center;"> more fragments from the crewmen and planes.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">When the bombers got back to their base,</div><div style="text-align: center;"> the steel cylinders were taken from the racks</div><div style="text-align: center;"> and shipped back to the United States of America, </div><div style="text-align: center;">where factories were operating night and day, </div><div style="text-align: center;">dismantling the cylinders, </div><div style="text-align: center;">separating the dangerous contents into minerals.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Touchingly, it was mainly women who did this work.</div><div style="text-align: center;">The minerals were then shipped to specialists in remote areas.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> It was their business to put them into the ground, </div><div style="text-align: center;">to hide them cleverly,</div><div style="text-align: center;"> so they would never hurt anybody ever again.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The American fliers turned in their uniforms, </div><div style="text-align: center;">became high school kids. And Hitler turned into a baby, </div><div style="text-align: center;">Billy Pilgrim supposed. </div><div style="text-align: center;">That wasn't in the movie. Billy was extrapolating. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Everybody turned into a baby, and all humanity, </div><div style="text-align: center;">without exception, conspired biologically </div><div style="text-align: center;">to produce two perfect people named Adam and Eve,</div><div style="text-align: center;"> he supposed.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><span style="background-color: white;"><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;">~ Kurt Vonnegut</div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;">from <i>Slaughterhouse Five</i></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;">with thanks to love is a place</div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">As posted<a href="https://beautywelove.blogspot.com/2024/03/some-backward-perspective.html"> here in The Beauty we Love.</a></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjujQoAntkMJRkXvSMzslxVsrchVZ8uuEcMnao-Uo3pQ0-NoGzKpi7usYrV3K5pyHfu4ISqOZ9dIGp8OHtugdHhbd8ev_bJl8BPcDuroXqPcRmQPGdqo6l5CVmXeshojv7ZZPRWmpCdmZTtdEs_ShpFuIs4wfsdFydfy4BzM3XibRDPw_7sQdnkl-w9DF2A/s960/PhotoofdevastatedDresden%20-%20Jason%20Dawsey.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="960" height="361" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjujQoAntkMJRkXvSMzslxVsrchVZ8uuEcMnao-Uo3pQ0-NoGzKpi7usYrV3K5pyHfu4ISqOZ9dIGp8OHtugdHhbd8ev_bJl8BPcDuroXqPcRmQPGdqo6l5CVmXeshojv7ZZPRWmpCdmZTtdEs_ShpFuIs4wfsdFydfy4BzM3XibRDPw_7sQdnkl-w9DF2A/w496-h361/PhotoofdevastatedDresden%20-%20Jason%20Dawsey.jpg" width="496" /></a></div>PhotoofdevastatedDresden - Jason Dawsey<br /><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><br /></div></span>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6834515962367699133.post-15031720555000256332024-03-06T03:00:00.025-05:002024-03-06T03:00:00.161-05:00Good influence<p> To avoid single use plastic...I've been taking my own utensils to the lunch program, as well as a cloth napkin and a mug or cup...which also relieves the use of a straw or a styrofoam cup.</p><p>And several others have started to do the same!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvaCbJnGICbmrvU7AIl_lKewrBxtQf8Ai9b0SR95peNVw_9YbMNX_uALON-cDwzERMQO-AwprQYXJZv-H8sPJq-82mYtOeH30S3WOlMa26ALY1QQ9GbYfFr5OqHTu0mv6xxnOiqAWy_Rl0G4G1VbHpVFq0a-zMk5GxtmkK0IfdtoiXAZD42ku86-lyIm23/s4032/IMG_0297.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="624" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvaCbJnGICbmrvU7AIl_lKewrBxtQf8Ai9b0SR95peNVw_9YbMNX_uALON-cDwzERMQO-AwprQYXJZv-H8sPJq-82mYtOeH30S3WOlMa26ALY1QQ9GbYfFr5OqHTu0mv6xxnOiqAWy_Rl0G4G1VbHpVFq0a-zMk5GxtmkK0IfdtoiXAZD42ku86-lyIm23/w468-h624/IMG_0297.jpg" width="468" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>Yipee! A small step for our huge problem of plastics.</p><p>In case you may have forgotten, each person consumes micro-plastics in our air, water and food, to the extent that each week we consume a credit cards' worth of micro-plastics...the tiny bits that are microscopic from all the plastic in our lives today. Think of the fake soft fabric that is actually made of plastic fibers...it's the worst I can think of.</p><p>I'm still hoping that shopping bags at grocery stores can be eliminated, and many people are carrying their own shopping bags with them now.</p><p>Yes, it's just a drop in a huge bucket. But having made the effort, rather than thumbing my nose at the problem because it is so huge, I have made a dent. Perhaps enough to equal a credit card's worth.</p><p>Today's quote:</p><table style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: #5d5651; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-left: 71.7756px; padding-right: 71.7756px; text-align: center;"><p style="color: #333333; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-top: 4px;">In the middle of every difficulty lies an opportunity.</p></td></tr><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;" valign="top"><p style="color: #767676; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 27px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">MATEO ASKARIPOUR</p></td></tr></tbody></table>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6834515962367699133.post-63981728159649384702024-03-05T03:00:00.003-05:002024-03-05T03:00:00.135-05:00And there go "race, color, sex, national origin, gender identity or sexual orientation"<p> Another Facebook friend just posted how the conservatives in Florida are changing education...and she's not supporting it one bit. She changed her financial support towards the University of Florida as a result of this action:</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/02/us/university-florida-dei.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Z00.lR9E.Xg2qGhurqiIO&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&fbclid=IwAR0cceFEDWf2IMfbanUamxAdrQisM7LBK3cMupU_HUOqTHLuRMGymKiQIgY">University of Florida eliminates all DEI positions</a></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;">"The University of Florida has terminated all positions associated with diversity, equity and inclusion at the school in compliance with new state regulations, according to a university memo released on Friday." </span></p></blockquote><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;">said Anna Betts on March 2, 2024.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #363636;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As another alumni of that institution, I'm also worried. It's one thing to ban books in school libraries. But this effects many minority people who are being educated, as well as the study programs about diversity, equity and inclusion.</span></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">The University of Florida’s terminations included closing the office of the chief diversity officer and halting all D.E.I. contracts with outside vendors, according to the <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://administrativememo.ufl.edu/2024/03/compliance-with-bog-regulation-9-016-on-prohibited-expenditures/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">announcement</a> on Friday. Thirteen full-time positions were eliminated, along with administrative appointments for 15 faculty members, a spokeswoman for the university said in an email.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">The university is just the latest school in the state to eliminate D.E.I. programs. Both the University of North Florida and Florida International University have already removed or started to phase out such programs..."</p></blockquote><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #363636;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">"Universities across the country have vastly expanded diversity programs in recent decades <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/01/20/us/dei-woke-claremont-institute.html" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" title="">amid concerns over underrepresentation on campus.</a> Supporters of D.E.I. have said that the initiatives are a good way to foster inclusion and that they help students from all backgrounds succeed on campus.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">But more recently, D.E.I. efforts have become the center of a culture war and part of a fight by conservatives against “wokeism.” Critics say that the programs are discriminatory to those who may be left out in an effort to boost representation of other groups and that they aim to advance left-wing ideas about gender and race.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">Under Florida’s <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.flbog.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Regulation-9.016.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">regulation</a>, state universities are barred from using government funds to “advocate” D.E.I. initiatives, which is defined as “any program, campus activity or policy that classifies individuals on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, gender identity or sexual orientation, and promotes differential or preferential treatment of individuals on the basis of such classification.”</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">On Friday, the University of Florida said that it would reallocate the approximately $5 million in funds previously reported for D.E.I. expenses into a faculty recruitment fund...."</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;">"The university added that the terminated employees will receive 12 weeks’ worth of pay. It encouraged them to apply for different positions within the school, saying they would receive “expedited consideration.”</span></p></blockquote><p> </p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></p>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6834515962367699133.post-6444917823568732392024-03-04T04:00:00.017-05:002024-03-04T04:00:00.134-05:00Who cares about climate change?<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifqlZxUr2tZLBKCqEdCFEmhuzFjK87PVJJlIsBEjxBOxg64vovjXelRBQzI_8I-zycgaf30qqahFzu70JDCO3cv9Gg3hT4ml5Ad54izy0EqNPOF0kg8fkxKHvhwUD0CIZw03bHL9QzMMcR2RkJ64qRhBJDb48wTVpCDhq0ywSdyMAeFnxuGOIgmTgG3k7O/s720/138325051_10157970351178660_8372309865751837169_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #e1ecd5; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="355" data-original-width="720" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifqlZxUr2tZLBKCqEdCFEmhuzFjK87PVJJlIsBEjxBOxg64vovjXelRBQzI_8I-zycgaf30qqahFzu70JDCO3cv9Gg3hT4ml5Ad54izy0EqNPOF0kg8fkxKHvhwUD0CIZw03bHL9QzMMcR2RkJ64qRhBJDb48wTVpCDhq0ywSdyMAeFnxuGOIgmTgG3k7O/w503-h248/138325051_10157970351178660_8372309865751837169_n.jpg" width="503" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 25px;">There is near-universal global public support for climate action, yet people systematically underestimate the commitment of their peers, according to a new study.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 36px; margin: 25px;">The research, published in <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-024-01925-3" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2f8fce; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">Nature Climate Change</a>, is based on a globally-representative sample of nearly 130,000 people in 125 countries.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 36px; margin: 25px;">It finds that 86% of people “support pro-climate social norms” and 89% would like their governments to do more to tackle warming. Moreover, 69% say they would be willing to contribute 1% of their income to addressing climate change.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 36px; margin: 25px;">Yet respondents also “systematically underestimate the willingness of their fellow citizens to act”, according to the paper, creating a potentially challenging “perception gap”.</p><li class="c-article-author-list__item" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; display: inline; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; padding-right: 0px;">By: <a data-author-popup="auth-Peter-Andre-Aff1" data-author-search="Andre, Peter" data-test="author-name" data-track-action="open author" data-track-label="link" data-track="click" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-024-01925-3#auth-Peter-Andre-Aff1" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #006699; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625rem; text-underline-offset: 0.08em; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Peter Andre</a>, </li><li class="c-article-author-list__item" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; display: inline; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; padding-right: 0px;"><a data-author-popup="auth-Teodora-Boneva-Aff2" data-author-search="Boneva, Teodora" data-test="author-name" data-track-action="open author" data-track-label="link" data-track="click" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-024-01925-3#auth-Teodora-Boneva-Aff2" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #006699; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625rem; text-underline-offset: 0.08em; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Teodora Boneva</a>, </li><li class="c-article-author-list__item c-article-author-list__item--hide-small-screen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; display: inline; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; padding-right: 0px;"><a data-author-popup="auth-Felix-Chopra-Aff3" data-author-search="Chopra, Felix" data-test="author-name" data-track-action="open author" data-track-label="link" data-track="click" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-024-01925-3#auth-Felix-Chopra-Aff3" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #006699; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625rem; text-underline-offset: 0.08em; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Felix Chopra</a> & </li><li class="c-article-author-list__item" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; display: inline; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; padding-right: 0px;"><a data-author-popup="auth-Armin-Falk-Aff2" data-author-search="Falk, Armin" data-corresp-id="c1" data-test="author-name" data-track-action="open author" data-track-label="link" data-track="click" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-024-01925-3#auth-Armin-Falk-Aff2" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #006699; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-decoration-thickness: 0.25rem; text-underline-offset: 0.08em; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Armin Falk</a></li><div><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, Helvetica Neue, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, Helvetica Neue, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><br /></span><div><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, Helvetica Neue, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #e1ecd5;">This perception gap can leave us feeling hopeless and discouraged, but the reality is that </span><strong style="background-color: #e1ecd5;">the vast majority of people are on board with climate action.</strong><span style="background-color: #e1ecd5;"> “This means that we can move the debate forward and focus on how we can best tap into this broad willingness to contribute [and] to best tackle the challenges posed by climate change,” said the study's authors.</span><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #e1ecd5;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">As quoted by Katharine Hayhoe's "Talking Climate Newsletter"</span></span></div></div></div><div><span style="background-color: #e1ecd5;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #e1ecd5;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6834515962367699133.post-40589296432043592302024-03-02T11:28:00.008-05:002024-03-02T11:32:53.506-05:00Baby eagles due soon!<p> The Big Bear Eagle Cams...</p><p>This one was the live cam of the nest.<a href="https://sportsmansparadiseonline.com/bald-eagle-cams/big-bear-bald-eagles-live-cam/?fbclid=IwAR35nTPp_VJ1hqZ0m-RKfGrsvjUP7GBTeATRGuJ6RyT9X6AtJgrkC27kUUY"> https://sportsmansparadiseonline.com/bald-eagle-cams/big-bear-bald-eagles-live-cam/?fbclid=IwAR35nTPp_VJ1hqZ0m-RKfGrsvjUP7GBTeATRGuJ6RyT9X6AtJgrkC27kUUY</a></p><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" color="var(--primary-text)" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">From the Facebook Site:</span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" color="var(--primary-text)" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">"The cameras are installed in a remote forest & are 100% solar-powered. During & after adverse weather events, you may experience live feed interruptions on both cams. Don't forget to refresh often if this happens. We don't want you to miss anything!</span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" color="var(--primary-text)" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n xd10rxx x1sy0etr x17r0tee x972fbf xcfux6l x1qhh985 xm0m39n x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg" href="https://www.youtube.com/@FOBBVCAM?fbclid=IwAR02kluMmrv1JKHp3w5J6Ozlt-e_SvZE7s36l2udi6L0ZYbZedwqb20ikWI" rel="nofollow noreferrer" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/@FOBBVCAM</a></span></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" color="var(--primary-text)" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" color="var(--primary-text)" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Follow our LIVE recaps</span></span> for up-to-date information on Jackie and Shadow:</span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" color="var(--primary-text)" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n xd10rxx x1sy0etr x17r0tee x972fbf xcfux6l x1qhh985 xm0m39n x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gx7VP85Gwp1jhHRilStcZMrnUPszHQ0-w1czkjnf9bc/preview?fbclid=IwAR2Ej2DwHk2N3UTY__1RtTSSBB2FLFO_3lrfFYYyniPe-Q1OhNQg3JNGDHI" rel="nofollow noreferrer" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/.../1gx7VP85Gwp1jhHRilStc.../preview</a> "</span></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" color="var(--primary-text)" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">------------------</span></span></div><p>I think the 3 chicks should be pipping out of their shells soon. The Facebook site has had wonderful narration of the parent's activities of nesting. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sportsmansparadiseonline">https://www.facebook.com/sportsmansparadiseonline</a> It also has other sites posted.</p><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">"Big Bear Bald Eagle Nest Cam - California</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It’s almost time for triplets! It’s been about 35 days since the 1st egg was laid. Bald Eagles usually incubate their eggs for 34-36 days before they hatch. They also start incubation after the 1st egg is laid. Meaning all eggs will hatch in the timeline of which they were laid."</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj89FqpGnFtQm7SqlgZS_PxufRnIuh3IVdtJy0xcGlxMdHa2MkiqSfX3L0cM9xdMuScoxtiAGH4090aHv6_8cor_9aZPqA-khz-uK6RhAhpOrDO3R3gk3MNJ3nS9tu1LZaUGFwFMOm7o89GEuiPv2Inq-or26lsVRlAZHfYhYFx6kFT7SixjrDUsZcjTd7/s501/Big%20Bear%20CA%20eagles%20Shadow%20and%20Jackie%20and%20triplet%20eggs%202.28.24.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="292" data-original-width="501" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj89FqpGnFtQm7SqlgZS_PxufRnIuh3IVdtJy0xcGlxMdHa2MkiqSfX3L0cM9xdMuScoxtiAGH4090aHv6_8cor_9aZPqA-khz-uK6RhAhpOrDO3R3gk3MNJ3nS9tu1LZaUGFwFMOm7o89GEuiPv2Inq-or26lsVRlAZHfYhYFx6kFT7SixjrDUsZcjTd7/w447-h261/Big%20Bear%20CA%20eagles%20Shadow%20and%20Jackie%20and%20triplet%20eggs%202.28.24.jpg" width="447" /></a></div><br /><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Sharing (late) with<a href="https://birdingforpleasure.blogspot.com/search/label/Saturdays%20Critters"> Saturday's Critters!</a></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Today's quote:</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="color: #222222; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -James Joyce, novelist (1882-1941)</span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></div>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6834515962367699133.post-76378548246208692852024-03-02T03:00:00.001-05:002024-03-02T03:00:00.161-05:00Avoided an accident<p> Hello from Friday, the rain constant day here in Black Mountain.</p><p>But I'm also saying hello from the accident that didn't happen.</p><p>You know, you are changing lanes, going over to the slow lane because it's empty, but there's also a merging lane coming in. And apparently I was invisible to them, because I suddenly saw their front left wheel and bumper out my passenger side window! Coming at me, and by then the driver must have noticed me too. But I was the one who took action.</p><p>It was a foot away, and I turned back into the fast lane, avoiding the crash. My friend on her way to a doctor's appointment has anxiety attacks. If this didn't give her one I'd be really surprised.</p><p>For me, the adrenalin rush was definitely there. I talked about it, giddy with gratitude to still be rolling along, where we exited at the next ramp.</p><p>In North Carolina, you must understand, on-ramp people come barreling out, with foot slammed on the accelerator. If they passed a driver's test that said to merge into oncoming traffic after yielding to it, they have learned the opposite is the way the world works around here.</p><p>I sometimes will drive along a shoulder when my efforts to merge into traffic are thwarted by a semi truck. Honestly, I try a mixture of yielding and trying to get up to 70 mph by the time there's a gap.</p><p>But the usual traffic on the Interstate is also aware of this situation. Our on-ramps in the mountains are often just 1/3 or even 1/4th of what is needed to merge into the fast traffic. I-26 is the worst I think. There on-coming cars are yielded to by the traffic on the highway...it's seen by everyone. Of course if you're from out-of-state, you may not notice it at first. </p><p>And the real problem is when there's just too much traffic on the interstate to allow others to join at all.</p><p>So here I yam, another day alive, against some odds I'd imagine. My friend had her Dr. appointment, took a heavy duty pain pill, and was "feeling good" - enough to go pick up chili and a baked potato at Wendy's. </p><p>No mention was made of our brush with eternity.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUPaZoPUv8JK92vI76zlztJdKPSDHnjnhAaKJUT68ysNRrvy4sz8zavO7zS4PxfvUoe_fmQlO79T0RflVyPL6j8Vq2fdqZ39kAWyU2K9X_P_3RwrIfR8oU9d6UVETDBmdKejnmt7pr28iPa9U9cc5oZH6o1GUfmwO2lOmgkAZ2XuRhQbf_Kgya4BFss6sZ/s480/Downtown%20BM%20now.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="359" height="514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUPaZoPUv8JK92vI76zlztJdKPSDHnjnhAaKJUT68ysNRrvy4sz8zavO7zS4PxfvUoe_fmQlO79T0RflVyPL6j8Vq2fdqZ39kAWyU2K9X_P_3RwrIfR8oU9d6UVETDBmdKejnmt7pr28iPa9U9cc5oZH6o1GUfmwO2lOmgkAZ2XuRhQbf_Kgya4BFss6sZ/w384-h514/Downtown%20BM%20now.JPG" width="384" /></a></div><br /><p>Today's quote: (I swear this was just the next one in my file)</p><table style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: #5d5651; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-left: 71.7756px; padding-right: 71.7756px; text-align: center;"><p style="color: #333333; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-top: 4px;">The ability to wake up to another new day — one with which we will surely need to wrestle and reckon, but one that will also teach and transform us … this is the unpromised gift for which to be grateful.</p></td></tr><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;" valign="top"><p style="color: #767676; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 27px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">KRISTI NELSON</p></td></tr></tbody></table>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6834515962367699133.post-7100658659627394772024-03-01T09:00:00.004-05:002024-03-01T09:00:00.151-05:00Happy first of March everyone!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXuyy4OFt2ndF_clUYAZ21bM2ZYYVPS2VayErEEDInD7LzBM6BBVHSTfsQo-K5VnCJCg0eIDxQp40JDCeCIRsXms7ixE6_JuAqn-duBdv5ruO0a5Fc6XMGzRCdSD7amPAtHCbL8J0fjYtmSlPWwZ2ibhmTlRVzX1JQP_oPe0DGRFVAxdPZG1QQf-lVSa9K/s4032/IMG_0192.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="602" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXuyy4OFt2ndF_clUYAZ21bM2ZYYVPS2VayErEEDInD7LzBM6BBVHSTfsQo-K5VnCJCg0eIDxQp40JDCeCIRsXms7ixE6_JuAqn-duBdv5ruO0a5Fc6XMGzRCdSD7amPAtHCbL8J0fjYtmSlPWwZ2ibhmTlRVzX1JQP_oPe0DGRFVAxdPZG1QQf-lVSa9K/w451-h602/IMG_0192.jpg" width="451" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Rabbit rabbit! What - you don't think those silly pills look like a rabbit. Use your imagination!!</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwtRSawep69AM9_bR61JkUg9L8xCp6HFLi1jCWffxQIkF8aZW86RxTlD6t1hwLKOMU82looiuTbq8UZvggsdrI-Cx2ZgYrkTJ9p5FvXh85a-0yQaZ7v78o1RZxIJgkUZR10UBiRA_fGSpER9ECBu90-07mxEx08Abg0El2-VKd-C6Mxw2xC6Z7_y6Wufy1/s858/Three%20kittens%20on%20sheep.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="858" data-original-width="843" height="459" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwtRSawep69AM9_bR61JkUg9L8xCp6HFLi1jCWffxQIkF8aZW86RxTlD6t1hwLKOMU82looiuTbq8UZvggsdrI-Cx2ZgYrkTJ9p5FvXh85a-0yQaZ7v78o1RZxIJgkUZR10UBiRA_fGSpER9ECBu90-07mxEx08Abg0El2-VKd-C6Mxw2xC6Z7_y6Wufy1/w451-h459/Three%20kittens%20on%20sheep.jpg" width="451" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And you're absolutely right...no rabbits here!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjefZ4ViSrjlrPo7Srq1XjygjYHemtKli00qSTKsyiF8w9xDQxKXfUEaDkZ5whG5IM761bXuv-32O8SAesGD_dTgErn_sooT3lub1bVeuKct3C67_NlKdfne6PCi8sb9J97gy5PxvpFVHFfRTFFGUUuN4FiV_fAEsV9zPnarbb4dyGJf8XNw-mj03sV0GxZ/s2016/IMG_0202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="652" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjefZ4ViSrjlrPo7Srq1XjygjYHemtKli00qSTKsyiF8w9xDQxKXfUEaDkZ5whG5IM761bXuv-32O8SAesGD_dTgErn_sooT3lub1bVeuKct3C67_NlKdfne6PCi8sb9J97gy5PxvpFVHFfRTFFGUUuN4FiV_fAEsV9zPnarbb4dyGJf8XNw-mj03sV0GxZ/w489-h652/IMG_0202.jpg" width="489" /></a></div>My friend Diane now has a tuxedo cat. They are just purr-fect. As a matter of fact that was the name of ours once upon a time.<p></p><p><br /></p><p>Today's quote:</p><table style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: #5d5651; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-left: 71.7756px; padding-right: 71.7756px; text-align: center;"><p style="color: #333333; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-top: 4px;">Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise – then you will discover the fullness of your life.</p></td></tr><tr><td style="font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;" valign="top"><p style="color: #767676; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 27px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">BR. DAVID STEINDL-RAST</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>Sharing with Saturday Critters too, in the morning.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggirhqvQ38oY9KwVEIqKfwUk2OAxb7On-WsTNFHyvdxCHCfYwQhwT1ayCpqKwryRZWHhP8OjA6zSAWYDhGn1Muv7Nh7AYvZlRcHx669BYczLRF4evBr_2t6u17Tx8KgV88p3bdtUFP3oXdRhyphenhyphena09gTCA2uIyHGAdkzDdh1BLCQrSH4IjYvRR7uETShWbM_/s324/saturdays-critters.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="235" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggirhqvQ38oY9KwVEIqKfwUk2OAxb7On-WsTNFHyvdxCHCfYwQhwT1ayCpqKwryRZWHhP8OjA6zSAWYDhGn1Muv7Nh7AYvZlRcHx669BYczLRF4evBr_2t6u17Tx8KgV88p3bdtUFP3oXdRhyphenhyphena09gTCA2uIyHGAdkzDdh1BLCQrSH4IjYvRR7uETShWbM_/s320/saturdays-critters.jpg" width="232" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6834515962367699133.post-53974318403369031602024-02-29T08:22:00.002-05:002024-02-29T08:22:10.604-05:00Happy Sadie Hawkins Day!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipxErgLTrRs-gcdgcUanYab0azUPReK5NZkwFqo7jEr2362YsAjyUe6RGVB_axqSuOzF67XckCaNpSu1DAeifNhQMcj5ULh-kaWVJ16i_hcErQZPG4px_bLcnI0LzIMz6akmtggzlCYIhNZK9pw-T-rwkX0q1iAIvpRV5cB1PW-6tfiZrBuySkCeQoVp1H/s4032/Me%20in%20St.%20Pete%20Beach%20water.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipxErgLTrRs-gcdgcUanYab0azUPReK5NZkwFqo7jEr2362YsAjyUe6RGVB_axqSuOzF67XckCaNpSu1DAeifNhQMcj5ULh-kaWVJ16i_hcErQZPG4px_bLcnI0LzIMz6akmtggzlCYIhNZK9pw-T-rwkX0q1iAIvpRV5cB1PW-6tfiZrBuySkCeQoVp1H/s320/Me%20in%20St.%20Pete%20Beach%20water.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>This is me of course, in the most wonderful moment captured from last year. But feeling the love, the wonder of nature in all her different aspects, and making memories!<p></p><p>I am only posting now because, a. I don't want to worry people, and 2. I should give fair warning when backing out of my usually daily posts. </p><p>But hey, three or 4 blogs is quite more than any one octogenarian should handle. And I will keep adding something sometimes, but am enjoying going to the art studio, and taking photos around town, waiting patiently for spring, so...less daily posts!</p><p>Plus I'm a helper for friends who need rides after having shoulder surgery...or when cars are in the shop. And I'm doing the lunch program almost every day at the Senior Center...which was a really good idea for February that got me up and out of the house, and met new people. My new friends from Wisconsin are going home this weekend. It's nice that they came to visit her sister here for the whole month of February.</p><p>Anyway, I'm busy. Thanks for reading, and you know I'll post something whenever it hits my heart to do so!</p><p>Do leap over something to commemorate the day!</p><p><br /></p><p>Today's quote:</p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #f7f7f4; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> “Every worthwhile book contains many faults, and every worthwhile writer commits them.” </span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "SF Pro Display", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Inter, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px;">lexicographer </span><strong style="color: #404040; font-family: "SF Pro Display", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Inter, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px;">Eric Partridge</strong><span style="color: #222222; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><strong style="color: #404040; font-family: "SF Pro Display", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Inter, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px;"><br /></strong></div>Barbara Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08351113054045427775noreply@blogger.com7