I emphatically agree with Carmen Hogan – an eloquent ambassador of diversity, anti-racism and allyship. I too was stunned at the disgusting racial slur “C**n*s*e Virus” (Biden banned such HateSpeech).. That said, it SEEMS obvious “chathampatriot” is white, making “C**n*s*e Virus” ThoughtCrime and them a Racist. BUT it’s possible theyContinue Reading
A chatham county merchant is/was displaying a sign inHis store that read- “the virus will disappear nov. 3rd”Just wondering- do you believe that? I don’t. L. Ingam Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 16:59:32 -0400 (GMT-04:00)From: lingam32443Subject: Sick sign?Continue Reading
In an offhand remark that I can only imagine was a hyperbolic rhetorical flourish, someone recently wrote here that one had “a better chance of being hit by lightning than dying of coronavirus.” According to the National Weather Service, lighting kills an average of 49 people a year in theContinue Reading
#13 Wisdom is a hard idea to understand which sounds silly when I say it. In our Rinzai Zen tradition its realization comes in the first moment of the first meditation. It’s a kind of “Whoa, stop, slowdown” notion that develops from a regular practice of various kinds of meditation. Continue Reading
I sometimes don’t like what Booko writes. This is the most beloved part of his writing. I don’t hear an appeal to the marketplace. He comes as a citizen, an ordinary man who loves to share his view of plants and lightening. In the time of coronavirus we need authenticContinue Reading
My sister recently sent an envelope full of photos our mother had kept. Mom was better than I at photographing Janet and mine’s married life and relationship over the 11 years we were together. Of course, many of you are aware that relationships in the long term literally navigate mineContinue Reading
*Masks For Many Project Invests in Talented Local Artists and in the Health of Our Community* Chatham Arts Council is announcing Masks for Many <https://www.chathamartscouncil.org/masks-for-many/>, a collective effort to partner with under-employed local artists to create cloth masks for donation to vital, vulnerable workers—especially people of color—in Chatham County. MasksContinue Reading
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 15:11:00 -0400From: “N.A. Booko” Subject: The Biggest Fool At Last! When I was a child, I spake as a child and that was many bloody blue moons ago, I did all that spaking. 1945 to be exact. The first day of April was always fun.Continue Reading
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 12:52:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Tom Glendinning Subject: Retask School Buses, Keep Bus Drivers Employed, Feed Needy Students Corona Virus School Bus Service Retask Suggested use of school buses and feeding the needy students To our Leaders: During this time our schools are closed, the busesContinue Reading
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 11:55:18 -0400 From: Salinda Dahl Subject: Re: Chatham Chatlist #6650 It worries me that any group would still encourage people to gather, at this corona virus fraught time. While music lifts the soul, thereby enhancing the immune system, gathering, at this time, does not.Continue Reading