It is for her future that I advocate a better, healthier, safer world. I am listening to her say to her grandpa: “race running first, then, music by drumming, then walk in the gardens after the reading workbook. Now, we have to babysit kids,” which are her dolls.
I am chuckling. She came in bearing 2 chocolate coins as gifts. And then said, “I am back to being a vegetarian, Grandma.
“Let’s wear our masks, socially distant and congregate outside, outdoors, and follow public health guidelines, irrespective of the poor and inappropriate example of Gavin Newsom in Maui, hobnobbing with friends, and limit to 3 households, gathering for Thanksgiving.
For me, limit to 6 folks, what they allow at a table in restaurants outdoors. Follow local city health departments as they track infections, not this Ca Governor. He needs to show morally aligned competent leadership, not succumb to his friends’ misguided pressures.
In my mass today, I heard this homily message:
“Trade your gifts. Don’t hoard them. Trade is not forcefully selling. It is a spirit of engaging with another to grow your faith. Make our faith grow – engage in lively, peaceful, respectful dialogue, allowing our faith to grow, we are not in the business of making jams and pickles.” Fr. John Cordero.
I wanted to add, we are not, repeat, not meant to be hermetically sealed canned goods, keeping our ideological beliefs inside ourselves, failing to invite new ideas from refreshing them.
We are at soaring infection rates in the states that defied masks’ wearing. In some of these states, they blindly followed the defiant, arrogant attitude from the temporary resident in the White House, whose recklessness led to 130 Secret Service to get #CoronaVirus, even his cabinet members and 24 who attended his event introducing Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
When 3 out of 10 nurses who passed away from Coronavirus are from the Filipino American community, nurses with ethics, cultural values of compassion and caring for humanity as if their family members, it breaks my heart to know that another kababayan has died from this virus.
Why? They sacrificed by immigrating here to support their families in the Philippines and they die here, selflessly caring for Americans, stricken with Coronavirus. They are our unspoken heroes and martyrs!
