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Hire An Older Worker (Covid19 meme)
This flyer was posted on the bulletin board at my office (temporary job with the US Census Bureau). It is a legitimate form published by the US Department of Labor - Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) encouraging employers to Hire An Older Worker.
Obviously, I added the parenthetical phrase containing too much punctuation and too many capitalized words (because the actual form is humorously over punctuated/capitalized). The form is about the size of a large book-marker, probably designed by a retired grammar teacher who idolized Ben Franklin (200 years and still not a more appropriate poster-codger?), and they had no training in visual design.
If you think my attempt at humor is insensitive, cool your jets high-speed and consider the number of elderly who will not get tested by a doctor because the Medicare program they are enrolled in has a deductible or a co-pay (or both) and a $100 doctor bill means a week without groceries.
Medicare-For-All is not the gold standard (no matter what Bernie Sanders says). Most elderly people I know (or have known) carry an additional insurance policy to cover the 20% Medicare does not cover, or to bridge the gap between the exponentially large cost of prescription medications (not covered by Medicare or Medicaid) or to pay for anything over Medicare's annual cap.
Veterans-Health-Care-For-All is the tarnished-gold standard. With all the flaws of a VA hospital or clinic, they do not send you a bill, or cover only 80% or have a cap on annual services.
Obviously, I added the parenthetical phrase containing too much punctuation and too many capitalized words (because the actual form is humorously over punctuated/capitalized). The form is about the size of a large book-marker, probably designed by a retired grammar teacher who idolized Ben Franklin (200 years and still not a more appropriate poster-codger?), and they had no training in visual design.
If you think my attempt at humor is insensitive, cool your jets high-speed and consider the number of elderly who will not get tested by a doctor because the Medicare program they are enrolled in has a deductible or a co-pay (or both) and a $100 doctor bill means a week without groceries.
Medicare-For-All is not the gold standard (no matter what Bernie Sanders says). Most elderly people I know (or have known) carry an additional insurance policy to cover the 20% Medicare does not cover, or to bridge the gap between the exponentially large cost of prescription medications (not covered by Medicare or Medicaid) or to pay for anything over Medicare's annual cap.
Veterans-Health-Care-For-All is the tarnished-gold standard. With all the flaws of a VA hospital or clinic, they do not send you a bill, or cover only 80% or have a cap on annual services.
Sommerzeit's Mailbox
other mailbox art:
AULDLANGSYNE's Mailbox
Avril Poisson's Mailbox
Avril Poisson's Mailbox
ÔSTARA's Mailbox
Serling's Mailbox
some image excerpts by Chad Abromovich at Obscure Vermont and by Jamie Wheeler
Serling's Mailbox
some image excerpts by Chad Abromovich at Obscure Vermont and by Jamie Wheeler
trichotillomania or alopecia or scabies (oh-my)
"Nah. Tray full-a pumpkin bread. That'z zit."
"Paws. How many brightcycles has it been GerAld? Feels like more than two full paws!"
"RanDal, dere'z corn-grease in-a cage up here. Also, the tallones up-next-over-there still haz thiztle seedz. But GerAld don mind sweet bread here. Not like da-normal brown stuff. Kind-a niz. Muz-a gave tithe thiz mornin cauze not hard yet."
"Yea. Saw tallone with colors ontop placing the tithe two naps ago. Went down to mine because sand-colored-quiet-predator was out at the same time. Then forgot. Yea."
"Smell anythin down low? Whoah. Da-spook goin on wid your tail RanDal! You tryin-a look zactly like GerAld?"
"Oh this? Yea. Well. No. RahNee said. After over visiting yours after last-longsleep. RahNee especially appreciated how LouAnn has used all GerAld's tailshed as lining. Said it was shit-hole amazing how much warmer and more comfortable Ger-Ann's is. So. RahNee pulled some of RanDal's. To line Ran-Nee's. Oh."
"Old-silent-owlz up-da-moonz-azz dat muz-a hurt! Mine fallz out on itz own. Know all bout dat? Right RanDal? Bout all my rattailz GerAld hairz?"
"Yea. Well. No. LouAnn told RahNee. Last greencycle. Tailshed runs in GerAld kin, yea."
"That'z waz laz-greencyclez story. Now. But, fore last bright moon. Went spookin. Round-acroz danger-stone river. Near the widewater crossin?"
"Wow. Scary. Never been that far. Scary-wow, wow."
"Saw DelMar wid samez tailshedz."
"Thought DelMar sqasked by machine on rocky-stone river. Cackel-black-owl food. Thought?"
"Dat waz DalMar. Iz not Dall. Dell. DelMar?"
"Yea. Well. No. New name. Yea."
"DelMar'z no kin of GerAld. DelMar iz tuftearz-kin. Not obviouz. Have-ta look close. Now. DelMar iz startin kin with ShaLoo. RanDal knowz bout ShaLoo? RanDal liztenin?"
"Yea. Well. No. Hear loud-black-clumx-predator. Claws on wall. Might need to climb. If tall one opens wall. Listen. Know little about ShaLoo from other-talk. Yea."
"ShaLoo haz bezt tailhair lined kin den. Ever. Bezt bezt. Get me?"
"Yea. Well. No. You nap with DelMar in, in Del-Loo? Yea?"
"No! Shitz-bath RanDal. Lizten. Two greencyclez back. GerAld waz spookin and ShaLoo wanted ta spook. GerAld spent almoz entire floodz-cycle in ShaLoo'z. Next moon I lose a patch of tailhair. Also. DelMar never had tailshed before now. And he tells me..."
"Oh. ShaLoo is giving it away. Oh."
"Atz right. RanDal? Maybez not tell RahNee? LouAnn might chaze me outta the much warmer and more comfortable tailshed-lined Ger-Ann's. Maybe wait til coldcyclez overz an mudcyclez started ta tellz RahNee?"
"Sure. One condition. Nap together for a few paws, until a patch falls out of mine. The old three-hole-skunk-burrow lost smell but is much-still-axoided, sure."
"Whatz da fox-bat-spook ..?!"
"Nap GerAld. Not spook. RanDal and GerAld are kin. Does RanDal remember GarAnn's sister was RayDol's nan? Remember RanDal? Nap."
"Who knowz kin back seven nanz?"
"RahNee knows kin back twenty nanz. RahNee talks. RanDal listens. Want to start kin with RahNee and never spook again. Tailshed is a prize RahNee will cherish. No more plucking pain for RanDal and RanNee's will be warm and comfy."
"Okz. Napz it iz, cuzin RanDal, GerAld'z rattailed kin. Napz it iz. And. GerAld'z gonna borrow comfy from RanDal. Warm and comfy. Nize."
Haiku 装飾 舗装 5-7-5 俳句 Asfault Ernate
snow on asphalt – trees
pertness – nude ’tween neck and knees
fingers – rule of threes
image excerpt by Craig Morey at MoreyStudio
All the Albans
o that quiet closeout dimming pretty wonderful February day
as we carefully creep, using don’t-fall-shins, in St Albans Bay
not a-top the crack-solid homonymous bay of Lake Champlain
but on its shore in the village bafflingly bearing its samename
as we slush thru a concentrated current of babypoo sewer gas
I must wonder why St Albans Town surrounds with all its mass
fools following foolish footsteps — severe imagination-dearth
or, did Albans Town gouge Albans City from mid-self in mirth
Albans: Point, Bays, Shire, Town, City & English protomartyr
lost their mind and their head (summer add a boating harbor)
guillotine blade St Albans Town, jurisd-enclave St Albans City
taxservice puzzle-zones: could smell a source of winter shitty
other Vermont uniquenesses:
ÔSTARA's Mailbox
Santa Claus' Mailbox
Serling's Mailbox
some image excerpts by Jamie Wheeler, SALLY MANN, Caroline Jensen, and muyestillo
Serling's Mailbox
some image excerpts by Jamie Wheeler, SALLY MANN, Caroline Jensen, and muyestillo
modicum of self-awareness
Normal is everyone.
NEFND is actively not recruiting.
Consider yourself a nonmember of the nonexistent fellowship of the neurodiverse? Then, I have your nonmembership card. Tell me where to send it.
When you pushed the button to power the object, which you are currently looking at, you were thinking concretely. This is me—as writer—drawing attention to the fact that you—as reader—are touching tangible objects (even if you are floating in space's micro-gravity, without clothing, listening to a galactic podcast of these words, your entire body is touching the nitrogen-oxygen compound, which you are breathing in). The objects you are touching exist. Time is passing as you read. All this is your individual empirical reality.
(Even if someone ink-on-paper-ized this essay for an unfortunate someone with no electric-power)—everyone's brain gathers information from their senses. All empirical knowledge is gained from our senses. Time may pass at different speeds for different people (a scientific fact for the hypothetical person in space compared to the hypothetical person reading by candlelight) but that fact is not empirical. That fact is an abstract concept.
If you can think abstractly, when you were reading the two previous parenthetical phrases (which both began with the word even) you briefly pictured—in your mind’s eye—a naked person floating in space, breathing Nitrox, and a person on earth reading by candlelight.
If your mind’s eye did not engage—there may be another way to determine if you are capable of abstract thought.
Think about what makes up the person who is you. Consider your past thoughts and actions as well as your plans for your future self. If what you visibly 'look like' to others / in a mirror / on social media, intrudes into your thoughts, push those images into the background. Where do "you fit" into the following characteristics:
- What are some of your personal values? How important are they? List five in order of importance.
- Specifically: If you value honesty in yourself (and others) how often do you catch yourself being dishonest? Do you force yourself to tell hard truths or do you slip into easy white lies? Do you apologize when you have been untruthful or do you find excuses for continuing to be dishonest?
- Some examples of values: trustworthiness, work ethic, punctuality, empathy, spacial-awareness, quality of your listening and observing, health awareness, spend-thriftiness, forthrightness, selfishness vs selflessness, mettle.
- Think about a few pass-times or hobbies which are important to you. Do you set time aside for yourself and the mental/physical endeavors you enjoy or are you a "people pleaser" who prefers to participate in the pass-times of others? Are there any changes you might prefer to make when considering your current dynamic?
- Are you happy? Content? What is your well-being most connected to or influenced by? (e.g. wealth, education, love, creativity, career, self-awareness, geographic location)
- What is it about yourself that most pleases you?
- When / where / with whom are you most content?
- What (within your control) could you change to improve your situation?
- Future planning plays how important a role to your present self?
- How often have you accomplished previous plans you made?
- If you think planning for your future is important, but rarely accomplished previous plans, are you Ok with this conflict between desire and outcome? Is there something you could do to alter this pattern of behavior?
- What habit(s) or routine(s) do you least admire in yourself?
- Examples: procrastination, addiction, ability/inability to "say no", ability/inability to confront or accept confrontation, openness to praise and criticism, laziness, gluttony.
In my previous article on Asperger's I stated, '...NEFND only requests its nonmembers strive to possess a modicum of self-awareness...', By considering the above characteristics you have not only thought abstractly about yourself, you began the process of becoming self-aware. The next step involves focusing on details.
Everyone's characteristics (like in my analogy of a Venn-diagram) change when they are viewed as a whole—one on top of the other. Some characteristics are completely covered by others (e.g. nobody knows your flavor of sexual fetish unless you share it). Other characteristics are at-times hidden and other-times not-hidden because of timing and opportunity (the only people who know you suck at Karaoke are the other bar patrons).
Your examination of the gestalt that is you requires a willingness to determine what part(s) of your behavior(s) could be causing friction with people around you (or, within yourself). Improving your own well-being is not simple. But the first step is becoming aware that you have the power to improve you.
Final point: When a human resources employer asks you to, "Tell them a recent challenge that you have overcome," they do not want to hear another applicant explain their struggles with being a perfectionist; they are just trying to determine if you are self-aware. They want to hire people who are open to criticism, can apologize when they make a mistake, and are capable of empathizing with co-workers. Become self-aware. Then your answer to that question can be a brief explanation on how you overcame that challenge.
more values and abstract thought observations:
NEFND
In a prior article about my Asperger's traits I explain the impetus behind the design of the nefnd emblem. At the risk of redundancy, the acronym NEFND—approximately the word for named or for committee in Icelandic (Íslenska)—only requests its nonmembers strive to possess a modicum of self-awareness, humor, and a functioning conscience. There are millions of proud qualified-nonmembers; I am one.
The nonexistent fellowship of the neurodiverse (NEFND) recommends—to qualified and unqualified alike—that the engendered behaviors, resulting from the differently-wired neurons of qualified-nonmembers, be considered prima facie routinely accepted. Normal is everyone. Qualified-nonmembers should not be coerced to conform to the behaviors of unqualified-nonmembers, nor should attempts be made to fix, repair, or cure their (our) non-pathological behaviors.
At the risk of being crudely re-redundant: normal is everyone. Nefnd is actively not recruiting. If you consider yourself a nonmember, you are. Non-membership cards are a cut-paste-print away (albeit, the clear plastic 2.5 inch squares will require you to contact me - I am giving them away - I will mail you one).
more nefnd details:
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