Limbo

The Velvet Bandit (San Rafael, California)
Artists from Barcelona to California and beyond are hailing
the hope that comes with shots that were developed in record time and are now
being administered to millions of people worldwide every day. 

News blues…

Meet John Hollis, a man with super-antibodies against Covid-19  (4:24 mins) 

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Tracking Covid-19 vaccinations worldwide 

Healthy futures, anyone?

It's unavoidable: we must ban fossil fuels to save our planet. Ideas on how we do it 

Meanwhile, back at the ranch…

Limbo. Living in limbo. That’s me.
Yesterday, I was living with uncertainty. 
Today, uncertainty has morphed into limbo.
Either no forward momentum – no house sale, for example – or simply stymied. An example of the latter: SARS will not accept a photo of my mother holding a sheet of paper with her case number and the date AND a photocopy of her ID book. (The sheet of paper with info is a SARS requirement.) Getting her to the point of wellness to take that photo took more than a week.
Alas, her ID book seems to have disappeared. Which means I must hunt for it.
Then, retake the photo – which means waiting for her to have a good-enough day that she can hold both the paper and the ID book. (If I find it. If not, she’ll not get her refund, the refund that will keep her financially afloat.)
I can make out that she’s saying her ID book is “in the drawer.” I’ve looked in every likely drawer – in this house, in her Care Center drawers…. No ID book. Today, I’ll look again.
It’s exhausting trying to do one’s best for a parent – and feeling as if one comes up short every time.
After seven years of my mother paying scant attention to her life’s administrative tasks, the task has fallen to me. I feel haunted.
Unsure if I can carry on.

The ID book that broke the camel's back?

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Tomorrow begins daylight savings time in most US states. “Spring forward, fall back” means Californians set their time pieces forward one hour. And, for a week or two, Californians head to work, or school, etc., in the dark. And leave work, or school, etc., in daylight. That  magical moment when one steps out of the workplace into sunshine. Summer’s afoot!

In South Africa, the days get shorter and nightfall earlier:
Feb 26: sunrise 5:47am; sunset 6:33pm.
March 2: sunrise 5:50am; sunset 6:29pm.
March 9: sunrise 5:55am; sunset 6:21pm.
March 12: sunrise 5:56am; sunset 6:18pm.
March 13: sunrise 5:57am; sunset 6:17pm.