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SN 48.41 Jarā Sutta: Old Age

“When young, one is subject to aging; when healthy, subject to illness; when alive, subject to death.…”

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A quotation from Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1747 ed.)

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Quote of the day, 22 May: St. Joachina de Vedruna

Escorial, March 12, 1824

Dearest and beloved daughter Teresita:

You made me very happy when you wrote to me that you were cheerful. Trust in the good Jesus, in the Virgin, and in the saints, who can do more than all the medicines of men.

My dear daughter, I am very happy because all of you are cheerful. Love your brother and Rosita very much, and God will love you. I am sending you the shawl and the bag you had made for yourself, and two more ribbons; one may be useful for Marieta. I am sending you the little basket that Anita gave you.

Love the good Jesus very much. When I come, I’ll give you a very big hug. Beg heaven to bless you.

Your humble mother,
Joaquina de Mas

Saint Joachina de Vedruna

Letter 12, to her daughter Teresa

Note: Saint Joachina de Vedruna is replying to a letter from her daughter Teresita, who was ill with a serious eye condition. She encourages her to place her trust in God and to love her siblings: the older ones who were caring for her like parents, and the younger sister with whom she was living.

Vedruna, J. de 1825, Carta 12 to her daughter Teresa, in Epistolario J. de Vedruna, scanned edn by Marta Sarti, Carmelite Sisters of Charity of Vedruna, Barcelona. Available at: https://vedruna.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/5-Epistolario-J.-de-Vedruna.pdf

Translation from the Spanish text is the blogger’s own work product and may not be reproduced without permission.

Featured image: This 1903 oil portrait of Saint Joachina de Vedruna was painted by Francesc Morell i Cornet (1845–1916), based on a retouched original photograph. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Also wear masks or respirators. (Except the snood type ones. The rest are all better than nothing or *way* better than nothing.) Don't travel or commute to work when ill.
Advocate and vote for better conditions when working, parenting, and disabled. Join a union or start one at your workplace. Push for no-fault sick leave, especially when local infectious outbreaks flare up.
Check what air filtration systems are installed where people gather, mainly indoor spaces. Consider public transport, at work, schools, public buildings, and manufacturing. Ask some organisations what their air quality data and upgrade plans are.

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“She wasted and grew so thin that she no longer was a little girl, but the shadow of a little girl. The flame of her life flickered so faintly that it appeared sufficient to blow at it to extinguish it. Stas understood that death did not have to wait for a third attack to take her and he expected it any day or any hour.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz

#Bot #Quote #Africa #Death #DeathAndDying #Disease #Malaria #Sickness #Wilderness

"Historians will tell you the Black Death spread through fleas, through rats, through trade routes that carried more than goods between cities.

They will tell you it moved quickly, that it devastated populations, that entire households could fall within days.

They will not tell you how people knew it had already begun.

Not officially."

Then the illness had already taken hold." #blackplague #horror #rats #plague #sickness #epidemic #thebutcheredwriterssubstack

" ...People who cannot or will not enter a shared #reality with a grounding in the deep sustaining truths of universal #human #dignity, the strength and beauty of #diversity, and our dependance upon a naturally #interconnected #world, will always experience diversity, human dignity, strength, beauty, and #mutual #dependance and #interconnectivity as a #confrontation, no matter how subtly or overtly these qualities appear in their lives. Those opposed to #evidence and human decency will experience any exposure to evidence and human dignity as a confrontation, yet evidence and human dignity is what we must embrace if we would enter a #shared reality based on #truth rather than nonsense, and on #healing rather than #abuse.
...
if they are unwilling [to hear uncomfortable truths], we must leave them to the consequence of their false reality—not because we would not see them healed, but because we have used discernment to understand that they are not #aligned with healing themselves or our #systems.

We must leave them to consequence, because we would be aligned with the truth that our #sickness is #collective and #systemic, that we therefore must work at creating systems and #institutions of healing, wherein abuse is not incentivized and rewarded, wherein healing is seen as its own reward. ..."

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I am sick

https://philosophyviaphotos.wordpress.com/2026/04/25/i-am-sick/