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“Making Mobiles” by Karolina Merska: An artist’s manual on how to create beautiful Polish pajaki -
“Hands Up to the Sky” by Michael Franti & Spearhead: A surprisingly upbeat song about acknowledging both loss and the beauty of life
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Tag Archives: pandemic
Are We Ready for the Next Pandemic?
The United States (and the world) is lagging in infectious disease readiness
At least every couple of years it seems there’s a big news story about some sort of exotic virus making the rounds far across the globe somewhere. We hear about awful things like Ebola and Bird Flu spreading in other … Continue reading
Posted in Something Special
Tagged CDC, Center for Disease Control, epidemics, infectious disease, pandemic, spanish flu
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The Last Man by Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley speculates on the end of mankind from an incurable plague
Known widely as the author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley horrified us with her notorious monster brought to life with more humanity than we care to admit. She wrote much more than Frankenstein, however, and her later, lesser-known novel The Last … Continue reading
“Kyrie” by Ellen Bryant Voigt
Ellen Bryant Voigt's sonnet sequence on the post-WWI Influenza of 1918
Few may be familiar with the Influenza of 1918. Although it took half a million lives in the U.S. and 25 million worldwide, most of whom were young adults, the pandemic somehow eludes due emphasis in our history books. One … Continue reading
Posted in Lending Insight
Tagged Ellen Bryant Voigt, Epidemic, Illness, Influenza, Kyrie, Loss in Poetry, pandemic, Poetry, Poetry about Death, Sonnets, World War I
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