Another Year
Sunflowers Towering
Sweet Corn 🌽 Tassling
It was
Another Year
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Monday, July 24, 2017
Berries
Blackberries
The neighbor mowed our long neglected yard,
Opening a path to our thorny patch
Of beautiful blackberries.
"Illini "
Fred crawled in between the thorny canes and stray wild 😜 Parsnip
To pick a handful of these sweet berries.
Plenty of green and underripe berries
Stay tuned.
Sunday, July 23, 2017
Letters I've sent #healthcare
Hello Senator Leahy,
I write to you about health care and all the urgent reform some think are needed.I am an RN Case Manager with almost 30 years experience working in Vermont between hospital, subacute, nursing home, insurance/HMO, long term care and home based care. That is in spite of low wages initially and tough conditions.I was laid off in 1996 because I was under 40 and the legislature protected the elder workers.
I have recently lost over 40 thousand dollars in my retirement/savings, was denied disability insurance 3 days after my MS diagnosis and lost a bundle-over 200 thousand on legal expenses and payout after a 5 year bloody family land court fight.
But I never wrote you before that I recall.Maybe I was just stunned by circumstances.But I write you now, not angrily, but passionately, that you must not pass legislation that promises to fix the health care system in a thousand pages.
My healthcare is pretty good now so please stop saying how broken it is. I agree with Medicaid waivers because I work for Vermont's Choices for Care. And yet I disagree with the generous financial loopholes where large assets are hidden and passed to others while I visit other starving or homeless Vermonters and pay very high taxes.Managed care is not something to be undertaken lightly. I worked for Kaiser and believed in our concepts but still it soured my stomach to turn down a circumcision because the child wasn't the right age.I have cared for Canadians who had to wait or spend their dollars in the US to get our level of care.And please support tort reform. Not only for health care. But also in cases like ours, where we lost so much.Finally, I must remain in my present health care support system. Do not change one thing. Add a catastrophic+preventive system for the poor. Vermont has an ideal system. I fear we will not be able to afford it much longer.Aren't you better off really studying what is working, who is happy, and who needs what? Then make incremental changes. Do not doubt we have the best health care system in the world. This means more to me than money or time. That is why I write today, not out of anger. My anger is gone since diagnosed with MS. I do not have the time for anger. Mary Gerdt RN
I write to you about health care and all the urgent reform some think are needed.I am an RN Case Manager with almost 30 years experience working in Vermont between hospital, subacute, nursing home, insurance/HMO, long term care and home based care. That is in spite of low wages initially and tough conditions.I was laid off in 1996 because I was under 40 and the legislature protected the elder workers.
I have recently lost over 40 thousand dollars in my retirement/savings, was denied disability insurance 3 days after my MS diagnosis and lost a bundle-over 200 thousand on legal expenses and payout after a 5 year bloody family land court fight.
But I never wrote you before that I recall.Maybe I was just stunned by circumstances.But I write you now, not angrily, but passionately, that you must not pass legislation that promises to fix the health care system in a thousand pages.
My healthcare is pretty good now so please stop saying how broken it is. I agree with Medicaid waivers because I work for Vermont's Choices for Care. And yet I disagree with the generous financial loopholes where large assets are hidden and passed to others while I visit other starving or homeless Vermonters and pay very high taxes.Managed care is not something to be undertaken lightly. I worked for Kaiser and believed in our concepts but still it soured my stomach to turn down a circumcision because the child wasn't the right age.I have cared for Canadians who had to wait or spend their dollars in the US to get our level of care.And please support tort reform. Not only for health care. But also in cases like ours, where we lost so much.Finally, I must remain in my present health care support system. Do not change one thing. Add a catastrophic+preventive system for the poor. Vermont has an ideal system. I fear we will not be able to afford it much longer.Aren't you better off really studying what is working, who is happy, and who needs what? Then make incremental changes. Do not doubt we have the best health care system in the world. This means more to me than money or time. That is why I write today, not out of anger. My anger is gone since diagnosed with MS. I do not have the time for anger. Mary Gerdt RN
Saturday, July 22, 2017
Friday, July 21, 2017
Replay... Travelogue for the Universe: Friday Night Musik
Travelogue for the Universe: Friday Night Musik: Friday Night Musik This week, Falcons on my mind. Mom's cause was to rid waterways of ddt. We see falcons now. ...
Thursday, July 20, 2017
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Replay... Travelogue for the Universe: Atlantis
Travelogue for the Universe: Atlantis: Atlantis I can still see my mother's eyes light up at the word, Atlantis A mythical place, a mysterious story, a continent, was it mo...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Monday, July 17, 2017
Views
The Views
All around us
Are Special
Fleeting
Moments
Bound in Silver
Proteins
Imprinted
magical
Memories
Sunday, July 16, 2017
Parsnip Webworms ...Friendly pests
The Webworms were Active...
On Poison Parsnip.
God sent ❤️
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