Tag: pandemic

• Give me a staff of honour for mine age

  It’s interesting how we can find ourselves immersed in Time, isn’t it? We ride in it as if we were on a bus, looking out of the windows at the world going by. We are all on a journey I suppose, but some of us at different speeds and from different locations. Well, at least […]

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  November 22, 2021

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  Age, Ageism, empathy, masks, othering, pandemic, public transit, Time

• All hoods make not monks

  Don’t you sometimes wonder what normal is? I mean is it ‘fitting in’ -being ‘average’- or is it  simply not being subject to undue attention in a supermarket checkout line? And even if you don’t ‘fit in’, suppose everybody in your family also looks like you? Does that make the whole family abnormal, or just, […]

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  November 17, 2021

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  Aarhus University in Denmark, abnormal, Aeon.co, average, Jonathan Sholl, Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault, normal, pandemic, patterns, Sara Moghaddam-Taaheri, social bubbles, social-distance

• Scaffolds

  It’s exciting to realize that, despite my age, there are so many things that I have not stopped to think about: the seemingly random encounters with anonymous people in the course of a visit to a store or waiting for a bus downtown; inconsequential interactions with strangers on a sidewalk waiting for the light to […]

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  October 13, 2021

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  Age, dogs, hidden webs, masks, pandemic, pandemic fears, patting a dog, random encounters, scaffolds, social distancing, strangers, vaccinations

• Neither here nor there

  I don’t think I’m very good at handling conflicts -I hate confrontation; I prefer the view from the top of the Bell Curve where I can safely watch the goings-on of the extremophiles in their respective antipodes. I suppose that’s why I gravitate to boundaries where, if I’m careful, I’m neither here nor there. This […]

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  July 21, 2021

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  Aeon.co, categories, Covid, face masks, history, in-groups, Marek Kohn, out-groups, pandemic, physical-distancing, The Lord of the Flies, them, us, victors, virus

• Breathing health into a stone?

  Are my emotions mine? That is, do they live inside me, or are they things that are shared -exist between me and others, in other words? Are they more the combination of genetic predisposition and situational features which are dependent on societal norms that we were taught from our early years at home and in […]

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  June 16, 2021

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  Bernice L. Hausman, Covid 19, emotions, health, iatrogenesis, Ivan Illich, Medical Nemesis, medical skepticism, medical therapeutics, medicalization, NPR, pandemic, Penn State College of Medicine, primum non nocere., TB

• Bad Samaritans?

  I suspect this is an incredibly naïve, not to mention unpopular, opinion, but I suppose in these times of plague, I should be grateful we have borders -fences that keep them out, walls that keep us safe. But I’m not. I’ve always mistrusted borders: I’ve always been suspicious of boundaries that artificialize the denizens of […]

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  March 25, 2020

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  Aeon.co, borders, boundaries, Charles Crawford, Corona virus, countries, Covid 19, Kahlil Gibran, migrants, Nationalism, nations, pandemic, Peace of Westphalia, refugees, sovereignty, Sykes-Pico agreement, territorial integrity, Thirty Years War, walls, WHO, Xenophobia