Day 2898: 60 year die-hard fan.

"LA78": junk mail collage, photo & digital.

Want music?

 

Click here for Jacob Collier, Rest Your Weary Head,

then click back on this blog tab or here to listen as you browse, or not?

Being a 60 year die-hard fan of artist Corita Kent, 

I jumped at the chance to download a copy of this poster for free.

You can too, if you hurry, for a limited time, 

it's as simple as ordering it for free!

#GetWithTheAction – download and print this poster 

featuring a piece by Corita from 1976. 

In Corita's spirit of love, hope, and justice, 

use this poster to champion change: 
carry it to a demonstration, display it in your window, 
or share via social media!
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Download from the link below. Available for a limited time. 

Tag Corita Art Center and share how you use the poster!

https://bit.ly/3fRh6vd

the tough truth of it ...

For people who don't understand what it means 

to be on a ventilator but want to take the chance to find out:

For starters, it is NOT an oxygen mask that is put over the mouth while the patient comfortably lies down and reads journals.

Ventilation for Covid-19 is painful intubation that goes 

down your throat and stays there until you live or you die.

It is done during anesthesia for 2 to 3 weeks without moving, 

often upside down, with a tube deposited from your mouth up to the air pipe and allows you to breathe to the rhythm of the lung machine.
The patient can't talk or eat or do anything natural - 

the machine keeps you alive. Discomfort and pain they feel from this will mean that medical experts must administer sedatives 

and pain meds to ensure pipe tolerance as long as the machine is needed. It's like being in an artificial coma. After 20 days from this treatment, a young patient loses 40% muscle mass and gets trauma in the mouth or voice cords, as well as possible lung or heart complications. It is for this reason that old or already weak people can't stand treatment and die. Many of us are in this boat ... 
so stay safe if you don't want to take the chance to end up here. 

This is NOT the flu! They put a tube in your stomach, either through your nose or skin for liquid food, a sticky bag around your butt to collect diarrhea, one to collect urine, an IV for liquids and meds... an A-line to monitor your BP it is completely dependent on finely calculated with doses, teams of nurses, CRNA and MA 

to move your limbs every two hours and lie on a carpet 

circulating ice-cold liquid to help reduce your 104° degree temp.

All of this while your loved ones cannot even come to visit. 

You will be alone in a room with your machine. Not your mother, your father, your son, daughter, wife or husband allowed in.

But... wearing a mask is uncomfortable and humiliating.

• A 4 min. video, Strandbeest Evolution, here.

 
• A 4-1/2 min. video, marble machine, here.

• A 5 min. video, "Nuggets", here.

• A 2 min. video on home-stay birds, here. 

Smiles for Friday ...