WaccoBB is now CLOSED!

Thanks for willing to create community with me!

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish! :wink:

With Love and Gratitude,
Barry
:waccosun:

:waccosun: WaccoBB is closing on Friday, February 5th at 2pm. :waccosun:

:rip:


I'll be online from 1:30 to 2pm for any last comments.

It's been real
(or, rather, virtual! :wink:)

Media Bias Fact Check site appears to not have big money supporting it (I didn't really dig deep), yet my heart breaks... seeing the fences or corrals one would put around one's own mind, around...

Actually, lots of studies show that online communication fosters incivility. There is something about the online experience that emboldens people, whether called TruthTeller or Sam Jameson, to say...

"Incivility" generally wasn't a big problem, in my opinion. There wasn't much rudeness. And while people often did use handles, their real names were generally available on their public profiles.
...

Girls Scouts in New York's homeless shelters are selling cookies by mail this year.
For girls whose families have lost their housing, Girl Scouting provides:

consistency – a weekly meeting...

Poem to COVID<o:p></o:p>
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I´d turn right away from you<o:p></o:p>
wherever I crossed you in the street<o:p></o:p>
and as you came towards me<o:p></o:p>
I´d quickly go the other...

OK, looking back at our COVID section, I agree we went overboard. There is obviously a way to responsibly discuss each one of these bulleted topics. What I was trying to get at was ‘Don’t be a...

this powerful poem led me to find another lovely one by this great modern Christian mystic;
AND a cool photo of him twirling an umbrella.
...

Hymn to Matter


Blessed be you harsh matter, barren rock; you who yield only
to violence, you who force us to work if we would eat. Blessed
be you, perilous matter, violent sea, untamable...

How to Climb a Mountain


Make no mistake. This will be an exercise in staying vertical.
Yes, there will be a view, later, a wide swath of open sky,
but in the meantime: tree and stone. If...

Well, there are wackos and then there are waccos. Take yer pick. :-)

Here on WaccoBB, I have been adamant that


The COVID-19 pandemic is real and deadly dangerous;

Wearing masks and maintaining physical distance from others can reduce the spread of the...

We allow people to forward News and Events from the Townsy app to their Facebook pages, but we have NO relationship to the company. Townsy is owned by little old me, sitting at my computer at my...

The Facts of Life 


That you were born
and you will die.


That you will sometimes love enough
and sometimes not.

Winter’s Tale


Even from my study at the back
of the house I can hear an orange drop
upstairs, one of the last to grow


on the dwarf tree you bought me
thirty years ago. When it tried

The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines DO NOT HACK YOUR CELLS DNA!!! Contrary to assertions, it won’t turn you or anyone else into a GMO. mRNA stays in the cytoplasm, where the ribosomes are. It does not...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/18/briefing/donald-trump-pardon-phil-spector-coronavirus-deaths.html

Underselling the Vaccine

“We’re underselling the vaccine,” Dr. Aaron Richterman, an...

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https://images.theweek.com/sites/default/files/247832_rgb_768.jpg?resize=728x728

Yes, there may be some risks to the vaccines - any vaccine. But for me the risks of COVID by far outweigh the risks of the vaccine.

While incarcerated, Keith Washington took notes on the gross neglect by the GEO private prison staff that has made, say, shoplifting, in effect a capital crime. When released to a GEO halfway house,...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZqu8ojifhU

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“And from that day forward,
not everything was about Donald J. Trump.”



...

Amanda Gorman is rightly the "poet of the day", this post-Inauguration Thursday, but I want to share a Comment under my re-posting of Maya Angelou's masterpiece on my Facebook page yesterday (as I...

The Hill We Climb

When day comes, we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never-ending shade?

The loss we carry. A sea we must wade.

We braved the belly of the beast.

We’ve...

You've outdone yourself today, Larry old boy!
THANK you!
THANK you, Maya Angelou!
(THIS is what the Silence is saying!
THIS IS our salvation!
This is the cure for all our ills,
I do believe!)...

I got my first shot last Thursday. My arm was mildly sore, but that’s it. I’m very grateful for having received it.

It's a beautiful thing, isn't it, to see the synching of intentions to both take care of ourselves and each other, community, unfold with some grace. May everyone enjoy a ride in "the stream of...

Thank you, everybody, for your kind words! They have really warmed my heart and given me a sweet afterglow for this endeavor. Big Smile:waccosun:




I am very happy to hear this! I've been in...

Here is today's COVID-19 update from Dr. Campbell. This one looks mainly at the U.S. and the U.K. 01/19/21.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at-ZqpSRL_c

We have almost reached 25% of the...

In This Place
(An American Lyric)


There’s a poem in this place—

in the footfalls in the halls

in the quiet beat of the seats.

It is here, at the curtain of day,

where America writes a...

Andrew Wilner, MD wrote me about joy, relief as his unexpected COVID-19 vaccine side effect.

https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2021/01/an-unexpected-covid-19-vaccine-side-effect.html

Transformation...

I know where you are coming from. I'm not all of one mind on this vaccine or other vaccines or most things for that matter. I generally don't get vaccines. I read all the antivax stuff. Like many I...

The New Horizon




There’s a storm coming
the air changes subtly
something inside
shifts
turns

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Oh, the statistics made me feel less anxious about Covid very locally here in Sebastopol where I live and more aware of how it's affecting different areas and populations of our county. I assumed it...

Thank you so much for your service to our community, Michael! I so appreciate how how you took up this task on your own, and consistently posted, day in and day out, to keep us informed! :waccosun:

January 14

309 New Cases in Sonoma County. Follow Cases in your zip code here. https://experience.arcgis.com/experi...page/page_30/w

7 Sonoma County Residents Deaths were attributed to Covid-19...

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I'd recommend patience, too. I know several counties felt a bit blind-sided by this and don't think they have enough vaccine or even the infrastructure to distribute it.
Probably best to wait and...

Here is today's COVID-19 update from Dr. Campbell. This one has some very interesting information about the "SIREN Study" (of people who caught COVID during the First Wave last year). Also some about...

Two new COVID-19 updates from Dr. Campbell. The first one is about fevers. The second one is an international update. 01/13/21.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=171J_hC83XU

...

What nerve you have! Michael has volunteered his time and energy reporting daily case statistics for Sonoma County since April 1. He has earned our thanks for providing this valuable service, and he...

Given that it "wouldn't be the same" I request that any new site/group does not use the Wacco name in any way.:waccosun:

I have started a new thread for referrals to sites that can be used in lieu...

Having some involvement with Wacco since its inception and observing its growth and evolution through its time it saddens me to bid adieu. I'll particularly miss the daily poem provided with such...

Deep bows to you, Barry, for your dedication and constancy in providing this gift to our world - weaving the fabric of community. I wish you all the best in whatever venture comes next. You are a...

Trying to Be Thoughtful in the First Brights of Dawn

I am thinking, or trying to think, about all the
imponderables for which we have
no answers, yet endless interest all the
range of our...

Here is a new COVID-19 update from Dr. Campbell. This one is a general update. 01/10/21.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1utnG0ohSYQ

A study in England suggests two immunosuppressive drugs...

Waves, Oceans and Flip-flopping


think of a wave and then also, the ocean,
a young branch and the trunk of a tree,
a spent blossom and the stem of a rose,
a broken heart and an...

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