#sick room

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"Because all living beings are subject to illness, I am ill as well. When all living beings are no longer ill, my illness will come to an end." 

Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa Sūtra

Imagine a sick man confined to a tiny room, visited by countless beings who somehow manage to squeeze inside. While obviously not practicing social distancing, the Buddhist story of Vimalakīrti's sick room is particularly relevant to our present pandemic.

Continued: https://unityinplurality.blogspot.com/2020/05/sick-room-contemplations.html

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Grand Duchess Tatiana recovering from Typhoid with her little brother Tsarevich Alexei giving her company, 1912.

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sick room, billy collins

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Chickenpox

Summer was the worst time to be sick, tucked up tight in bed, restrained by grandmother’s hospital corners, bullied by the clock’s resonant tick.

The room was stifling, even the sticky Lucozade was too warm to fizz, and the fly too drowsy to buzz and batter against the window.

Outside, neighbourhood children played, lawnmowers droned and a hose sprinkled, my grandfather whistled a jaunty tune, and…

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How To Prepare A Sick Room | The Things Found In A Sick Room - The Vintage Woman

Many people are ignorant of what constitutes good, nourishing, refreshing food and drink for sick people. The following dishes are all palatable and nourishing, and are very refreshing to an invalid. Every one should have these recipes for "Things for the sick room":

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The Well Stocked Sick Room

To decrease the chances of an infectious illness spreading and infecting other household members, it is important that every effort be made to keep the illness in a contained area. Having a sick room in the home can achieve this, as well as assist in limiting the number of people who have close contact with the sick person.

To ensure that the sickness is as contained as possible, set up the sick room in a bedroom or another separate room in the house. Ensure that the room has good lighting, a window that opens, and easy access to a personal bathroom with a sink and running water.

More: http://bit.ly/2oKxExi

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I don't think they're open...

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Papier Tigre — Personal Belongings 7" (Sick Room)

Seven-inch vinyl records are curious things. When they work they are spectacular pieces of art and music. When they don't they're rather expensive curios destined to sit on a shelf with the rest of your impressive 7-inch collection. It's always been like that I guess, but even more so in the download age. For every 7-inch I obsessed about (listening to the Husker Du cover of Eight Miles High over and over again on the Plaza Tavern's jukebox; flipping Mudhoney's Touch Me I'm Sick over again and again and again), there were 10 that I bought from touring bands that were relegated to a shelf and only listened to when I decided it was my duty to listen to ALL my 7-inches.

So when Ryan from Sick Room Records asked me to review the upcoming 7-inch by the French band Papier Tigre, I approached it with some trepidation. For one thing, I didn't even have the vinyl (yet) and there was only one song posted on-line. With only one song to review, it had to stand on its own with nothing else to support it — it had better be killer...

Well it's fucking killer. It's hooky as hell and uncoils itself in all sorts of unpredictable ways. You want touch points? Think a marvelously economic June of 44.  It's taut and expressive where Jof44 is languid and meditative but it still exhibits all the same jagged jazz-math of a bygone era. At 3:04, Personal Belongings says exactly what it needs to say without a scrap fat. At the same time, it's not nearly long enough, forcing you, as any good single does, to listen again and again and again.

Papier Tigre are currently on tour in the States and I would strongly encourage you to see them if for no other reason than to buy this record (I'm buying mine tonight).

— This post originally appeared on ToEleven.

7" by PAPIER TIGRE