Nat @natlanna - Bluesky Profile

I didn’t expect to love Before I Let You Go as much as I did! Definitely got me 😭

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Spring!!

31.03.2025 01:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nature therapy

24.03.2025 11:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Recharging

24.03.2025 11:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Vacation mode!

21.03.2025 23:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Exploring the old mines while looking for bats.

02.03.2025 00:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Yesterday I got to climb through some old mines for an annual bat count. After being hit hard by the white nose disease it looks like the population is slowly recovering. #bats #mines #naturetherapy

01.03.2025 10:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Maple Sugaring at Nixon Park! Such a fun event!

23.02.2025 19:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You know I love your lists. I am pretty sure you have read Kristin Hannah’s The Four Winds and The Great Alone, but those are my suggestions.

23.02.2025 01:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Who else sees a face? #creepy #nature #tree #TroughCreekSP

22.02.2025 02:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Trough Creek State Park- gorgeous in spring!

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Trough Creek State Park- beautiful in winter.

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German Kaffeeklatsch!

17.02.2025 01:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

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