I’m sure many of you have seen this, but my wife and I just watched it again.
From 2016:
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/extras/seriously
Darius
On Jan 9, 2021, 4:52 PM -0800, Glenna Hanley <ghanley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, wrote:
Oh so sorry. I just realized I have repeated myself on the Capitol attack .
Sorry. I need to get off my computer for a few hours. Been on here all day
for Zoom meetings,FB, online this and online that. Too much!!
------ Original Message ------
From: "Glenna Hanley" <ghanley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: daveworld@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; daveworld@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 1/9/2021 8:49:38 PM
Subject: [daveworld] Re: Trudging Through The Petri Dish
I was never too sure because there was a year's delay in getting a proper
diagnosis, but I think the cause of the rotator cuff injury was backpacking
in New Zealand. I had a bad habit of grabbing my backpack and just slinging
it over my right shoulder and not balancing it properly on both shoulders.
I didn't have those frame type things you see that balance the weight
better. And when I got home from NZ I decided I wanted to be a tennis star
and started taking tennis lessons. It was a short-lived ambition and I soon
had to give it up (Besides I only was good with the back hand and
apparently you can't play a full game of tennis using only backhand shots.)
My work as a newspaper reporter also aggravated the situation. My days -and
lots of nights-were spent either taking notes or typing on the computer
keyboard. Lots of tension there so that was no help. Eventually I found a
really good physiotherapist who got me going in the right direction.
I have had arthritis since I was 28 or 29. But I have been lucky. It was
usually not severe enough to interfere with my way of life. However in the
last couple of years it has really ratcheted up , hands the worst, and
starting to interfere with tasks and beginning to present some daily living
challenges.
In yoga, as one example, I have lost a lot of range of motion in my knees.
So when I sit cross-legged now my knees are way up off the floor. And there
are a few positions that I can't do now-trying to think of the names but I
think one was pigeon pose maybe. Anyway some yoga is better than none at
all.
Sorry if this is boring everyone else in DW. Just nice to talk about
something else besides Wednesday's insurrection on the Capitol.
Lots of Canadians upset about this in case you were wondering. Another
group I am in (Unitarians) have been posting lots. One person said we
shouldn't be paying so much attention to the US news. Boy, everybody was
all over the poor guy. But really people are upset and just want to talk,
or write about it. We can't gather in groups in the pandemic so people need
an outlet. A couple of people phoned me because they know I am into
politics and said they just needed to talk to someone.
Thing is we have those same groups here, white supremacists, neo-Nazis,
conspiracy theorists. And I think it is the Qanon group that is headed by a
Canadian. So this could happen in our capital too-and our 94-year-old Queen
won't be coming to protect us.
------ Original Message ------
From: "Marya F" <maryaf@xxxxxxxxx>
To: daveworld@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 1/9/2021 7:44:03 PM
Subject: [daveworld] Re: Trudging Through The Petri Dish
Glenna,
Yay Adriene! (My Rocky interpretation)
Wow — our shoulder injuries sound identical. I have arthritis, too.
I am currently a bit of a bursitis queen (all how). Right elbow, right
shoulder, left hip, left knee.
It’s so weird. I’m trying many remedies... but it’s all slow moving.
Literally.
xo, m
On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 5:15 PM Glenna Hanley <ghanley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Oh my goodness Marya. I also discovered Adrienne's yoga on You Tube.
I am accustomed to going to the gym three mornings a week, two
classes are strength and one yoga class. Went I went Christmas
shopping I discovered what no gym classes since March has done to my
body. I was shopping less than an hour and started getting terrible
pains through my midriff. I used to get this pain ages ago and now I
realize it disappear some time after I started my gym routine. (about
10 years now). I think it has something to do with core strength. So
now I am trying to build my own strength training course at home as
well as do online yoga because there are no classes in my gym during
the pandemic. .And now our province is having another wave of COVID
and it is worse than last spring.
Also had rotator cuff injury with bursitis and something else-maybe
arthritis. It was not diagnosed for a year so it took a long time and
a lot of physiotherapy to get it right. Still ocassionally get pain
in that shoulder.but now I think it is just plain old arthritis.
About the storming of the Bastille (Capitol Hill) really I think some
of those people have been watching too much of the history channel.
Scaling the walls, did I see grappling hooks? They obviously planned
that for some good theatre. They could have just gone around the
building and in the front door like the rest of the nut cases. It
would be laughable if it wasn't just so sad and tragic.
In another email list I am on one or two people felt we Canadians
should not waste so much time watching US news, Trump and the
invasion of the Capitol. If my fellow Canadians don't think that
couldn't happen here they are sadly ignorant. We are all part of the
same economic system. Whenever our Prime minister gets in trouble it
usually involves his high flying, wealthy, elitist friends. When
Hillary Clinton used that term "basket of the deplorables" that was
what turned the lights on for me. It's all about the 1 per cent and
the people on the other end of that scale. Well that's not the whole
of it. But we also have our white supremacists and anti-democracy ,
anti-black, anti-immigrants, anti-everything, mirror images of what
you have in the US.
I just hope there won't be a repeat on inauguration day
because-selfishly- that's my birthday.
------ Original Message ------
From: "Marya F" <maryaf@xxxxxxxxx>
To: daveworld@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 1/8/2021 5:08:32 PM
Subject: [daveworld] Re: Trudging Through The Petri Dish
I know a handful of people who've had covid, but two of them are
true long haulers. They had knock-'em-down symptoms for over 10
weeks each. Both are still battling parts of it, with one affected
by short-term memory loss. Both were very vibrant, robust people
before getting sick. Also, both are late 40s or older. But the one
who is older, his teen-age daughter also got it and is also a long
hauler.
This to me is kind of terrifying. On top of that, (me = cap'n
obvious) we don't know what the long-term implications are.
I am both fed-up-to-here angry with dummies believing the
right-wing crapola and sad for them. It's not pity I feel, but
genuine disappointment for them. What makes them so susceptible to
believing the hogwash? And I am fed-up-to-here furious with their
pastors, leaders, and news agencies that fill them with lies. Those
people I hold fully accountable.
What a fucked up week in the states. Fucked up beyond belief. I am
so disheartened. So disgusted. And feel pretty much like there is
nothing I can do beyond what I do, do. Ha. Doo doo. Man, that is
where my brain is at. Child brain.
On the plus side, I just finished my first week of yoga. I've been
away from it for many years (like 10 years) and have suffered a few
injuries (including one this autumn that I am still healing from --
torn rotator cuff and shoulder bursitis). So I can't do all the
yoga, but what I can do feels so good. I'm doing the free Yoga with
Adriene program on YouTube. OMG. I love it so much and she is
awesome. I highly, highly recommend it to everyone. I feel taller
and I feel...cleaner some how? Must be all that cleansing breath.
I don't think I could eat anything called Chicken Bones. Gross!
I just finished reading/working Writing Down the Bones and that
book kind of re-awoken (is that a word? again, child brain) a flame
in my soul -- in how to live life in general. I journal a lot. For
me, that is my process place. So, that is where all the work went
into.
Finally -- I really like facebook. I really dislike the company. I
really don't trust Zuckerberg, but I am in a very cozy bubble of
smart, creative people. Almost everyone else has been weeded out. I
guess I share that to say, you can make it a lovely place to be. So
many people there bring light into my day. ESPECIALLY SPRING.
Spring -- I love your FB so much.
xo all!
m.
On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 12:19 PM Glenna Hanley
<ghanley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks Spring for that bit of nostalgia. I used to work at a
newspaper in St. Stephen, NB and our office was just down the
street from Ganong's candy making plant. My favourite day was
peppermint paddy day. The whole of downtown would smell like
peppermint. The air was delicious, almost erotic.
------ Original Message ------
From: "Derek Seaton" <seatons@xxxxxxxxx>
To: daveworld@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 1/8/2021 3:51:05 PM
Subject: [daveworld] Re: Trudging Through The Petri Dish
I remember eating chicken bones as a kid, but didn't realise
that was what they were called. I can attest to them being
uniquely delicious!
:D
On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 4:07 PM Spring (Stacy) Dew
<springdew@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/chicken-bones-candy-ganong-st-stephen-1.4454303
These.
Are.
Fascinating.
Gonna have to get me some now.
I think it is known now that covid antibodies only
continue to be produced for about two months after you
get infected. After that, there are other aspects of
immunity you might retain, but people are definitely and
provably getting second covid infections. My friend
Michelle is one of them.
These days, every time I reach for bagged greens, I
remember all the E coli recalls and just don't. I get a
cucumber. Or a squash. Or something. I can trust my veg
washing prowess on a cucumber. Not so confident I can
wash a lettuce well enough.
So, no Instacart for you, then, Scott? I really like
Instacart rather a lot.
Spring
On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 6:55 PM Kathy Johnson
<twoshoes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My phone has a setting that reminds me how much time
I've spent on FB, Twitter, or Instagram. It's a
godsend.
Otherwise I, like most people, will be on longer than
I intended.
I asked myself how much time in a day I wanted to
spend looking at those sites, and decided 30 minutes
total.
That's only 10 minutes each and you know what, I
don't notice myself feeling as if I have missed
anything important.
A friend has given me numerous colouring books and
though I don't find them all that relaxing (my neck
and shoulders don't need that posture, apparently),
they are great to have handy during TV commercials,
which I've come to abhor.
Sorry to hear about your niece. That must be hard;
nieces are dear.
xo
Kate
On 2021-01-06 9:30 am, Glenna Hanley wrote:
I have a love/hate relationship with Facebook. It
is a big time waster and the worst thing I do is,
when I am on my way to bed and turning off my
computer, I will just check in to see if there is
anything big on FB. An hour later, and it's now
midnight, I am still on there. A bad habit I hope
to break in 2021.
However I had a niece who just died on Dec. 2. She
lived in Nova Scotia and at that time we were not
allowed to cross the border from New Brunswick.(and
we are back in that phase again) So FB did give us
an opportunity to share our grief a bit through an
FB family group that my son had set up. Still, not
the same as having a big wake and funeral, which is
what would be normal for my family.
Speaking of colouring reminds me that I got
colouring books for a gift at Christmas three or
four years ago. I only used them for one winter.
This might be a good time to drag them out again.
Thanks for the reminder Steve.
------ Original Message ------
From: "Steve Crane" <steve.crane@xxxxxxxxx>
To: daveworld@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 1/6/2021 2:26:33 AM
Subject: [daveworld] Re: Trudging Through The Petri
Dish
Cheryl-Lee (who calls herself Cheryl now), one of
my nieces in the UK (Wales) got COVID and was
very sick for a long time but that is as much as
I know. Her mother Anita (also in UK but England)
was the only one of Mela's four siblings she
still communicated with until somewhere in early
2020 when she upset Mela by saying Mela had all
the surgeries she had because she chose to and
should stop complaining. In the last month or two
they have started communicating again but only
very superficially. It seems that if they get
into any history or conversational depth they set
each other off and go incommunicado again. So I
just hear the odd bit about Chezz's (nickname)
condition which is apparently improving slowly.
Sometimes I wonder if I should have stayed on
Facebook so I would get info like this first
hand, but then I think of all the crap that's on
there. Mela also got off Facebook when I did, but
a few months ago went back on. She is being
conscious of avoiding toxic groups that used to
upset her. Who would think that people in art
groups (colouring, etc.) would be so nasty to
each other. Anyway she is now on some
paint-by-numbers groups that seem to be less
toxic; paint-by-numbers being her new passion and
the only art she is really doing right now.
You hear the statistics relating to COVID but
it's all just numbers and seems rather unreal
until you see news reports like Durban
bride-to-be and both parents die of Covid-19,
three days apart, that really bring home just how
dangerous it is. We think of people with
pre-existing health conditions being at risk, but
really anyone is; it's like a lottery with really
bad prizes. No telling whether you'll get it, and
if you do, how bad it will be.
It fascinates me how much of a convenience
culture there is in the US. Reading about
terrible shredded lettuce shortages just makes me
shake my head; they don't even sell shredded
lettuce here. Seemingly you can make your own
from a head of lettuce with just a knife, but
that's a terrible waste of minutes, so it needs
to be bought ready to go. We get a small
selection of prepared vegetables here; coleslaw
for instance but I still make my own from time to
time. I will admit to using a food processor to
do the shredding of red cabbage and grating of
carrots when I do though.
Steve Crane
about.me/stevecrane
On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 at 06:41, Glenna Hanley
<ghanley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
And another thing, I don't think we know yet if
getting COVID does provide immunity. But there
is so much bad information out there on the net
and social media.
------ Original Message ------
From: "Scott Ransom" <mr.ransom@xxxxxxxxx>
To: daveworld@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 1/5/2021 8:26:17 PM
Subject: [daveworld] Re: Trudging Through The
Petri Dish
My sister is convinced that she already had
covid, although she's never been tested, and
therefore "can't get it again", and therefore
is running around like covid is no big deal.
I think the only reason she even wears a mask
is because "they" make her. I've tried
explaining to her that she could still be
giving it to people, and maybe being so
la-di-da with other peoples health might not
be the best of choices, but it's like talking
to a kitchen table. She's got all sorts of
medical theories, although her professions
have tended towards "hair stylist" and "house
cleaner" rather than epidemiologist, nurse or
even first-aid provider. But she DOES watch
super far right "news" channels like OANN and
Newsmax (also so she can proudly say she
doesn't "just watch Fox"), and they keep her
informed yes they certainly do at least they
say they do.
Scott
On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 3:45 PM Glenna Hanley
<ghanley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have anxiety all the time Marya about my
brother. He has COPD and other health
issues. He struggles to breathe on good
days. He is home a lot but his wife runs
here, there and everywhere. She seems to
think he is safe as long as he is at home.
She doesn't seem to realize she could take
it home with her.
Our province just went back into the orange
phase today. It is not the full lock down
(which is the red phase) but we are
supposed to stay at home as much as
possible.
As for food, I am actually tired of eating
chocolates and chicken bones (this is a
sweet, sugary pink coating with a cinnamon
filling made by a local and 100 plus year
old company called Ganongs. I don't know
why this candy is called chicken bones). I
am ready for a bland diet of potatoes,
pasta and pancakes and stuff like that.
I didn't know anyone personally who had
Covid until my daughter-in-law's niece got
sick. But they live in Norway so not anyone
close where I live. She is 18 or 19. What
is scary is now we are beginning to hear
abut 40- year -olds dying from it.
------ Original Message ------
From: "Marya F" <maryaf@xxxxxxxxx>
To: daveworld@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 1/5/2021 2:53:24 PM
Subject: [daveworld] Re: Trudging Through
The Petri Dish
Gahhh. Tacos sound great (and/or it's
heading towards lunch time).
Stay safe out there. I'm probably overly
worried about this new strain. But I am
worried. Mostly about my mom who just
allows herself to be exposed. She thinks
she's being safe, but seriously. She is
still going into her office every day
(she and my stepfather own the place.
They go in as do support staff and
construction workers.). Heavy sigh.
One of our friends is a GP at Kaiser in
LA. One of their ER docs died this
morning of covid.
I'm so ready for this to be over.
In the meantime, tacos!
Marya
(new year and hovering around inbox zero,
so not so overwhelmed by email at this
moment.)
On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 10:47 AM Scott
Ransom <mr.ransom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Well, I decided that while I could
technically last many more months
without going to the store, they would
be months of probably nutritionally
deficient filler like ramen and
spaghetti. Which is fine for a while,
but not really a good long-term
lifestyle. And so, rather than die of
malnutrition instead of covid, I
decided this morning around 4:30 to
head for the supermarket.
While I'm sure clouds of sticky viral
mist are now common outside my door, I
think what must have been freak weather
conditions allowed me to slip between
or around them. Of course, I may just
be thinking of the familiar clouds of
the old virus. The new, evolved, and
much more infectious clouds are
invisible without infrared goggles, and
Amazon sold out of those, like,
immediately. Although I bathed myself
in x-rays and a light spray of sulfuric
acid when I got home, we'll still have
to see in five to ten days if food was
worth it. It may not have been.
Taco's tonight, though. Also, they
were dumping Christmas candy, so I may
have overbought on waxy holiday themed
chocolates as well.
Scott
