Bring On The Bling

 
Summer will be soon push through the rain that mists the streets outside. Storms slash across the country, but the ice is melting and the birds are singing. Nature is perfectly beautiful.

Sitting indoors with a steaming coffee again feels so, decadent. Un-mittened fingers on the keyboard and music floating below live human conversations.  Nostalgic memories of a pre-covid world. No zoom fatigue here.  Pure, vibrating life energies. 

Vaccinated or not, masks are off. We are sucking in the fresh air of liberation. For a breath, we can  ignore the incoming wave of chaos coming due to lack of a unified Federal platform for validation and records of real vaccinations.  Needless to say, the touted "honor system" is just plain stupid.  Makes one wonder how our hard earned tax dollars are being spent.

Americans love a challenge and this one is proving less than usual. Anyone with laptop and printer can pop these out in a New York minute. It will be interesting to watch how summer travel outside the US  balances economy vs lives and a new spread of Covid.  Make sure those tickets are refundable, just in case.

How quickly we return to "normal".  The workers of America are again cloaked in invisibility.  "Heroes of 2020" are now "lazy scoundrels" with outlandish demands for living wages and environments not toxic to the soul. The audacity! We do not clap for them at night anymore. 

Capitalist America is heroically fighting back in defence of profit margins.  Like Exxon, they may be a bit slow on the up-take.  Oil and employee abuse are so "pre-pandemic".  The desire for a sustainable planet and human dignity have been unmasked by the virus that continues to plague our planet. Gen Z is not willing to pay the price of the old  "normal" and damn right too.   Go Gen Z!     As I sit here, basking in the joy of sitting in a coffee shop again, I feel a shade of sadness. Is empathy so hard?  

Is that $1.oo dirty piece of paper worth more than a life? Money is only as powerful as our belief in it.  BitCoiners know this and banks tremble lest we, as The People understand and act on this.  Convenience can be so soothing and, distracting. Amazon, our new world government, is built on this concept.  Hmmmm. 

 If there is a He/She God in play, He/She just sent me an Angel disguised as the Bling Fairy. His halo is a yellow cap.  I am blind-sided again by the erratic nature of human goodness. Myron Boyer is 72 years old and has brooches pinned all across his tee-shirt. I am distracted from the virtual world to the current reality.  I am curious.   Ha! What IS his story?  He asks me to pick a favorite from his shirt display. A pin of a lady painting stands out to me. Smiling he plucks it off his shirt and hands it to me. I have been spontaneously  "gifted". It seems  Myron Boyer, aka The "Bling Fairy" has spent over 6 years giving away sparkly pins to strangers. Not only does he give them away to anyone he feels "needs a little sparkle in their day", but he spends his own money buying them.  Turning dirty dollars into moments of happiness to strangers.  Myron began his sparkling after the death of a close friend from leukemia and never stopped. He found giving happiness was addictive. 

As we dash to the exit signs and embrace being "outside" again let us not forget the lessons of 2020. All people deserve kindness. Human dignity is Not for sale for the lowest wages. A smile costs nothing but brings enormous profit. If we are to survive on our lovely planet, we truly are, all in this together.  Bring some bling into a strangers life today. Humanity requires it.  💜