{LeVar Burton: “Whether you know me from “Roots,” "Star Trek," or "Reading Rainbow," the freedom to read and learn has been a central part of my life. Now, our freedoms are being threatened by the dangerous rise of book bans and censorship in our country.}
This is the first bit of what was written to announce his partnering with Move On because of the current spate of book banning. I know him from all three, as a matter of fact.
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If you’re a fan of pumpkin spice, ….
Bog snorkeling is a thing.
A totem pole stolen in the late 1920s and sold to a museum in Scotland is being returned to its actual owners.
How the National Hurricane Center predicts a storm’s path.
I was hustled south to make sure my mother had me there for her birthday. This is all I have for this week.
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Yes, I’m tracking the news. No, I’m not going to comment on it. I don’t want to start frothing at the mouth.
The move to the smaller place where my mother could keep her cat was not a success. She wasn’t even there a full three weeks. She had a bad fall and ended up in the hospital for several days — last Tuesday evening, she was moved from the hospital into hospice care. One of the women who did the caregiving before we moved her took the cat — at the hospice, they can’t have animals living with them, but pets can come visit, and I’m sure my mother will get to see her cat.
The first I heard that my second and son-in-law were here was my brother texting that the three of them were about five minutes out from the hospital. Ask me if I was surprised.
The doctor my niece consulted doesn’t think my mother will last much longer. She turned 92 on Friday, and slept through her birthday and the Saturday. It won’t be a surprise when it happens. The hospice has been adopted by a cat that shows up in a patient’s room when the patient is soon to die. I agree with my firstborn that it is more because it was raining that the cat came inside the building and more because my second the cat-whisperer was in her grandmother’s room that the cat went in there.
My middle nephew’s youngest forgot her stuffed raccoon at the hospital, so it was sent to the hospice with my mother. She loved it.
Otherwise, the grandkids are trading off sick and their mother has been exhausting herself trying to help with my mother and get her own work done as well. Me, I’m making progress on the decluttering I’ve been trying to work up the oomph for for months.
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I only rarely use my laptop, but I brought it south with me, just in case. I remembered my password! I also got this posted.
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