Reinvention.

Today's Tids Issue 4,695

Pleasant little things:

 

One of my new shoes isn’t right.

 

Life is full of thousands of simple little pleasures, and when you add them all up, they are far greater than the most expensive perceived luxury you have to pay for.

 

Another good reason not to be a Twitterer. I don’t have to worry this week about having been hacked.

 

Isn’t interesting that with this new world of ours with so much at our fingertips, we relish to be what we are not.

 

These are the times that try men’s souls, except for those who can get beyond preconceived notions, and rethink their place in a rapidly changing economic system. Never have the demands for creativity been so great. Comfort zones are out.

 

Brutus was at a buffet. When he took a roll, Julius Caesar said, “Eat two Brute.”

 

Republicans: Jobs.

Democrats: Mobs.

 

The Question:

Who was Mary Edwards Walker?

The Headlines:

--Markets Open Higher, Fade At Midday; Netflix Shares Plunge After Earnings’ Miss And Unsatisfactory Guidance.

--Retail Sales For June Jump 7.5%, Beating 5% Predictions; Retail Sales Now All the Way Back To Pre-Pandemic Trendline Growth.

USA Hots One Day Covid Case Record Of 77,000; State Of Washington Reduces Phase Gatherings Limits From 50 To 10; Mexico And Canada To Manton Border Closings To US Travelers..

--US And UK Spies Say Russian Hackers A Targeting Covid’19 Vaccine Research.

--Higher Income People Recovering Slower Than Lower Income People.

 

Synthesis: An essay about transgressions.

 

Part if the retail sales success is the result of stimulus payments which allowed avowed consumers to fulfill their innate shopping urges. It is hard to believe that retail is so healthy when reading reports of shuttered malls and historic companies slashing their Main Street exposure. But, Digital buying is filling in nicely… better than nicely.

 

7 days! Yes, folks, in just 7 days the we will once again hear the crack of bats and the balls slapping in mitts as baseballs fly once more, but now in empty parks. But for those like me who love that game, life will be a little but more normal again. The Red Sox are ready -- that is, if you call having no pitching being ready!

 

Looking for good sentences, Department:

A well-known local haberdasher, remember haberdashers, just died. His name was Briggs Doherty, and he was a colorful Irishman and true character. He had great looking store on Weybosset Street in Providence and I bought a few things there, on sale. Even in his death, honest opinions that drove him were remembered. On casual workplace wear he said, “We don’t want to see the end of civilization, where people went to work in their underwear.” And form a fellow haberdasher and admirer in Seattle: “He wanted to be an oasis of propriety on a sea of dishevelment.” I’m glad his last days weren’t watching tourists walk through historic streets.

 

Everybody is talking about school for the Fall – either by parents or educators or people who think they know more than the most involved, interested parties; those for or against. A lot of it is about science and health, but too much about political posturing. Here’s my take. Kids of school years, based on latest available CDC stats, have had death rate of about 45/121,374. Overall. people under 45 years have had a death rate of about 2.5%. I am assuming that a proportion of those younger deaths have been due to some preexisting health conditions. So, why not open live school for all kids and any have teachers under 45 years old, minus those with risk conditions. (Older teachers could teach risk students online, and even contribute to live season with specialty course lectures. Obviously, mask and distance and cleanliness precautions would be put in place. For you information, 80.2% of deaths are those over 65. If you add those over 55, the rate gores to 92%. Segmenting by age and risk could go along way towards a sense of normalization.

 

I had trouble getting to the University of New Orleans. I had to drive down a two lane road.

 

Things I have missed, Deportment:

In early 2000 a young Chinese entrepreneur named Jack Ma came to Japans Softbank founder Mayasayoshi Son with his idea for connecting Chinese manufacturers with overseas buyers. Son invested $20 Million in Ma’s company Alibaba. The Investment is now worth $150,100,000, 000. How’d I miss that one.

 

The Police had to book the guy who didn’t pay his library fine.

 

“… and the pursuit of happiness”, Department:

Apparently on Ocean Drive in Miami there is an ongoing nightly   party that attracts tourists from all over the country. As one local Miami observers says, “Yup, it’s a party where you can get shot, stabbed, sexually assaulted and now catch corona virus all at the same time.”

 

People see in the US Constitution what they want to see in the Constitution.

 

Interesting that Netflix, which gained over 10 Million new subscribers clamoring for Covid closing entrainment is having trouble forecasting a river of streaming profits ahead. I as a Netflix watcher can say that there is far less to watch anymore. And some of the new highly promoted efforts have floundered like flimsy kayaks on fierce rapids. And now Several other streamers have emerged and are now in the Mix, like giant Disney. So, pioneers soar and trail blazers get caught. The digital world is just too fats for longevity.

 

The Answer:

Mary Edwards Walker was the only woman to win a Medal of Honor. She was only one of 8 civilians to win the medal. She was a 19th century Surgeon and the first female Army Surgeon in History. During the Civil War she was captured by the Confederate after sneaking across enemy lines to to treat wounded civilians, and accused of spying for the Union. She was imprisoned, but always wore men’s clothing, for comfort she said, much to the chagrin of her captors. After the war Dr. Mary, married, became an advocate for women’s rights; an abolitionist and prohibitionist. But, first and foremost she was what she loved, a physician. She was nearly arrested for wearing men’s clothes. In fact, in 1916 Congress tried to take away her Medal of Honor, and later did officially remove she and 900 men from the MOH list (Her name was restored in 1877). But, even after the removal, she wore it proudly until she died in1919. Probably wearing men’s clothes. I wonder if she met Briggs Cunningham yesterday.

 

That, was odd.

 

Grocery workers must let customers decide if they want plastic or paper because baggers can’t be choosers.

 

Have a great weekend, E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!!