393 days of celery juicing, 196 days of digital mass and social distancing

Celebrations for birthdays are held outdoors. Those who live together can hug and cuddle. Those who don’t are content to giving quick, short hugs. Happy happy advanced birthday anak! May you keep thriving and living your life in service of others. We love you so much!

The #CoronaVirus virus has claimed now over 200,000 deaths in America. Can you visualize that? 1/6 of those who attended Obama’s inauguration at over a million.

It is dreadful to think that the narrative of ‘America is great’ means we as a country has the highest transmission rates of all countries, over 200 in the world, according to oneworldindata.org.

Our over 20% transmission rate is at par with Brazil, India and Russia. How did we get there? We have a 45th US President who knew the gravity of the virus but lied to the American people to play it down as a hoax and said ‘it would go away in two weeks.’

Now on our 196 days of shelter in place, wearing masks, doing digital zoom meetings and only NYC thus far which been able to open school and children can attend in-person. Why? Their testing is now up at 95, 000 from a prior capacity of 500 a day. Transmission rate is less than 1, at 0.87%, minimal rate.

Photos include Northern Lights in Iceland, an emaciated hungry Arctic Polar Bear and a well fed Arctic Polar Bear, including a metronome keeping tab of the time we have towards climate change reversal.

Countdown to earth is ticking, in a metronome in NYC, as climate change reversal is truly much more urgent. We all need a change of behaviors to transcend our collective extinction in this planet.

Message is grim as our cities are spontaneously burning from 11,000 lightning fires and thoughtless immature irresponsible actions of using firecrackers for gender reveal parties that lit up acres of forests.

#climatechangereversal#ecogreenfriendly#sierraclub

But, if we all do our concerted actions of taking care of Mother Earth, we may yet get to see Patagonia, at the southwest part of South America, a ‘sparsely inhabited region shared by Chile and Argentina’, photographed and preserved in a book by Noel Casaje.

Noel Casaje’s Patagonia:Landscapes from the Edge of the World photography book captures serenity, the views beyond the icy peaks, the reveal of the first light or behind the dark shadows , the brush strokes of clouds, unfolding the beauty of stunning orange tree leaves or wild yellow flower blooms. The adjectives simply roll out of my pen as his images both transport me and allow me to imagine the Lord’s magnificent grandeur.

In Noel Casaje’s lyrical words: “to be able to capture scenes of incredible beauty, available only in the cracks of time, and preserve them for posterity’s sake,” he guides his readers to hope, to see beyond, to images that conquer darkness, dead trees into the flow of the first light. We need not be in the dark foreever. We can emerge with the Lord’s light.-@Prosy Delacruz, 9/21/2020.