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Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.”

There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.

DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

You win the internet today!

The old man and I stepped out to a Cincinnati dog-friendly pub to get some work done and to be among the living. We had a busy week of spreading good among a dark national landscape. #cavalierkingcharles #hospice #chaplain #dogsofbluesky #workingdog

Pure evil.

Gratitude & grief can & do co-exist. Acknowledging that reality doesn’t make you ungrateful.

#Thanksgiving2024

Last text convo w/my sister: “Them: I know you won’t vote for Trump, but pls don’t vote for an abortionist. Me: I know you wont vote for Harris, but pls don’t vote for a rapist felon.” Not a word since. W/my folks gone, my two siblings are it. Spending day w/ friends. Have one for me just because

@kellymrosati.bsky.social thoughts?

That Christian conservatives cited & linked supposed “death panels” to the dems in 09…but now 15 years later, with this incoming administration, there’s actually real danger for vulnerable populations. How long before we see low income elderly & disabled people taken out for the sake of cost? #faith

I can’t read it. Every day I encounter the poor and discarded in rehab and longterm care facilities. Disabled & elderly alike. They live in near squalor. Warehoused. Forgotten. Only the wealthy or those w/ familial safety nets can escape this fate. I am faced w/knowing it could be me someday.

It is a serious thing

just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in the broken world.

~ Mary Oliver

This is Enzo. He will carry on, but he will not be enthusiastic about it. 12/10

In my early Christian days, when anxiety & fear stalked me, these were verses of shame and reinforced by those around me. Nineties evangelicalism was not always kind…or wise.

So hard anytime… but especially around the holidays. Prayed for you this morning.

Beautiful!

Fountain pen?

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 4/20 #bookchallenge #booksky #blueskydogs #dogs #dogtraining

I am puzzled by the DNA evidence. With today’s tech, no answers? Perhaps the genetic database can help?

I have work to do in reconciling my faith and call with this new administration, and the friends & family who helped ushered it in. Chalk art littered the hospital garage during the first wave. Hope is louder! #palliativecare #faith

I still reel from the pandemic. I believe the virus was an evil force, a separate entity—stealing breath, isolating, stoking fear, dividing communities, mowing down the most disenfranchised. I’m forever haunted & inspired by those I cared for. And now this…a new beast coming to the U.S. in Jan.

Periodic reminder to be kind to service workers.

Especially this year.

It would be his last birthday at nearly a century old. My patient was surrounded by family & friends, but he preferred to feed his good friend doggy ice cream. He delighted in Vinny in his last months of life. #cavakierkingcharles #therapydog #hospice #blueskydogs

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 3/20

What a beautiful boy! I love the bday hat. Vinny will be three December 1. Where does the time go? We’re getting a brother or sister in May. We need a spicy pup. The two of us have become like an old married couple.

Here’s the first time I laid eyes on baby Vinny, in my breeder’s truck—it was love at first sight. My breeder has bred cavies for 30 years, initially for show, now for the health & legacy of the breed. She picked him out specifically for therapy work. But any dog that loves people can do this work.♥️

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 2/20

Go for it! Fairly easy to get certified. Makes such a difference. Normal into the abnormal. My last pup served as the palliative care dog at Rush Med in Chicago. But I join you in hoping the world doesn’t crash & burn. 😬

He reads! What more could you want in a therapy dog? 😉 #hospice #palliativecare #workingdogs #cavaliers

True story

Starter pack. There must be one. You’re getting set to surpass me …