We have three young ladies here as guests: Ruby, her Brazilian room mate (in her US College) and a friend of her roommate who lives in a nearby town.
Joy took them all to her family get together yesterday at her brother's farm nearby, so it is quiet here. (I hate parties so stayed home, with Kuya, who has to supervise the farm also stayed home).
The Brazilian roommate had a bad cold (negative for covid) and is better, but now Ruby developed the same symptoms yesterday, so they came home early and we put her to bed last night.
The maid also has the same symptoms and is only doing light cleaning: We had her sister in to do the wash. We have a washing machine and a spin drier, but have to hang up the clothes outside, which is hard work.
and tonite is New Year's eve, which means fireworks and a party at the plaza nearby and lots of firecrackers going off: and the five dogs will be hiding beneath my bed in fear.
I am still recovering from dengue and chronic laziness but otherwise am well.
The US news is discouraging: Now Biden's HHS is proposing a rule to order docs to obey the rules and kill fetuses and do elective surgeries that are considered mutilation and forbidden to Catholics (sterilizations and gender surgery). Of course this rule will be used to destroy the Catholic hospitals that are forbidden to do such things. Full proposal HERE.
Given the expansion of killing the sick/ poor/ handicapped /mentally ill in Canada, we can see where this is going.
for all the "woke" and Black Lives Matter discussions going on in the USA, one is aghast that no one seems to be mentioning why such rules will be rejected by many in the black and other minority communities: where many refuse to sign living wills, distust the medical establishment and even distrust the covid shot.
These discussions all are done as if everyone in the USA belonged to the affluent elite individualist materialist culture where disability is seen as a reason to die (most assisted suicides are not for terminal illness you know), ignoring the cultures of ethnic Catholics, Hispanics, the Black community, and the culture of many AmerIndian tribal members who believe in God and see illness and caring for the sick as part of life.
Speaking of an affluent elite culture: I tried to watch the movie the Glass Onion but turned it off in the middle. Everyone except one lady trying to find who killed her sister, was a narcissist and obnoxious. The film got great reviews, so I expect, like the movie Don't look up, that it was a satire where the reviewers loved the satire while happily deciding which characters were represesnting which rich and famous tech/cultural leaders they were depicting..
But I don't know who there people are so didn't get the joke. Even the pseudo Poirot detective was an unsympathetic character whose Southern accent kept slipping since it is played by a Brit.
Hmm... I hear Netflix is going to stop people from borrowing passwords to watch their stuff. Our family's streaming subscriptions are all in Ruby's name and I worry they will notice that she lives in the USA and stop us from watching their stuff.
Oh well: there is always the Piratebay I guess (copyright laws are lax in the Philippines but it's only a matter of time before they clamp down on them).
So anyway, I pulled out an old DVD that I brought with me: the Prince of Tides. which is not just about romance and the renewal of life by learning to love another, but about keeping secrets about the trauma that haunts you, and about learning to love one's dysfunctional family. (although the movie does not make clear the backstory of the extreme poverty and harsh life of the family that is behind his parent's dysfunctional choices ).
R rated, and recommended.
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