Passion Power

I’m happy to be vaccinated.   Vaccines are the best approach for preventing the spread of Covid and significantly lower your risk of death, so they say.  Vaccines downgrade the infection to a mild seasonal virus.   96% of the hospitalizations were the unvaccinated population according to the Centre for Disease Control, so they say.  Avoid vaccine but do so at your own risk. There is a certain percentage of people with vaccine hesitancy and the rest of us will just have to deal with that.   Instead, the Covid thought police are out in full force.   Don’t speak out or question anything.   Trust the pharmaceutical industry wholeheartedly.   Block anyone that goes against the current narrative-be afraid.   Nothing has disturbed the order, arrangement, or function of a free society like Covid has. People are suffering from covid derangement syndrome. Wearing a mask to your table but not at your table is comical. Wearing a mask outdoors is dumb too...

  I have always treated new years as a fresh start.   Like God hit the reset button and gave us all a new beginning.   So why is it already mid-January and I haven’t made a single goal for 2021.   There is no plan. I don’t really like it very much.   It seems perfectly reasonable to make new year’s resolutions and if you are all about positive change as I am, you plan out the year.   Without goals we are tossed around like a flag in a windstorm, right?   It seems unfathomable to just see what happens. What kind of crap is that? My husband’s resolution every year is just to be better than he was the year before. I ask him to be more specific, but he says no to me every time.   Last year a global pandemic, completely out of our control thrusted us into this abyss that we are still trying to climb out of.   It taught me that life is unpredictable.   We’ve had to learn how to adapt to new conditions, overcome challenges and improvise...

Let us not open the border just because Canadians decide they do not want to be Canadians this winter. Am I the Only One? Seniors want to leave the country and travel to their summer retreats and no pandemic will get in their way. Oh, I get it, summer activities and outdoor fun have come to an end. Winter can be cold and cruel not to mention the white stuff. It gets dark by 4 o’clock and if the sun just happens to be out it is 20 degrees colder. But wait a minute. The Americans were locked out of Canada all summer. They had places to go and people to see too. Why are people acting so entitled?   As we get older and the world changes around us. We either become more accepting or we get more demanding. Then I remembered Lois. Lois was my 80-year-old neighbour who had a cute little cottage across the street. She offered no commentary on the neighbours, did not say much about current events or grumble about association fees or the price of groceries or the weather. In fact,...