Tuesday, August 25, 2020

THE FIRST CASE OF COVID-19 IN THE United States

 IT WAS ON JAN. 20, 2020 IN WUHAN, CHINA


FROM THE New England JOURNAL OF MEDICINE:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2001191


https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2001191


SEE MY NOTES FROM MY JOURNAL DATED AUGUST 25, 2020


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Covid's affect on your mental health:   https://www.heraldopenaccess.us/openaccess/ncovid-19-could-determine-your-death-date-the-associated-mental-health-crisis-in-an-uncertain-world-a-narrative-review

THE LONG ARM OF HYPOCRISY

 Jerry Falwell, Jr. has left his post at Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA, my home state.  I vividly remember thinking how his father (Falwell, Sr.), founded the "Moral Majority," an ultra-conservative group that claimed to speak millions of Americans.   

Falwell, Jr. took over the helm of Liberty University and has been under fire for partying at Miami nightclubs for over a year.  And more recently, was entangled in a "three-way" with his wife and a handsome pool attendant that the couple met at the Fountainbleu in Miami.  Apparently the young man became intimate with Falwell's wife on a number of occasions, while Falwell watched "from a corner of the room."

President Trump has been friendly with the Falwells, who helped him get elected.  Now, they have all fallen from grace (if they ever had any).  Falwell just stepped down as president of Liberty, and Trump has been blamed for the needless deaths of Americans, due to how he minimized the Covid-19 pandemic.  Hard to believe that I remember the first COVID death eight months ago, in Washington state, I believe.  Here we are now, where over 175,000 deaths in August, 2020.  Trump had assured us that our government "was on it"; that the virus would "just magically disappear."  Now, I fear that our death toll will be one million deaths by the end of the year.

On top of it all, the Republican National Convention just started in Charlotte.  Virtually, of course, like the Democratic convention.  What is the lesson here? History will be the judge, and she won't be kind.



Friday, August 21, 2020

MUSIC FOR A GRIEVING WORLD

 "The Cicadas Make a Lullaby". by Dana


"Take Me To Church."  Hoozier


"Like Cherry Wine."  Hoozier


"Fast Car."  Tracy Chapman


Anything by Ralph Vaughan Williams


"Stayin' Alive".  Bee Gees


"Blue."  Joni Mitchell (entire album)


"Happy."  Pharrell Williams (on YouTube:  performance at the Oscars with dancers!)


740hz for meditative healing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCOSoX2YLbw


Pianist Luke Faulkner:  https://www.lukefaulkner.com/music"



"King's Lament":  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4wuyAcHwf4


"Dream State," by Son Lux:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gerSk586VPE.


"Music and words to rid yourself of stress and anxiety."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vO1wPAmiMQ








Thursday, August 20, 2020

James Dean -- "Ride"

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU5YH4brdtA

 

beautiful images set to beautiful music

Saturday, August 8, 2020

NEXT CAR???? OR NO CAR???

https://raleigh.craigslist.org/ctd/d/raleigh-2006-kia-rio5-sx-1-owner-clean/7173472054.html


Kia Rio (note:  University Kia in Durham gives lousy service)


2018 Mirage.  https://www.carmax.com/car/19245171


Currently driving a 2019 Mirage and lovin' it.  I like the smallness, storage, rear window wiper blade, the "ledge" coming out from the rear window exterior.  This car is avail from Enterprise in Raleigh.  This car is cute, and fits me.  It is black.


Cons:  thieves like to steal black cars.  It's a little hard for me to see clearly out the front left window corner.  The car is like a steam bath on a hot day of 90 degrees.  Being black, the car may be hard to see on the road by on-coming traffic.

Sport Durst has some but they didn't return my call, so DON'T GO TO THEM!


TO DO'S:  Check safety ratings.

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Gratitude for July

1. My breath
2. Visiting my granddaughters on Facebook
3.  The bird feeder
4.  I wasn't harmed when the car was stolen
5.  Clearing my mind
6.  Durham Police
7.  Bok Choy for dinner
8.  Nice neighbors 
9.  Farm Church
10. Mali
11. The words:  "there, there"
12. Churchill
13.  Hope
14. This quote which I think I created:  "The world is full of suffering but also, the overcoming of it."
15. Tolerating distress
16.  Psalm 139
17. 46Female cardinal outside
18. Walt Whitman
19. Terry
20. Spectrum
21.Sophia
22.Rain
23. Elderberries
24. Magnesium
25. Beverly
26. the 5pm meeting
27. Franklin
28. Margot is 6 now!
29. it's cooling off
30. NEDA
31. Durham PD
32.Durham Church on July26th
33. "Bless the Lord," oh my soul
34.  Make this day a holy day
35/ All these books:  Black Mountain College
36.  Air conditioning
37. Birdie's letter
38. Morning stretches
39. Freedom from desire
40. Yoga
41. Maybe the car will benefit someone who has a sick child
42. Getting "the Yoke" back up
43. Finding old photographs
44.Christine's prayer
45. I can stand it
46. John
47. Good food to eat
48. The National Cathedral
49. Prayer

50. Patience
51. Peace
52. the power of legacy
53. the peace right here
54. view from my kitchen window
55. Margot
56. Maude
57. Freedom
58. A new computer
59, rest''
60.  memories of the car
61.Yale
62. Happiness course
63.  accompmlishments
64. deep breaths
65. France
66. Story Corps
67. Amy Tardif
68.  Sundays -- a day of rest
69. Wisdom
70. History
71.Meditation
72.Mindfulness
78. guardian angels
79. Ralph Vaughn Williams
80/ history
81.Ireland
82.the Outer Hebrides
83.  20 breaths
84. Memory
85. Memories of the Church in England
86. the song: "Cloud Topped Towers"
87. the coffee shop in Bath
88. Innocence
89.Lilly Library
90.Rubenstein Library
91.Bevery
92. the Pre-Raphaelites
93. Finn for telling me about BLM gathering on Sat.
94. going to bed soon
95.have a rental now'
96. Tch Naht Hahn
97. Rumi
98. Greece
99 my bed
100. safety