Pigs Reborn

 

What is the difference between a pig and a chicken at breakfast?

The chicken is involved and the pig is committed.

Each year we are pigs reborn.  Born again pigs.

Angel pigs.

Flying pigs.  We are not the flying pigs of "that will happen when pigs fly".  We are the flying pigs as in "that's a miracle pigs can fly!!"

I guess if you're vegetarian it's oats and oranges.

The orange tree is involved and the oats are committed.

Angel oats ...   Flying oats doesn't have the same ring to it ...

On second thought ...

Important Update Regarding SCUU's Use of Zoom for Services

ZOOM

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If you are a visitor Please use the Contact Us to let us know you'd like to sign up for our Sugarloaf Congregation of Unitarian Universalists (SCUU) Church Online via Zoom.  See Services and Events on our News page.

 Important Update Regarding SCUU's Use of Zoom for Services

Thank you to all who have attended or contributed to SCUU's Church Online via Zoom.  Unfortunately, some people have taken advantage of Zoom meetings [Not Ours], joining them to cause disruption or harm.  Zoom has offered some options we can take in order to prevent this from happening.

1) Do not announce the meeting on a public website.  SCUU has removed the link to the weekly service on our website

2) Use a new meeting number for each meeting.  Future meeting ids will be put in the Digest or emailed weekly, they will not be on our website.

3) Use a meeting password.  You'll need the password for connecting from a computer or smartphone, and for joining via phone.

4) Use a waiting room and admit only people who are known to you. We have done this, but are searching for a way to allow verified visitors.

5) Lock the meeting.  We will not allow more people to join after 10:40 or 10:45.

6) Do not post recordings.  Meeting recordings will not be posted as previously communicated.

Thanks in advance for joining, and we hope the additional restrictions are not too difficult to overcome.

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The Infection That’s Silently Killing Coronavirus Patients ... and Use of Pulse Oximeters

Link to New York Times article -- The Infection That's Silently Killing Coronavirus Patients

The Infection That’s Silently Killing Coronavirus Patients

Excerpts ...

"We are just beginning to recognize that Covid pneumonia initially causes a form of oxygen deprivation we call “silent hypoxia” — “silent” because of its insidious, hard-to-detect nature."

"... when Covid pneumonia first strikes, patients don’t feel short of breath, even as their oxygen levels fall. And by the time they do, they have alarmingly low oxygen levels and moderate-to-severe pneumonia (as seen on chest X-rays). Normal oxygen saturation for most persons at sea level is 94 percent to 100 percent; Covid pneumonia patients I saw had oxygen saturations as low as 50 percent."

"A vast majority of Covid pneumonia patients I met had remarkably low oxygen saturations at triage — seemingly incompatible with life — but they were using their cellphones as we put them on monitors. Although breathing fast, they had relatively minimal apparent distress, despite dangerously low oxygen levels and terrible pneumonia on chest X-rays."

"By the time patients have noticeable trouble breathing and present to the hospital with dangerously low oxygen levels, many will ultimately require a ventilator.

Silent hypoxia progressing rapidly to respiratory failure explains cases of Covid-19 patients dying suddenly after not feeling short of breath. (It appears that most Covid-19 patients experience relatively mild symptoms and get over the illness in a week or two without treatment.)"

ergo ...

"There is a way we could identify more patients who have Covid pneumonia sooner and treat them more effectively — and it would not require waiting for a coronavirus test at a hospital or doctor’s office. It requires detecting silent hypoxia early through a common medical device that can be purchased without a prescription at most pharmacies: a pulse oximeter.

Pulse oximeter is no more complicated than using a thermometer. These small devices turn on with one button and are placed on a fingertip. In a few seconds, two numbers are displayed: oxygen saturation and pulse rate. Pulse oximeters are extremely reliable in detecting oxygenation problems and elevated heart rates.

Pulse oximeters helped save the lives of two emergency physicians..."

She tested a coronavirus vaccine a month ago. Here's what the last 4 weeks have been like.

She tested a coronavirus vaccine a month ago. Here's what the last 4 weeks have been like.

Excerpt from MSN Lifestyle Article:

The first person to receive the Moderna coronavirus vaccine was Jennifer Haller of Seattle ...

“I don’t have specific stories, but I am thinking a lot about undocumented workers right now. My birthday was just last week and for the past couple of years I’ve done a fundraiser on Facebook. This  year I picked a non-profit to support undocumented workers. That’s a group that has completely fallen through the cracks and received zero help from the federal government, certainly.

“They have the hardest jobs in our country, I believe, and critical jobs. And so that was something that was important to me to support and to recognize.

“I don’t know how to say it, but I know my family and my neighbors are going to look back on this time and be like, ‘Wow, wasn’t that magical? We got to slow down. We got to spend some quality time with our family. We got to connect.’ And I’m really kind of embarrassed by that, because half of our country, even prior to this crisis, was living paycheck to paycheck.

“So I hope, when I’m doing interviews, when people are hearing my story, what I really hope is that it inspires them to think beyond themselves. It’s natural, when we’re in crisis, to go inward to protect ourselves and to protect our family. But I really hope that this can inspire people to step outside of that and to think bigger. And I hope, certainly more broadly, that this is a wake-up call for our country to recognize the inequality that has always been there and to take some important steps to meet everybody’s basic human needs: universal healthcare, paid sick time, a livable minimum wage, I could go on…”

Just Mercy Awesome Movie

A historical bookend to "To Kill a MockingBird" ...one based on facts the other not ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Mercy


https://slate.com/culture/2019/12/just-mercy-movie-accuracy-fact-fiction-bryan-stevenson.html

"Becuase I made my own church" Rosie Perez

The abuse that I endured at the hands of nuns made me the type of person where I don’t believe in anybody’s dogma. I don’t buy it. It’s just a form of control. I do believe in energy. That’s my religion. The energy of love is necessary for me. That’s what I pray for. People are like, “How come you pray when you say you don’t believe in the Catholic Church?” I say, “Because I made my own church.”

From interview in New York Times.

Things We Say At Services

Chalice Lighting
    May the light we now kindle/Inspire us to use our powers/
    To heal and not to hurt/To help and not to hinder/
    To bless and not to curse/to serve you, Spirit of Freedom.

Story for All Ages
    Go Now in Peace/Go Now In Peace/May the Spirit of Love
    Surround you/Everywhere/Everywhere you may go.

Chalice Extinguishing
    We extinguish this flame but not the light of truth, the warmth of community,
    or the fire of commitment. These we carry in our hearts until we are together
    again.

Wow Poem -- Pandemic by Lynn Ungar

Pandemic

What if you thought of it
as the Jews consider the Sabbath—
the most sacred of times?
Cease from travel.
Cease from buying and selling.
Give up, just for now,
on trying to make the world
different than it is.
Sing. Pray. Touch only those
to whom you commit your life.
Center down.

And when your body has become still,
reach out with your heart.
Know that we are connected
in ways that are terrifying and beautiful.
(You could hardly deny it now.)
Know that our lives
are in one another’s hands.
(Surely, that has come clear.)
Do not reach out your hands.
Reach out your heart.
Reach out your words.
Reach out all the tendrils
of compassion that move, invisibly,
where we cannot touch.

Promise this world your love–
for better or for worse,
in sickness and in health,
so long as we all shall live.

–Lynn Ungar 3/11/20

From http://www.lynnungar.com/poems/pandemic/

When I read this poem I said the author sounds like a unitarian universalist.

http://www.lynnungar.com/about/