tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192718134910479930.post8904395106969149036..comments2024-03-28T17:00:31.402+01:00Comments on Interim arrangements: Do what you can.Sabinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09015827501648296977noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192718134910479930.post-1272730449293551382021-08-13T23:12:56.691+02:002021-08-13T23:12:56.691+02:00Yes to all of this. I live under the flight path o...Yes to all of this. I live under the flight path of a large international airport and a small municipal airport filled with 4-seaters. I feel ashamed I have taken so many flights this year, mostly to visit my injured child. The competing desires to see our loved one in the midst of a pandemic and the suffering of the planet. California is bone dry. Every time I wash dishes, I thank the water. <br /><br />I call is cognitive dissonance, our refusal to SEE and our despair when we do see... We were warned and now here we are. Here.beth coyotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04671290135595711572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192718134910479930.post-44075599842904764452021-08-10T21:13:03.513+02:002021-08-10T21:13:03.513+02:00Oh my. The anti-vaxxers make me nuts.Oh my. The anti-vaxxers make me nuts.Secret Agent Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07564690116156754219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192718134910479930.post-58211706567529533562021-08-10T16:32:59.294+02:002021-08-10T16:32:59.294+02:00Did your friend allow his children to be vaccinate...Did your friend allow his children to be vaccinated at birth? Just curious. They sound like a beautiful family, and I am do hope that their path through covid will be gentle.37paddingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12400464105403622384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192718134910479930.post-45281042861512967212021-08-09T09:52:31.347+02:002021-08-09T09:52:31.347+02:00A 90+ year old gal I know here did finally get vac...A 90+ year old gal I know here did finally get vaccinated, wears mask reluctantly, complains about the weather disasters but, knowing we have different views, quickly states, "...but I don't believe in climate change." She doesn't want to discuss differences as says it runs up her blood pressure -- I think that's because she got frustrated when she couldn't refute the facts I gave her back when our previous prevaricating govt. leader came on the scene. <br /><br />The attitude prevailing with some that there's nothing an individual can do has been disproven by many people when it comes to issues needing to be addressed, but that's where it all starts, with an individual. No matter our situation there is always something we can do and more than we realize sometimes.Joaredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03155775053108104385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192718134910479930.post-19755565645620236142021-08-08T17:07:56.726+02:002021-08-08T17:07:56.726+02:00we're doomed. humans are destructive beasts an...we're doomed. humans are destructive beasts and selfish. whatever humans survive will be living underground because the surface will be uninhabitable, all our doing. scientists and sci-fi writers have been showing us the future for decades. I don't imagine my grandchildren will have children or if they do, theirs certainly will not. <br /><br />my dumbass brother-in-law, unvaccinated because he 'heard stuff' and listened to that instead of the experts, has covid. not bad enough to be hospitalized, yet anyway. this is why we are doomed. the man is not stupid.ellen abbotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00535475792150335186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192718134910479930.post-7188360369777918962021-08-08T16:38:47.507+02:002021-08-08T16:38:47.507+02:00Ugh. I do not envy you your evening with the anti-...Ugh. I do not envy you your evening with the anti-vaxxer.<br /><br />I honestly think the only thing that will make a meaningful difference on climate change, in the long run, is for the population of the world to diminish. We can all take less flights and do what we can to shrink our carbon footprint -- and we SHOULD do those things -- but they must be done in conjunction with lowering the population burden of the planet. How that happens, I'm not sure. It's one of those things that we can manage, or we can wait for nature to do it for us -- and that won't be pretty.Steve Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11684120060438252945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192718134910479930.post-4897443521548920522021-08-08T14:38:39.815+02:002021-08-08T14:38:39.815+02:00Aaack. That must have been hard. Aaack. That must have been hard. Colettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13929646037752189809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192718134910479930.post-2828088010505175602021-08-07T22:43:33.278+02:002021-08-07T22:43:33.278+02:00mRNA vaccines don't change DNA, but you know t...mRNA vaccines don't change DNA, but you know that. How frustrating dealing with people like this. I've only had one patient who was adamant about anti vax and I just told him that I didn't agree with him, nor did I want to argue with him. Didn't stop him though but I did speed up his encounter with me. <br /><br />I'm feeling somewhat down today, not sure why. A feeling of isolation and lack of support with our grandson maybe. We're old parents. I'm juggling daycare and work as I'm getting ready for retirement. Jack's other grandparents are interested in caring for him, except when there is a photo op. I'm feeling put upon, even though I have chosen this. Story of my life.<br /><br />Sorry, I'm rambling. I hope you're feeling better and life isn't too stressful.Pixiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01313413260127376288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192718134910479930.post-7512257337332418422021-08-07T22:09:03.495+02:002021-08-07T22:09:03.495+02:00It's true, we're all in this together, and...It's true, we're all in this together, and our little efforts at reducing our carbon footprint only makes a small impact on our planet. We must do what we can, and we must demand from those producing the most damage to CHANGE now. Just reading the words that the damage we are seeing now was produced by CO2 ten years ago, and then wondering what our earth will look like in ten years scares me so much. I always think about the first Earth Day movement 51 years ago, more than a half century. We've known for such a long time, and yet here we are.<br />I'm a little taken aback by the anthroposophy resistance to the vaccine. We are a broken species, we humans. It's hard to make sense out of anything anymore.<br />Take care there, Sabine. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192718134910479930.post-69662870762785541672021-08-07T19:52:23.258+02:002021-08-07T19:52:23.258+02:00"As Heglar put it, “the most detrimental thin..."As Heglar put it, “the most detrimental thing to climate action is this feeling that we’re all in it alone.”<br /><br />It is sad to hear that Rudolf Steiner's followers in Germany are using their community strength to take an anti-vaccine stance. Now I'm wondering if the Waldorf Schools in our community are anti-vaccine. I'd be surprised if they were. Who knows?<br /><br />https://www.whws.org/faculty-staff <br /><br />Thanks for the link to the Anna North article and the Kevin McShane cartoon.<br /><br />Here's an example of people working together over centuries I find deeply inspiring:<br /><br />https://indiancountrytoday.com/the-press-pool/ndn-collective-joins-red-road-to-dc-delivers-totem-pole-to-secretary-deb-haaland<br /><br />People who have a sense of community are able to do what they can, when they can, knowing they are supported, loved, not alone.amhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09212213177713917828noreply@blogger.com