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Eva’s Byte #255: Mustard Seeds
Faith and sensibility are the backbone of survival.
According to Matthew 17:20 – If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can move mountains.
Faith, along with sensibility regarding social-distancing and self-isolation, will move us past the Coronavirus (COVID – 19). Complemented by the Persian adage—“This too shall pass.”
A writer who published a Nonfiction collection comprised of 100 memoirs about growing up during the Sixties, I’ve interwoven its social issues: The Cold War and threat of Nuclear Annihilation; Counterculture; Civil Rights Movement; Vietnam War; Political Assassinations.
But, I never mentioned the polio epidemic, a holdover on us Baby Boomers from 1952, when the worst outbreak in the Unites States occurred. From Wikipedia: Of the 57,628 cases—3145 died and 21,269 were left with mild to disabling paralysis.
During my adolescence, I recall public round-ups at various intervals to receive both an inactivated poliovirus injection and a weakened poliovirus given orally.
Social-distancing never entered the picture!
And, no hand sanitizer either! Yet, my generation survived the Hong Kong Flu epidemic of 1968.
From the prologue of 100 Wild Mushrooms: Memoirs of the ‘60s (2017):
Meanwhile, under the mushroom cloud of the Cold War with its threat of nuclear warfare, my sister and I carried on as kids do regardless of world events. We twirled our hula hoops, collected Bazooka bubblegum wrappers, did our homework, rode bicycles, watched television, chased down the ice cream truck, and slept on brush rollers. Life as we knew it was groovy and far out!
*Then, as now, faith as small as a mustard seed will move us past this mountain.
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According to Matthew 17:20 – If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can move mountains.
Faith, along with sensibility regarding social-distancing and self-isolation, will move us past the Coronavirus (COVID – 19). Complemented by the Persian adage—“This too shall pass.”
A writer who published a Nonfiction collection comprised of 100 memoirs about growing up during the Sixties, I’ve interwoven its social issues: The Cold War and threat of Nuclear Annihilation; Counterculture; Civil Rights Movement; Vietnam War; Political Assassinations.
But, I never mentioned the polio epidemic, a holdover on us Baby Boomers from 1952, when the worst outbreak in the Unites States occurred. From Wikipedia: Of the 57,628 cases—3145 died and 21,269 were left with mild to disabling paralysis.
During my adolescence, I recall public round-ups at various intervals to receive both an inactivated poliovirus injection and a weakened poliovirus given orally.
Social-distancing never entered the picture!
And, no hand sanitizer either! Yet, my generation survived the Hong Kong Flu epidemic of 1968.
From the prologue of 100 Wild Mushrooms: Memoirs of the ‘60s (2017):
Meanwhile, under the mushroom cloud of the Cold War with its threat of nuclear warfare, my sister and I carried on as kids do regardless of world events. We twirled our hula hoops, collected Bazooka bubblegum wrappers, did our homework, rode bicycles, watched television, chased down the ice cream truck, and slept on brush rollers. Life as we knew it was groovy and far out!
*Then, as now, faith as small as a mustard seed will move us past this mountain.
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Eva’s Byte #500 – Going the Distance
“You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.” (Bob Marley)
One of the many who goes the distance in the capacity of care-giving, I recently found myself back in the loop of hightailing it to the ER and making follow-up visits to the hospital.
At this particular hospital, going the distance literally starts with pounding the pavement from a parking garage to a building, and then proceeding along a labyrinth of corridors to one’s destination.
On one of those days, I arrived before the official start of visiting hours. I sat in the waiting area at a central location where people in need of medical attention check in. I may have gone the distance, but this elderly woman out-distanced me by a mile:
She inched her way along the drop-off/pick-up lane to a set of doors. When she got out of her SUV, she single-handedly removed a wheelchair from the cargo section. After whipping it in shape, she then proceeded to assist her husband out of the vehicle and into the chair. After wheeling him inside the building, she got back in her vehicle and headed for one of the parking garages.
You know the drill. She had to walk all the way back to the central building. Eventually she’d have to walk all the way back to the parking garage to get her vehicle and join the queue in the transport area to perform another Herculean feat.
That’s an unsung heroine summoning her strength and stamina to go the distance!
In the capacity of a writer, I’ve gone the distance in fine-tuning chapter 6 of my Contemporary work in progress to 1544 words. Due to life’s hairpin turns, I’m slowly getting my mojo back for wending my way through the draft of chapter 7 (243 words thus far).
*May each of us go the extra mile when it’s required of us to do so.
My sincere appreciation to you for reading this far.
Eva’s Authors Den Page: http://www.authorsden.com/evapasco
One of the many who goes the distance in the capacity of care-giving, I recently found myself back in the loop of hightailing it to the ER and making follow-up visits to the hospital.
At this particular hospital, going the distance literally starts with pounding the pavement from a parking garage to a building, and then proceeding along a labyrinth of corridors to one’s destination.
On one of those days, I arrived before the official start of visiting hours. I sat in the waiting area at a central location where people in need of medical attention check in. I may have gone the distance, but this elderly woman out-distanced me by a mile:
She inched her way along the drop-off/pick-up lane to a set of doors. When she got out of her SUV, she single-handedly removed a wheelchair from the cargo section. After whipping it in shape, she then proceeded to assist her husband out of the vehicle and into the chair. After wheeling him inside the building, she got back in her vehicle and headed for one of the parking garages.
You know the drill. She had to walk all the way back to the central building. Eventually she’d have to walk all the way back to the parking garage to get her vehicle and join the queue in the transport area to perform another Herculean feat.
That’s an unsung heroine summoning her strength and stamina to go the distance!
In the capacity of a writer, I’ve gone the distance in fine-tuning chapter 6 of my Contemporary work in progress to 1544 words. Due to life’s hairpin turns, I’m slowly getting my mojo back for wending my way through the draft of chapter 7 (243 words thus far).
*May each of us go the extra mile when it’s required of us to do so.
My sincere appreciation to you for reading this far.
Eva’s Authors Den Page: http://www.authorsden.com/evapasco
