New stuff I’m learning about living dying what matters most - Thu, Jan 21 2021

Poet Amanda Gorman delivered an inauguration poem from the steps of the United States Capitol which powerfully captured the national mood. Titled “The Hill We Climb,” the piece was written specifically for the occasion. “In my…

Jeff Cohn On a day full of emotional moments, Ms. Gorman's reading of this amazing poem was one of the high points. It helped me to imagine what's possible...

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Jeff Cohn I like the concept that there are things you can do to build patience internally as well as things you can do to impact external situations that lead to waiting..

The Washington Post – Karin Brulliard – Jan 18, 7:05 AM

Then she received a coronavirus shot. It felt like any other vaccination, leaving her with mild upper arm soreness but no other physical side effects. The emotional effects, however, were remarkable. Even thinking of the vaccine, Green said two…

Jeff Cohn I got my first vaccine dose on Tuesday and I'm in this kind of weird place where hope is creeping in and I have an appreciation of, as I near the immunity 'finish line,' stakes being higher than ever...

Black Americans have been catching the coronavirus, getting severely ill and dying from it, at a rate higher than other racial and ethnic groups in the U.S. Black Americans are also less likely to want to get the COVID-19 vaccine, according to…

Jeff Cohn 'But all prominent people can be amplifiers or messages that have been advanced by [Black medical professionals] ... who we can trust would not say it was safe and effective if it was not.'

After 35 years of sharing everything from a love for jazz music to tubes of lip gloss, twins Kimberly and Kelly Standard assumed that when they became sick with Covid-19 their experiences would be as identical as their DNA. Early last spring, the…

Jeff Cohn Pretty fascinating- being born with the same 'Scrabble tiles' doesn't mean you'll spell the same words, especially as you have different life experiences over time..

As Dr. Stephen Hahn, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, stepped to the White House lectern on March 19, for his first star turn in the Trump administration's pandemic response, he seemed alert to the risks of serving as the…

Jeff Cohn That the FDA and CDC could have such similar stories during a time of national crisis is a disgrace. While the former administration is largely to blame, lack of personal integrity at the leadership level played a role too, IMO..

President-elect Joe Biden addressed a grieving nation on Tuesday, after the United States had earlier in the day passed 400,000 deaths from the coronavirus. Speaking at a service to remember Americans killed by the virus, Biden praised medical…

Jeff Cohn I think, 'In order to heal we must remember' is a line that I and others will carry with me, along with the linkage of light with the process of remembering...

(CNN Business) For years, believers of the QAnon conspiracy theory had been waiting for the moment when a grand plan would be put into action and secret members of a supposed Satanic pedophilia ring at the highest ranks of government and Hollywood…

Jeff Cohn That we have some members of Congress whose world view is built on this malevolent and obviously false conspiracy theory seems incredible...