I’m 90, have a-fib and am post-heart attack, and headed in the wrong direction. I’m purchasing more books than giving away, and the files kept for my blog overflow my containers. I quit my poetry group due to impaired hearing, but retain hundreds of poems shared by members over the years.
I’m trying to whittle down my files–way down–so here goes dumping:
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The man who mocked childless cat ladies, suggested stepmothers aren’t real parents, and suggested a national abortion ban was J.D. Vance, our vice president at the time.
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In 2018 the president said the soldiers who get the Congressional Medal of Honor are “either in very bad shape because they’ve been hit so many times by bullets, or they’re dead.” He refused to visit the graves of America’s war dead in France and called them “suckers” and “losers.” He was quoted as saying he didn’t want to be seen with amputee veterans because “It doesn’t look good for me.”
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Continually flipping a burger reduces its cook time by up to nearly a third compared with the single-flip method, theoretical calculations suggest, according to Jean-Luc Thiffeault at the U of Wisconsin-Madison.
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A Repeat Poem:
LIFE METAPHOR
A.I. oh my, I’ll cry!
We were gifted somehow
As caretakers of life
On Earth. Toss a penny,
Save or destroy.
The question–What would
We do with all our power:
Make or shake or desecrate.
We lost control and as the
nasty pus of greed triumphs,
now steaming towards 2050,
What will be will be.

-Nan