Today marks 21 days of conscious self-isolation. I was cautious for a few days before though. Our little ladies-who-do-lunch group last met on Friday, March 13 at Temple on Queen restaurant in Bridgetown. I think we were already being careful as we didn't hug as we usually do. Who knows how long this will last? I'm not sure if I mentioned this in a previous post but I have had to cancel my end-of-July birthday BIG party. Making reservations and all that became really iffy. Oh well, as I've been saying, "I just have to stay around for another year." If I said it before, sorry, but it's been on my mind a lot as I was really looking forward to it.
A friend who also writes a blog sent me a really interesting article from a publication he follows - BrainPickings. This latest one featured an article on a remarkable Alaskan radio reporter who covered the 1964 earthquake which hit Anchorage. In a time when women were scarce in the radio biz, this lady proved her mettle and I laud her accomplishments. I was fortunate to have been to this community a number of years ago and while on a bus tour up Turnagain Arm, saw the the earth upheavals which were scary even after 40-odd years. Here is a quote from a book written about Genie Chance, that intrepid reporter -
Stationing herself at Anchorage’s Public Safety Building as night fell on the powerless city, she began working with the police chief, the fire chief, and various officials. As soon as KENI was back on the air with a generator, she began broadcasting the essentials of survival: where to take shelter, how to purify snow for drinking water. She instructed people to limit the use of candles to the bare minimum of necessity — candles were a fire hazard, the city had just evaded a conflagration by what seemed like a miracle, and the water supply system was too savaged to fight a fire outbreak.
The book is called THIS IS CHANCE by Jon Mooallem and sounds like a good read. Thanks Bob (Ernest Blair Experiment) for the referral.She then began collating eyewitness accounts to give people an accurate picture of what had just unworlded them, careful to convey the gravity of the situation without details so gruesome that people would lose hope, still performing the impossible informational acrobatics at the balance-point on the beam between paralysis and panic.
I leave you with the following which turned up my Facebook yesterday and made me smile - we could all use one these days. And I left on the credit. Always try to give credit where credit is due.
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