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Amy Avila, a student nurse anesthetist, works on an intricate anatomy drawing of the brain that she creates while studying on Nov. 16, 2021, at her Highland Park home. The drawings have been used for coloring by hospital workers to reduce stress. (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)
“If everyone is vaccinated except the littlest kids and the littlest kids are all from the same family, and visiting with grandparents, that’s a reasonably safe situation,” she said. “It’s the mixing of unvaccinated, or partially unvaccinated with other families, that starts to amplify that risk.”
I often find myself reacting to their style of parenting (i.e., running wild in restaurants) in a judgmental way, so it’s hard for me to separate what is good for their daughter in terms of guidance versus letting the child use another, possibly temporary, way to control the whole family.
On the way back, a father and his adult son paused their hike to chat, telling us they lived north of Arkansas’ capital, Little Rock. Been there, I said, but hadn’t realized the state has such natural beauty too. The older man nodded. “Folks not from around here,” he said, looking pointedly at us, “think Arkansas is just a bunch of hillbillies. It has everything it needs: farms, cities, wilderness. We could fence it off and be our own country.”
Black Bench Chicago founder Alex Sims applauds other speakers as the organization’s first cohort of graduates gathers Nov. 14 during an event at Tree House in River North. The organization launched in the spring of 2021 with the goal of training a new generation of Black leaders in politics, government, policy and advocacy. (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)
You can safely meet with people (certainly masked and outside), and you should do your very best to get plenty of fresh air and gentle exercise, preferably with a partner. Take note of your body’s reaction to stress and do your best to deliberately turn off the negative tape playing in your head. Replace it with, “I can do this. I’m safe.”
A grafted tree has the top of one kind of plant surgically attached to the roots of another kind. Usually, the two will grow together. The bottom plant, called the rootstock, provides the root system. It supplies water and nutrients to the top plant, called the scion, which consists of the trunk, branches and leaves.
Mather High School senior Marques Watts outside his home in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood on Nov. 6, 2021. Watts is a youth leader of Communities United, a survivor-led, grassroots, intergenerational, racial justice organization. (John J. Kim / Chicago Tribune)
It’s clear to me now that I’ll never know women, so please explain what just happened here: I met a woman on a dating app, and we had one of those perfect first dates – lots of laughs, lots of agreement, finishing each other’s sentences, easily planning the next date.
Ajimol Lukose, a senior director of nursing at Swedish Hospital, prayed daily for her patients as well as praying for scientists to discover medication and treatment. She recounts seeing her staffers sit at patients’ deathbeds, praying for them, holding their hands. “Because the family couldn’t be there, they were the people supporting them spiritually, holding a hand, saying a prayer, and letting them go, letting their soul go.”