A lovely winter. Writing short stories, art journaling, lazy afternoon in soaker tub or napping with dog, repeating the writing and journaling this evening. Let it rain ๐ง๏ธ
Just watched a news segment on the ebola outbreak in Congo.
One doctor and his staff of just a few nurses suit up every day, multiple times a day, in head to toe protective gear in the blazing hot sun, to enter tents where sick and suffering ebola patients are quarantined with no available treatment, no vaccine, no cure.
It's a crisis and an incredibly dangerous situation, and yet this doctor and his staff enter these tents to bring comfort to the patients, like a 10-year boy, scared and alone in a tent.
When the doctor was asked about the toll the work takes on him, he said he does the work "with humanity."
Contrast that with the soulless billionaire and smug Republicans who gutted USAID, an organization that helped people like that doctor with vaccines, safety gear, and containment of a deadly disease.
And they gutted it with no humanity.
@gdayitsholloway Or get a cheaper rental.
Spoken by a disabled aged pensioner. Why should the pension cover high priced rental properties when a pensioner can choose a place they can afford.
The Australian jewish association
Up in arms about Grace Tame's appointment by the ABC.
Well the ABC thankfully can make its appointments without your approval
Thank you very much.
Grace will do an excellent job congratulations ABC
Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.
Australia paid for the latest technology, and tRump will rip us off, as he rips of everyone, and send AU outdated junk ready for the scrap heapโthat's if we get anything at all. It's going to take the US a century to undo the devastating damage they have done to their reputation around the world. No one trusts the US anymore.
Q: How does the US avoid the exorbitant costs of decommissioning old nuclear submarines?
A: Sell them to Australia for $4.2b and call it โstreamlining.โ
#AUKUS
You are muddling up Muslim and Sikhs, two different religions. And yes, Sikhs are religiously required to carry a curved, sword-like dagger known as a kirpan. It is one of the "Five Ks" (articles of faith) mandated by the tenth Sikh Guru in 1699 to represent a commitment to spirituality, justice, and the defense of the weak. They can carry a 'token, safe one.
When people ask me the best thing about living in ๐ฆ๐บ, itโs the birds. All day, every day, and so many different typesโฆitโs hard not to find beauty all around you ๐ฆโค๏ธ
On phone to youngest daughter about picking up some cream and fruit pastries at the weekend. Asked grandson what fruit he would like in his.
His reply.. pornogranite.
I say what? He says pornogranite..
Ffs. Do you mean pomegranate?
Thats what I said gran ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
A warm but cloudier start to Friday for many, though brightening up as the morning goes on ๐ฅ๏ธ
Unsettled in the northwest, with showers and longer spells of rain ๐ฆ๏ธ
Some showers moving into central and southern areas later โ