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I did say last Friday that I would eat crow if our regular hospice nurse returned this week. Well, I'm eating it. I was wrong. She was ill. They were giving her a long weekend off. However, her illness was one of those life is what happens when you're doing something else moments since it was totally unexpected and the company had every reason to be in a flummox when I spoke with them last Thursday (see last Friday's post.) But she sounds and feels fine now and all is well if you can discount the fact that we're waiting for someone to die. Though, truth be told, DM is so ready to die, so wanting to die and is extremely frustrated that she's lingering. (Google "blue light worms" for a current preliminary study concerning microscopic worms and the blue light they emit before death and how this may help in understanding the death process in humans.)
A lot of picks this week, starting with:
Take a look at a pin-up girl who is fat. She's cute but she's really round and, from the looks of it, quite happy. It's tough to realize in today's USA world with its theme of "you're fat and getting fatter" that there was a time when women wore curves with pride and a bag of bones was not the de rigueur look for beauty. (Look back at some of those all singing-all dancing Hollywood movies from the 1930s to see what I mean.)
And keeping with this this life is real, not Hollywood theme, go to Messy Nessy Chic's page at:
and watch the Brown sisters age over 40 years as they appear in the same posed picture first in 1975 and last in 2010. It's a lovely group of siblings which age can't wither.
We can look at a gray hair or a wrinkle, as a horror in our sophisticated, phony world but sometimes real horrors like shootings in movie houses or schools jar our complacency and a few times we get to see the aftermath of these horrors, as at:
On July 22, 2011 in Norway, a gunman targeted young people at a Labor Party camp, killing 69 of them. So often. such killings register in our brains until the next one replaces it. Photographer, Andrea Gjestvang, decided to follow the victims in this story because: “For a while it seemed like people in Norway suffered from a kind of ‘22nd of July fatigue,’ but then it is even more important to remind [people] of the fact that the survivors are real people who actually live with this experience every day,”
Take a look at her photos. Be warned, they are disturbing.
I'm beginning to think this Website Wednesday has an unintended theme for my next pick is:
You don't need an introduction to this page. What an interesting concept! Be sure to navigate around Fstoppers (FS) for more interesting topics. It's got pictures with articles to go with them. Again, be warned, at least one of the pages (pictures of the dead) does not look like it's for the faint of heart.
Let me end on something interesting and light:
IKea Hackers says of itself: IkeaHackers.net is a site about modifications on and repurposing of Ikea products. Hacks, as we call it here, may be as simple as adding an embellishment, some others may require power tools and lots of ingenuity.
As you probably know, I'm a sucker for this type of hacking like taking the frame of an old window and sticking a mirror behind it. You get all types of suggestions here with very good explanations so you know just how the hacker achieved the results.
That's it for today. See you next week.
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