I've always been a bit of a history buff, so interpreting what I see on cemetery markers is of interest to me. The Barney family doubtless had an adventurous life. Most of their children were born BEFORE A.I. headed to California to seek his fortune. It appears that didn't happen.
Every life is an adventure. As we live it, it consumes us... it is obviously all we know. Perhaps this subject holds more interest for me since the coronavirus is reminding me of my own mortality. I remember visiting Sue's home in Queens, New York, many years ago. There was a stack of photo albums on the bookcase and we began going through them. Sue told me about her family. At the bottom of the stack was an album filled with photos that she didn't recall seeing. We took the album downstairs to show her mother and she didn't know any of those people.
In a hundred years it is likely NO ONE will know who we are. These lives that consumed our attention, that seemed so important, really are little more than the flickering of a firefly...
In the Lalitavistara Sutra, the Buddha says:
"The universe and its inhabitants
are as ephemeral as the clouds
in the sky;
Being born and dying are like a spectacular dance or
drama show.
The duration of our lives is like a
flash of lightning or a firefly's
brief twinkle;
Everything passes like the flowing waters of a steep waterfall."
CGrindahl wrote:
I've always been a bit of a history buff, so interpreting what I see on cemetery markers is of interest to me. The Barney family doubtless had an adventurous life. Most of their children were born BEFORE A.I. headed to California to seek his fortune. It appears that didn't happen.
Every life is an adventure. As we live it, it consumes us... it is obviously all we know. Perhaps this subject holds more interest for me since the coronavirus is reminding me of my own mortality. I remember visiting Sue's home in Queens, New York, many years ago. There was a stack of photo albums on the bookcase and we began going through them. Sue told me about her family. At the bottom of the stack was an album filled with photos that she didn't recall seeing. We took the album downstairs to show her mother and she didn't know any of those people.
In a hundred years it is likely NO ONE will know who we are. These lives that consumed our attention, that seemed so important, really are little more than the flickering of a firefly...
graytrekker wrote:
"...and our little life Is rounded with a sleep."
While one is always aware of one's mortality I really appreciated how insignificant my existence is in cosmic terms as I watched dawn break while at the helm of a 42ft yacht in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. We'd had a rough night and I was happy to helm the yacht , alone on deck, for about 6 hours. Sea, stars and sky nearest land - St Helena island about 900 miles away. Not a religious experience but real joy in being there. Hard to explain.
I have a lot of pages to catch up on due to the fact that I got hit with an illness that started ~3 weeks ago.
My Doctor said it was Covid-19 but given I was not admitted to hospital I have not been formally tested. The testing strategy/capacity in the UK is a joke. Ideally I'd like to have an anti-body test but.......
I had all of the usual symptoms. I felt rough one day and then it hit hard, really hard. I shut the lid on my company laptop at 6pm, went to bed and woke up 22 hours later. That was the first of 10 days in bed, unable to function, living in some kind of fevered, zombie state where even going to the bathroom was a physical challenge. Really weird. Worst 2 weeks I can ever remember. There were a couple of times I just wanted it all to end. Hard to explain. Dropped my weight from 76kg to 71kg in the process.
The good news is that I am beginning to feel human again and went back to work this week(from home of course). Fatigue is still an issue so I have to pace myself. Climbing the stairs in my house leaves me breathless. I ventured outside into the sunshine yesterday and even bending down and holding a position to take this 55/2.8 macro left me gasping for air.
Hopefully I will have the enthusiasm to use the camera again over this holiday weekend.
DeltaSigma wrote:
I have a lot of pages to catch up on due to the fact that I got hit with an illness that started ~3 weeks ago.
My Doctor said it was Covid-19 but given I was not admitted to hospital I have not been formally tested. The testing strategy/capacity in the UK is a joke. Ideally I'd like to have an anti-body test but.......
I had all of the usual symptoms. I felt rough one day and then it hit hard, really hard. I shut the lid on my company laptop at 6pm, went to bed and woke up 22 hours later. That was the first of 10 days in bed, unable to function, living in some kind of fevered, zombie state where even going to the bathroom was a physical challenge. Really weird. Worst 2 weeks I can ever remember. There were a couple of times I just wanted it all to end. Hard to explain. Dropped my weight from 76kg to 71kg in the process.
The good news is that I am beginning to feel human again and went back to work this week(from home of course). Fatigue is still an issue so I have to pace myself. Climbing the stairs in my house leaves me breathless. I ventured outside into the sunshine yesterday and even bending down and holding a position to take this 55/2.8 macro left me gasping for air.
Hopefully I will have the enthusiasm to use the camera again over this holiday weekend.
DeltaSigma wrote:
I have a lot of pages to catch up on due to the fact that I got hit with an illness that started ~3 weeks ago.
My Doctor said it was Covid-19 but given I was not admitted to hospital I have not been formally tested. The testing strategy/capacity in the UK is a joke. Ideally I'd like to have an anti-body test but.......
I had all of the usual symptoms. I felt rough one day and then it hit hard, really hard. I shut the lid on my company laptop at 6pm, went to bed and woke up 22 hours later. That was the first of 10 days in bed, unable to function, living in some kind of fevered, zombie state where even going to the bathroom was a physical challenge. Really weird. Worst 2 weeks I can ever remember. There were a couple of times I just wanted it all to end. Hard to explain. Dropped my weight from 76kg to 71kg in the process.
The good news is that I am beginning to feel human again and went back to work this week(from home of course). Fatigue is still an issue so I have to pace myself. Climbing the stairs in my house leaves me breathless. I ventured outside into the sunshine yesterday and even bending down and holding a position to take this 55/2.8 macro left me gasping for air.
Hopefully I will have the enthusiasm to use the camera again over this holiday weekend.
DeltaSigma wrote:
I have a lot of pages to catch up on due to the fact that I got hit with an illness that started ~3 weeks ago.
My Doctor said it was Covid-19 but given I was not admitted to hospital I have not been formally tested. The testing strategy/capacity in the UK is a joke. Ideally I'd like to have an anti-body test but.......
I had all of the usual symptoms. I felt rough one day and then it hit hard, really hard. I shut the lid on my company laptop at 6pm, went to bed and woke up 22 hours later. That was the first of 10 days in bed, unable to function, living in some kind of fevered, zombie state where even going to the bathroom was a physical challenge. Really weird. Worst 2 weeks I can ever remember. There were a couple of times I just wanted it all to end. Hard to explain. Dropped my weight from 76kg to 71kg in the process.
The good news is that I am beginning to feel human again and went back to work this week(from home of course). Fatigue is still an issue so I have to pace myself. Climbing the stairs in my house leaves me breathless. I ventured outside into the sunshine yesterday and even bending down and holding a position to take this 55/2.8 macro left me gasping for air.
Hopefully I will have the enthusiasm to use the camera again over this holiday weekend.
Thanks for the kind wishes everyone.
My wife had a milder version a week or so before. A few people at her workplace were ill but only after the office had shutdown and people were working from home. So I would surmise that this things spreads before symptoms appear.
Plenty data to show that women can fight this off better than men.
Sitting in the garden soaking up some vitamin D. Really beautiful day here in the south of the UK.
Colin leighton w wrote:
Man, what an ordeal! Glad you're on the mend. I hope the rest of the family are fine.
Great to have you back with us Colin. What you describe sounds exactly like what I'm reading people experience with Covid-19. I'm thinking of Chris Cuomo's reports on CNN, for example. I don't know whether physical isolation will be effective in contending with this pandemic, but it is pretty clear that the more contact we have with others, the more likely it is we'll be exposed to the virus. As an older person, I don't feel I can play games with this, so I take sheltering-in-place very seriously. Interesting, two of the three stores I've visited in the last month have installed plastic shields between the checker and customer. I'm guessing that when Trader Joe's closes its stores in Marin next Sunday, that they'll be installing something similar. The new normal perhaps?
Take exquisite care of yourself Colin. This is not a virus to treat lightly, regardless of where one lives. No, we're not immortal, so at some point in time we'll "shuffle off this mortal coil," but lets not rush the process...
Definitely sounds like Covid-19 for sure, bummer that you caught it. Testing in the US is also a joke, sadly. Make sure you don't push yourself too hard while recovering though.
DeltaSigma wrote:
I have a lot of pages to catch up on due to the fact that I got hit with an illness that started ~3 weeks ago.
My Doctor said it was Covid-19 but given I was not admitted to hospital I have not been formally tested. The testing strategy/capacity in the UK is a joke. Ideally I'd like to have an anti-body test but.......
I had all of the usual symptoms. I felt rough one day and then it hit hard, really hard. I shut the lid on my company laptop at 6pm, went to bed and woke up 22 hours later. That was the first of 10 days in bed, unable to function, living in some kind of fevered, zombie state where even going to the bathroom was a physical challenge. Really weird. Worst 2 weeks I can ever remember. There were a couple of times I just wanted it all to end. Hard to explain. Dropped my weight from 76kg to 71kg in the process.
The good news is that I am beginning to feel human again and went back to work this week(from home of course). Fatigue is still an issue so I have to pace myself. Climbing the stairs in my house leaves me breathless. I ventured outside into the sunshine yesterday and even bending down and holding a position to take this 55/2.8 macro left me gasping for air.
Hopefully I will have the enthusiasm to use the camera again over this holiday weekend.
Stalked one of my cats around the garden with the 180/2.8 for an hour or so.
The outdoors is new to her so everything is exciting.
She didn't stay still long enough so nailing focus was an issue. Got a couple of keepers though.
DeltaSigma wrote:
Stalked one of my cats around the garden with the 180/2.8 for an hour or so.
The outdoors is new to her so everything is exciting.
She didn't stay still long enough so nailing focus was an issue. Got a couple of keepers though.
