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Sharing data
The prompt “Cooperation and Sharing” is very fitting these days as we rely on scientists all over the world cooperating and sharing. This is usually the case in the scientific community anyway, but even more important now. Countries have to share their data and statistics so scientists and subsequently politicians
Gratitude for some help
I devour the stories about scientists working together to find a cure, a vaccine and improve tests for the novel coronavirus. My hope is for a effective vaccine to be made available in record time — two years or under. And how I wish that the horror of this world
Attitude Adjustment
Pandemic This Coronavirus has made us all sick in one way or another. We share it worldwide. Though we are all in isolation, we share anxiety, fear, and stress about disrupted education, financial issues, job loss, illness and death. We therefore need desperately to hang on to hope, faith, and
Cooperation & Sharing
Interesting new prompt for our next work. For the first few weeks of Corona Virus there was little cooperation and sharing. I mean – why do you need two years worth of toilet paper! Previously unseen supermarket rage and shelves reminiscent – I can only imagine – of war time
Cooperation & Sharing
This time, I decided the prompt as “Cooperation & Sharing .” The Covid19, which began in China and quickly spread to all over the world, has panicked each country. But countries are fighting a hard battle against Covid19 to solve it. At time like this, I think that “Individual and Individual, Individual and Society, nation
Windows
I live in a big city called “Seoul” in Korea. As I live in a big city, I think the concept of neighborhood is changing. Maybe it’s because of the complicated and busy city life? It seems that there are more occasions when relationship with neighbors feel formal rather than intimate
Real Cherry in Blossom Viewing
When I was a young child after World War ll people had very little money. Neighbors invited each other to gather at the mountainside as a modest pleasure of spring. They sat beneath cherry trees full of blossoms, enjoyed box lunches, had drinks and sang all day and far into the night. Everyone
Art Buddies
March 29, 2020 |Karol Kusmaul For years now, I have attended a spring fiber artist retreat in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. Sometimes for a week, sometimes for 11 days, sometimes with a class or two, sometimes just to retreat and work on projects. The venue is unbelievably perfect. Lots of
The Only Blue House in the Neighborhood
Last month I went off to Mexico for a late winter break from the rain and gloom of Oregon. February had been very busy and I had not even begun to plan how I was going to respond to our “Neighborhood” challenge, but tucked it into the back of my
Where I Am. Where I Go
A small town in the context of the wider world.