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    As it is Christmas Eve,  please accept our best wishes as we will be going "dark" through January 6, 2021.    Our Twitter Corner ,  Live Broadcast POD and Facebook Corner will be available   Happy Holidays &  Merry Christmas  Onward to 2021:

It has been quite a year--and we hereby began our Year-End Review with the following #RandomThoughts:   

  https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-25-2020

 

On this Thanksgiving Eve here in the United States, we hereby present this courtesy the team at The Atlantic as we wish all a Happy Thanksgiving here in the United States: 9 Poems for a Tough Winter (Matt Black/Magnum) “SO PENSEROSO” BY OGDEN NASH ( AUDIO VERSION ) I do not wish to be blithe, / I wish to recoil and writhe. / I will revel in cosmic woe, / And I want my woe to show.  This one will straighten you out. The great Ogden Nash, 1902–71, was a fiercely innovative poet who consecrated his art to the entertainment of the masses—and carried on being fiercely innovative. No one was wittier, no one was more verbally adroit, yet he had no meanness or spikiness; he was adored by that shy beast, the general reader. “So Penseroso” is a loving, piercing send-up of a certain strain of indulgent melancholia—to which we’re all prone right now, let’s face it. You will feel both accurately diagnosed and much, much better. —  James Parke r, staff writer “ MY HOUSE ” BY NIKKI GIOVANNI I’ve alwa

Please enjoy this on the state of the fight against COVID from our archives courtesy Bloomberg: Here’s the latest news from the global pandemic. Biden, Harris to make  remarks on economic recovery  on Monday  Johnson is forced to self-isolate , hampering U.K. agenda drive  Japan’s  economic surge set to slow  as coronavirus strikes back Is Moderna’s Vaccine a Game-Changer? Moderna said its Covid-19 vaccine was 94.5% effective in a preliminary analysis of a large late-stage clinical trial, another sign that a  fast-paced hunt by scientists and pharmaceutical companies  is paying off with potent new tools that could help control a worsening pandemic. The highly positive readout comes just a week after a  similar shot developed by Pfizer and BioNTech  was found to be more than 90% effective in an interim analysis. Both shots rely on a technology called messenger RNA that has  never been used to build an approved vaccine . Soon, millions of people around the world could soon be spared fro

   As we went to press, it is exactly two weeks until the US Presidential Election.   Our team will be dark until after the US Elections throughout our Properties as we leave all with the following as we remain hopeful: We Look forward to the privilege to serve next month.   We urge all to vote.