Esparanza: A Daily Outsider Public Service Initiative

 As a new week starts in our World, our team chose an image that reflects the profound state of Affairs in Our World as the Glaciers have changed over the past 100 years:   We also present a true sense of the realities as our World deals with this change courtesy the team at the Visual Capitalist--our team will be assessing it consistently:  

  New Collection Documents Challenges Healthcare Workers Faced as Pandemic Evolved The Library of Congress has acquired audio diaries featuring more than 200 frontline healthcare workers in the fight against COVID-19, a collection that provides first-hand testimonies from hospitals and communities across the country as the public health crisis unfolded. The audio library was donated by The Nocturnists, a San Francisco-based independent medical storytelling community and podcast. Click here for more information . PASSAGE OF THE WEEK: "The people you respect and admire? The people who seem to be so self-aware, so in touch with themselves? The chances that they keep a  journaling practice  is nearly a guarantee. Not only because the list of known journalers throughout history is comically long—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Virginia Woolf, Joan Didion, John Steinbeck, Sylvia Plath, Anaïs Nin, Martina Navratilova, and Ben Franklin—just to name a few, but because it...

  FEMA COVID-19 Update   Key Messages The Biden-Harris Administration has launched a national public education campaign,  We Can Do This , to help Americans make informed decisions about COVID-19 vaccines to protect themselves and their communities. This campaign will run from June 4 to July 4 and involves a whole-of-government response. All 10 FEMA regions and headquarters will work with state, local, tribal, territorial and the District of Columbia emergency managers and stakeholders to support this campaign. Working with state governments, FEMA will continue to provide federal support to community vaccination centers, including supplemental vaccine allocation to 11 pilot sites. There are 11 active or temporarily closed federal community vaccination center pilot sites and 88 mobile pop-up sites receiving supplemental vaccine allocations and other federal support. Additionally, there are three federal community vaccination center pilot sites that are receiving feder...

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