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Achtung Maggots: CovidSurvivalCoach
WE ARE ALL WEAVING THE FUTURE PLANET
This Weaver Bird has woken up and she is hoping all the birds – seeders and feeders are busy getting to know themselves better and keeping an eye out on neighbours in need. This Weaver Bird is paying attention and thinking how she can continue to self-isolate and continue to maintain social distance and not go off her rocker!!! A challenge that comes second nature to introverts but is very challenging for the extrovert. Some of us forget to eat, some forget to move. How bad? We can stretch for 5 minutes 3 times a day! So this Weaver Bird wants you to know that while things are strange, even scary, remember, this is a time of a great world shift in energy. It happened in the 1960s after the Mad Men time of the 1950s. But this is not a movie. This is not the Truman Show or Eternal Spotless of Whatever Mind. This is not a book. We are not made of paper neither are we made of plastic. We have to clean up our act. Regardless of how this VIRUS started, in China the professionals have succeeded in flattening their curve. Look at the worlds’ POSITIVE results in the charts and remind yourself how quickly the majority of people can recover from what is in effect a FLU. China stopped taking all the rubbish of the world, so they have in effect lead us to this challenge – regardless of what you think politically, montetarily or otherwise. So where is all the trash going in the States? Listen to a 5-minute report on this on NPR . But this Weaver Bird would say, Buy less crap, Eat less crap. Consume less crap. Refine your life. Dine. Drink wine. Drink water. Drink whatever. Drink less. Declutter. Minimise. Use less space indoors and more space outdoors. Motivate. Hibernate. Infiltrate. CONNECT WITH OTHERS by whatever means you have. But limit talk. Think more. Blah Blah Blah. We all know the truth about ourselves and that’s all we need to know. We are the universe. We are our own Gods and Gurus. We are the future. Right now, 3.4 million desperate Americans have applied for monies promised by their government but at the same time hospitals in New York are still pleading for protective wear……… 3.4 million.
What we can do for ourselves? CovidSurvivalCoach
We have to face the music. We have to buy sensibly and learn to grow and cook things – be they craft, food, art or ideas. Whatever is our leaning. Things are changing. We are getting used to this new normal. There are very sad stories flooding in from all over the world but there are also AMAZING stories of people supporting people. Our Irish Healthcare System for the first time ever has merged. Public and Private hospitals are one. This is fantastic news. Doctors, nurses, orderlies, cooks, cleaners all continuing to present to work. So, the Weaver Bird imagines that reading the HSE Corona Virus Guidelines could be a good idea. Thousands of medical staff here in Ireland have come out of retirement and come home from abroad to fight this pandemic. We can do this. We shall overcome this. We can lean on each – from a distance, of course.
“We are all individual, not together and never alone. We are all connected and part of this universe.”
Amy Redmond, written in NYC in 1994 on an old electric typewriter someone lent her.
Today’s Anti-Social Media Message
from Singing Sister Mary Josephine who tells us all to keep washing our hands and to read between the lines, always.
Sr. Mary Josephine was actually unavailable on the zoom as she is zooming about her house cleaning little by little, as she doesn’t want to do her feckin back in again, she is also getting organised online like the rest of the world but we did nab her on the phone…..
“I’m a bit rusty alright but I’m not afraid to leave the nunnery, go back to school and grab some of those new skills. Or actually, I might even lose this old bad habit and down the line when that feckin curve is flattened and if I have any skin left on my hands, I might do a bit of responsible travel,” she winks in a curiously gamy fashion for a nun – perhaps she had a nip of brandy?!). “Yah, I might even go to one of those free online universities and do a bit of thinking for meself.”
So after interviewing her here is what this Weaver Bird extrapolated:
Technology Self-Check #CovidSurvivalCoach
You’ve got to monitor your own use of technology. You rule it. It does not rule you. Check once a day for updates to focus you to do your best to keep yourself together each day. That is all we can do.
Media Self-Check #CovidSurvivalCoach
Listening to the news once a day, that should be enough – ah sure have a peek at the headlines of your favourite writers but limit your CONSUMPTION of NewMedia as it is developed only based on the negative slant in order to boost ratings, get clicks. Shock jock, bullshit journalism, not matter what the politics.
Social Media Self-Check #CovidSurvivalCoach
A lot of people are getting their news through this God-blasted anti-social media nonsense and a a few people are making all the money. Habit is the great deadener as our Mr. Beckett with the scraggly face has said. It is time to break our bad habits, god knows, I try all the time.
Mindset Self-Check #CovidSurvivalCoach
This is NOT a time for choosing sides or playing stupid spin city games with friends or foes on anti-social media. Let’s save this DATA for what is really important. THE FUTURE OF MOTHER NATURE. Forget the ISTS and the ISMS. This is a time, to pause and reflect and recollect ourselves. In order to be really free, we must be in perfect harmony with the way things are, this is not an idea, this is reality. You have seen it. You know this. I know this. The master masters nature, not in the sense of conquering it but in becoming it.
FOR NOW, Let’s attempt to give up all concepts, judgements and desires and allow our minds to grow naturally compassionate.
GET OUT IN NATURE WHEN YOU CAN FOR SHORT PERIODS – NATURE CAN BE LOOKING AT A WEED BURSTING THROUGH CEMENT – for now. WE ARE HERE.
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