The further adventures of the WMIT (World’s Most International Tooth) Trigger Warning #1: if you have a Y-chromosome a weak stomach teeth, you may …
How I Became a Medical Tourist (Part 3) #humor #MedicalTourism #dogs
Another instalment from the wonderful and “wandrous” medical tourist Barb Taub. Please click the link above to read more about that international tooth!
Dark days. In the past few days, news from Israel has been devastating. The past months of war in the Ukraine have been catastrophic. The past years …
Thanks, Peri. I needed that. #new release #PandemicTherapist #dog #humor
Peri, Barb Taub’s certified canine pandemic therapist has published a book! I hope you click on the link above to read the post and review. I have greatly enjoyed Barb’s previous books and I’m sure Oh My Dog will be just as hilarious. Congratulations, Barb!
It really looks as if the federal government is going to tighten our pandemic travel rules, a lot. The prime minister is being pushed that way, and, I think, is leaning that way. That means no travelling at all, either nationally or internationally.
Although I’ve hit a bit of a patience wall, I’m in favour of it. I want to do what’s in the best interests of the vulnerable. And the sooner we hunker down, the more we can control this wretched virus, and together with the vaccines, that means …
… going to a restaurant! Inside!
What else?
Meeting with family and friends! And being able to hug!
No masks! Hot, soggy, fogging-up-the-glasses uncomfortable. If I never have to wear a mask again, I’ll be very thankful.
And lastly, but definitely not leastly, just being able to live without covid. Without worrying about loved ones, without thinking of all the safeties you have to do to go to the grocery store, … without worrying about my son, the paramedic.
I was lately reminded that nothing lasts forever, including a pandemic. So yes, this, too, shall pass.
We have to continue to be patient. And safety conscious. And thankful for essential workers of all kinds.
It will end.
What do you look forward to the most?
Although I work under the Northern Lights, I have resisted publishing photos of them …
… but this one, with its starry and reflective accompaniment, is a stunner and much too good to ignore.
Taken by photographer Beckey Lee and first published by National Geographic (https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/proof/2017/04/your-shot-unbelievable-landscapes/), it embodies all the romanticism of that luminescent northern glow. In fact, many people believe that conceiving under the Aurora Borealis will imbue the child with wisdom.
If you’re interested in seeing them for yourself, there are many choices. Here’s the site for Yellowknife, NWT tourism: https://extraordinaryyk.com/
Thinking about travelling somewhere makes me wistful. Not that I need to (or want to) travel right now, but the idea of that freedom … I hope that we will soon have this pandemic under control, and such things as seeing the northern lights will become possible again. This weird perception that I’m “unfree” is strange. I’m not, not at all, but I feel an illogical and strong sense of entrapment. This must be my limbic brain kicking in. New normal? Hah! New abnormal is more like it.
How about you? Are you feeling trapped?
Happy week. 🙂
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