The Guardian looks into our hearts and loins - “The new summer of love: ‘People are desperate to have sex – it’s been a long year’” https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jun/05/new-summer-of-love-people-desperate-to-have-sex-its-been-a-long-year
Which reminds me of a heart-rent line at the beginning of “Fight Club,” when the woman with advanced cancer wails from a pulpit - “No one will have sex with me.”
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And then there is astonishing debt by a public official which just might distract him from his job as ….. Governor of West Virginia! [“A billion here, a billion there; pretty soon you’re talking about real money.” (Senator Everett Dirksen, D-Illinois)]
But, of course, the Guv says … “We’ve become terrible victims, because here we are in the middle of a project and 48 hours later your banker declares bankruptcy and we find out they’re bad actors. We’re innocent as the driven snow, but here we are holding the bag.” [Parkersburg W. Va.] https://www.newsandsentinel.com/submit-news/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/05/west-virginia-governor-jim-justice-debt-greensill
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Illegal drone scares terns, which abandon 2,000 eggs on Bolsa Chica nesting island (So. California) https://www.ocregister.com/2021/06/03/illegal-drone-scares-terns-which-abandon-3000-eggs-on-bolsa-chica-nesting-island/
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I finished another book today, the 2nd this week, and remembered what the-person-I’ll-never-meet (probably) in Hanoi said a couple of days ago, “You read too much. At our age we don’t need to accumulate any more knowledge. We need to live.” True or not, Alex Wagner’s Futureface is interesting & delightful. A journalist who I’ve often seen on my teevee, she has a Burmese mother, an American ( of Irish-Luxembourger descent) father, was herself born in the US, and was seeking to learn (1) who am I? & (2) who & where are my people? She gives a lot of background of her growing years, of both parents and of many of her grandparents (knew nothing about a few), reviewed documents from both her parents’ ancestral homelands & found she was baffled more as a result. So, she went to Burma to try to learn more - learned a lot but not much about her familial background. She went to Luxembourg, discovered quite a bit - but, in her mind, not nearly enough. Before and after each trip she inquired of experts on the 2 countries. She engaged with 3 DNA-ancestral companies. Her work is well-written - with fun, too - very educational, and resulted in conclusions worth reading, and not only by people of Luxembourger & Burmese descent.