by PJColando | May 18, 2021 | blog post, Uncategorized
The Facebook posts and text messages from vaccinated friends arrive daily, reading like verbiage from brave explorers in Gulliver’s Travels. Some friends are elated; others groused: the food had to be pre-ordered before we entered Angel Stadium and neither it...
by PJColando | May 3, 2021 | blog post, Uncategorized
What creative endeavors became casualties of COVID and it’s resultant pandemic in your life last year? What succumbed to the over-arching need to survive? The beaded bracelets shown in the photo below show two of the pastimes that disappeared from my life:...
by PJColando | Apr 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
Somehow, somewhere the notion of ‘agree to disagree’ took a nosedive? Or maybe a hard turn right. Maybe it began with Rush Limbaugh’s strident and coarse discourse? He’s gone, but not forgotten for his adverse impact… was his first name...
by PJColando | Nov 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
“Thirty days hath November. April, June, and September. February alone has 28 – let’s celebrate my birthday with a corona-vaccine shot! Well, tomorrow is December 1. I prayed for COVID to be over by Christmas – ’twas all I wanted. But,...
by PJColando | Nov 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
I used to eschew chores that were never over and done. Recycled tediousness, like making the bed. Washing dishes, doing laundry. A need for meticulousness that was never seen. Necessary to health certainly, yet – in the absurd year of COVID that 2020 has been...
by PJColando | Nov 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
Humans tend to fall into a trap of thinking that well-being is a zero-sum game. Disasters rip away the fallacy of self-reliance, to which Americans are prone. Disasters have laid bare our utter dependence on one another. We’ve experienced this before/after...
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