She knew that others were suffering, but for the moment, her pillows fluffed, her coffee done exactly the way she loved it and brought to her bedside, she felt she was at the Tokyo Hilton, and the world was at peace.
by Monkey's Dad March 29, 2020
A texted signal meaning "I'll live".
A silent life-affirmation, a promise of survival from someone who has been injured, is gravely ill, incapacitated or in pain.
A silent life-affirmation, a promise of survival from someone who has been injured, is gravely ill, incapacitated or in pain.
Lying intubated in the COVID ward, she could not speak and had no strength to respond to those who were writing, expressing their concern. To each, she simply texted an olive emoji, and all was understood - "I'll live."
by Monkey's Dad August 03, 2021
By late April, it still had not occurred to anyone in government to question whether the American slaughterhouse shutdowns, due to huge numbers of worker infections, might be a signal that coronavirus was animal-borne.
by Monkey's Dad April 29, 2020
A suddenly-healthy individual whose aversion to being close to other people, or - gasp! - being touched, was very recently seen as a disorder. In these stressful times he is a paragon of sanity.
I don't want to seem like a sociophobe, but please... the six-foot rule? Don't breathe on me, don't touch me, don't even look at my food!
by Monkey's Dad March 14, 2020
An expression of the utmost dignity and grace, not to be mistaken for projection when used to characterize a perceived enemy.
“I don’t know what Kellyanne did to her deranged loser of a husband,” the president tweeted, “but it must have been really bad.”
by Monkey's Dad July 12, 2020
What Rush Limbaugh claimed to possess. Which says everything anyone will ever need, or want, to know about him.
"I have talent on loan from God."
by Monkey's Dad February 17, 2021
Who we were on the planet, and who we might become if we survived, was a question best faced with humility. Maybe our purpose was to serve other life, the animals and the trees, and to let go the notion that the earth and its creatures exist to serve humanity.
by Monkey's Dad March 22, 2020