Two Weeks to Flatten the Curve NYC 2020-2022 (Two Years Flattened)
I’ve been keeping a video journal since Covid-19 and all of this began. This is a small part of that combined with footage from January 2022 in Midtown Manhattan late at night. -Ooana
Lockdowns, George Floyd, Essential Workers, Hope, Kindness, Anger, Lies, Resolve, Terror….I have so much saved and I need to find a way to preserve the story because I don’t think NYC will ever be what she was before this betrayal.
Vaccinated and Unvaccinated have been authorized by our great leaders to be able to mix and mingle ...
Art work by Tom Byrne, Florence Italy @artytom on twitter http://www.tjbyrne.com/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlFZVYbuSgA
‘The Second Coming’ was written a century ago by W. B. Yeats in 1919
I created a video of edited footage edited together with it recited during the summer of 2020.
I’m revisiting it for a second time...in another way.
From the Wiki:
The poem was written in 1919 in the aftermath of the First World War[4] and the beginning of the Irish War of Independence that followed the Easter Rising, at a time before the British Government decided to send in the Black and Tans to Ireland. Yeats used the phrase "the second birth" instead of "the Second Coming" in his first drafts.[5]
The poem is also connected to the 1918–1919 flu pandemic: In the weeks preceding Yeats's writing of the poem, his pregnant wife Georgie Hyde-Lees caught the virus and was very close to death. The highest death rates of the pandemic were among pregnant women—in some areas, they had up to a 70 percent death rate. While his wife was convalescing, he wrote "The Second Coming".
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Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3biTt7drI8
One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.
I lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.
I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster.
—Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident
the art of losing’s not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5KEMho0X-g