This is a singular poem - the link is the poem as read by the poet (with whom I share my birthday!) -
(and this is what Shrek meant )
The Layers
Stanley Kunitz
I have walked through many lives,
some of them my own,
and I am not who I was,
though some principle of being
abides, from which I struggle
not to stray.
When I look behind,
as I am compelled to look
before I can gather strength
to proceed on my journey,
I see the milestones dwindling
toward the horizon
and the slow fires trailing
from the abandoned camp-sites,
over which scavenger angels
wheel on heavy wings.
Oh, I have made myself a tribe
out of my true affections,
and my tribe is scattered!
How shall the heart be reconciled
to its feast of losses?
In a rising wind
the manic dust of my friends,
those who fell along the way,
bitterly stings my face.
Yet I turn, I turn,
exulting somewhat,
with my will intact to go
wherever I need to go,
and every stone on the road
precious to me.
In my darkest night,
when the moon was covered
and I roamed through wreckage,
a nimbus-clouded voice
directed me:...
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Timely as to the A Block fauci discussion - this rolled up on my FB Memories from 6 years ago - All of this data is from 2020 - during the height of tracking - the gov't & other sources stopped the tracking after summer 2020 I believe. This does not reflect 2020 - now - but the media did its job to gin up fear and cause extremely hurtful decisions for society moving forward.
And yes, Covid was a very serious illness, and the resulting deaths were very sad.
So because of all the reporting and barrage of numbers, I, myself, made a spreadsheet to keep track of the data though; so I could make sense of the numbers I hear/see, gain a good perspective, and feel more at ease. I use both the covidtracking.com and WI-DHS numbers for my spreadsheet. [And my engineering training causes me to like to keep track of data and make spreadsheets. I do the same thing for local weather (and I have for many years).]
As of yesterday (7-29), WI had 0.9% of the population test/probable +results, and 0.02% have died.(Much like the US, as a whole). For ...
Hey @PeteH72 , maybe this one will end up in the funny papers too.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/petition-seeks-ban-mayor-zohran-180943230.html
