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We’re here and okay!
Hello all. We’ve been pretty much home bound here in Brooklyn since last Wednesday (save one trip to Costco and two long walks with friends) and we’re making it. Oh and Lance called in and picked up my insulin prescription from our local pharmacy, VLS, which I HIGHLY recommend. (Maybe another day I will write…
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have you ever looked at the birds? they have stories…they have to have stories.just as the movements i make are intentional, so must be the bird’s. moving from one home to the next, escaping its present reality to be replaced with a better one- maybe.they still have to face the wind, storms, and rain.and so must we…all the same. Featured Download: If…
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The Skywalker Conundrum
We all remember the scene,Luke Skywalker, chased by Tie-fighters,and that history making, chance in a millionshot on the Death Star. Cheering as children,we gave no thought to the thousands of workers on the planet,to the parents who had lost children,children who had lost parents. Doris in the Kitchen, making soup for the Storm-Troopers,Who will never…
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rubies
that familiar medicinal smellinstantly reminds her of hospitalsand bracing for a shot methodically, she douses cotton ballsand swabs the swollen lobesof newly pierced ears crimson angrythe reflection in the mirrornot what she bargained for disappointment and regretyou are the unwelcome gifts on her twelfth birthdaya first in a long line of lessons Featured Download: If…
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Reading and Decoding English
Reading and Decoding English 3 Letter 1.3 Reflections If you know people who have Dyslexia, help them learn to read starting with this column. It takes patiences to teach them the individual sounds. This is an excerpt from Title: Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley Thez reflekshonz hav dispeld the ajitashon…
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Safety
The day after we buried my grandmother,we went to the shell that was her house.The only place I had known my entire life,was now not a home of safety,but a house of little welcome, We saw what was left,after family, friends, and the house clearance had takenanything of value.Left behind was what I took, for…
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Lies My Mother Told Me, or The Seven Deadly Sins
Working is unfulfilling.Romantic love between an aunt and her nephew is beautiful.My worth lies in the number on a scale.Looks are more important than brains.Taking prescription pain medication every day is normal.What can I do to help?Things are more important than people. If you repeat a story enough times, people will believe it, even if…
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Reading and Decoding English
Reading and Decoding English 2 Letter 1.2 Navigatorz If you know people who have Dyslexia, help them learn to read starting with this column. It takes patiences to teach them the individual sounds. This is an excerpt from Title: Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley Ther—for with yor lev, mi sister,…
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Artificial Sonnets
VII. The flick’ring of the lights was the first clueThat something was amiss. The poet frowned.The building seemed to tremble then subdue,Accompanied by muffled thudding sounds.A creeping cold unease began to grow.He got up from his desk; his door was locked.He tried his phone and found the signal blocked,He shouted and heard only an echo.What…
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Tardigrade Physiology
Here’s where they live:Hot springs / deep sea / shingles on my roof Terrestrial Tardigrades adhere to liverwortsand feel most comfortable with a water film But some have survived in spaceSome have been spilled on the moontossed carelessly in the lunar dust They’re ‘dead’ there of courseBut a well-aimed droplet from a droppermight well reanimate…
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Yang Got UBI Right for Once
For the most part, the campaign of Andrew Yang has cooked up that perfect blend of inspiring, vaporware, and buzzwords we’ve come to expect from both the business community and the gold rush cities of California. Buzzwords because naming a new radioactive isotope does not negate the power a Dyson sphere (advanced solar panels) hold…
