Odds and ends, Tibetan gratitude.

 Tibetan gratitude

https://youtu.be/Jum5BQnKbp0

Indoor dining and COVID transmission

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-09/five-minutes-from-20-feet-away-south-korean-study-shows-perils-of-indoor-dining-for-covid-19

Chinese words in English

https://www.thoughtco.com/english-words-borrowed-from-chinese-688248?utm_campaign=wilat&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cn_nl&utm_content=22326348&utm_term=

Hanukkah

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/reference/holidays/history-of-hanukkah/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=SpecialEdition_Escape_20201209&rid=5B79CAC70460A1DE3EE8726DE4693511

 I just called to say I love you

https://youtu.be/wFEH4GYXhAk

GBS and Chesterton

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/g-k-chesterton-and-george-bernard-shaw-an-ambivalent-literary-relationship/ar-BB1bEK2f

This bird was not in the mood to be saved.

Parrot tells firefighter to 'f*ck off' during rescue attempt

By Morgan Sung

Aug 14, 2018

Jessie, a bright yellow and turquoise Macaw parrot, escaped her home in Edmonton, UK over the weekend and stranded herself on her neighbor's roof for three days. Concerned that she was injured, her owners called the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) for help. When the RSPCA was unsuccessful in coaxing Jessie down, the London Fire Brigade stepped in.

Jesse's owners told the firefighter to say "I love you" to try to bond with the bird and lure her back to safety. But when a firefighter trekked to the roof to tell her, Jessie started hurling expletives at him.

Watch manager Chris Swallow told Metro, "We then discovered that she had a bit of a foul mouth and kept swearing, much to our amusement."

Although Jessie responded with "I love you," she also told the firefighter to "fuck off."

Recalling the Spanish flu of 1918

This was written by Kathleen O'Mara, in 1869 after the Irish famine, reprinted during 1919 Spanish Flu Pandemic. Photo taken during the Spanish Flu Pandemic And people stayed at home And read books And listened And they rested And did exercises And made art and played And learned new ways of being And stopped and listened More deeply Someone meditated, someone prayed Someone met their shadow And people began to think differently And people healed. And in the absence of people who Lived in ignorant ways Dangerous, meaningless and heartless, The earth also began to heal And when the danger ended and People found themselves They grieved for the dead And made new choices And dreamed of new visions And created new