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Know-How to Protect Yourself & Others

Wash your hands often

• Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds especially after you have been in a public place, or after blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing.
• It’s especially important to wash:
  • Before eating or preparing food
  • Before touching your face
  • After using the restroom
  • After leaving a public place
  • After blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing
  • After handling your cloth face covering
  • After changing a diaper
  • After caring for someone sick
  • After touching animals or pets
• If soap and water are not readily available, use a hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol. Cover all surfaces of your hands and rub them together until they feel dry.
• Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands.

Avoid close contact

• Inside your home: Avoid close contact with people who are sick.
  • If possible, maintain 6 feet between the person who is sick and other household members.
• Outside your home: Put 6 feet of distance between yourself and people who don’t live in your household.
  • Remember that some people without symptoms may be able to spread virus.
  • Stay at least 6 feet (about 2 arms’ length) from other people.
  • Keeping distance from others is especially important for people who are at higher risk of getting very sick.

Cover your mouth and nose with a cloth face cover when around others

• You could spread COVID-19 to others even if you do not feel sick.
• The cloth face cover is meant to protect other people in case you are infected.
• Everyone should wear a cloth face cover in public settings and when around people who don’t live in your household, especially when other social distancing measures are difficult to maintain.
  • Cloth face coverings should not be placed on young children under age 2, anyone who has trouble breathing, or is unconscious, incapacitated or otherwise unable to remove the mask without assistance.
• Do NOT use a facemask meant for a healthcare worker. Currently, surgical masks and N95 respirators are critical supplies that should be reserved for healthcare workers and other first responders.
• Continue to keep about 6 feet between yourself and others. The cloth face cover is not a substitute for social distancing.

Cover coughs and sneezes

• Always cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you cough or sneeze or use the inside of your elbow and do not spit.
• Throw used tissues in the trash.
• Immediately wash your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. If soap and water are not readily available, clean your hands with a hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol.

Clean and disinfect

• Clean AND disinfect frequently touched surfaces daily. This includes tables, doorknobs, light switches, countertops, handles, desks, phones, keyboards, toilets, faucets, and sinks.
• If surfaces are dirty, clean them. Use detergent or soap and water prior to disinfection.
• Then, use a household disinfectant. Most common EPA-registered household disinfectants will work.

 

 

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Random acts of kindness to heal humanity

We are bombarded with bad news on a daily basis. On a global level, we see and hear the horrific bombings and shootings to the hunger of our precious children in this world. Globally these feel far away to most of us as if we don’t have the ability to really make a difference on a global scale. We may experience this same feeling of being overwhelmed in our own lives, with being laid off of work to hearing our loved one was just recently diagnosed with cancer to a relationship breakup or simply not being able to find our keys amidst all of our stuff, which then makes us late for work. The possibilities are endless if we choose to focus on what battles we are facing or what we don’t have in life that we feel make us imperfect.

There is so much beauty in life and if we stay tuned in to the present moment we start to see the splendor all around us and if we choose to, we can be a part of this beauty and help it grow. Simply go to Dr. Google and type in positive news or good news and you will see the amazing things happening globally and even in our own back yard, listening to the excitement of the neighborhood children.

There have been many movies that give us inspiration in helping others and giving kindness to all. Pay It Forward was a fictional movie where an eleven-year-old child decides to participate in a random act of kindness and then asks the receiver to pay it forward to three other people. It then becomes a ripple effect and hundreds of people are affected by this deed. Another movie Little Red Wagon is based on a true story about a seven-year-old boy who founded an organization to aid the 1.3 million homeless children in the United States. He then walked 4,263 miles across the United States between 2007 and 2010 to help raise awareness and money for homeless children. We see these amazing stories on the big screen, but the truth is that random acts of kindness are happening around us all of the time.

When we focus on the positive things in life they will grow and when we spread kindness and joy to others it will grow, the ripples will continue on a global scale and one by one all of us can help heal humanity and ourselves by a simple act of kindness.

There are so many ways that one can spread kindness, simply offering a smile, lending a hand to someone who needs help, sending a letter to someone, complimenting a total stranger, creating colorful lunch bags for the homeless that contain lots of goodies, handing a flower out to random people walking down the street, giving up your place in line to another, and if you’re really determined to spread this love and kindness get a group together where weekly or monthly you come up with ideas of helping others in some way and you do it as a team. You don’t have to spend a ton of money to spread kindness, you can simply give from your heart.

Studies have shown that when we spread kindness to others, not only does it help heal the recipient, it also creates many health benefits for the giver. According to this research, kindness lowers blood pressure by increasing Oxytocin which releases a chemical called nitric oxide, which dilates the blood vessels. Kindness increases happiness according to a study done at Harvard Business School surveying 136 countries. Kindness increases the oxytocin, the “love hormone”. Kindness reduces anxiety according to a study conducted at the University of British Colombia, where individuals performed at least six acts of kindness a week. Researchers found after a month there was a significant increase in a positive mood, a decrease in anxiety, and an increase in relationship satisfaction. Kindness decreases pain by increasing endorphins, which are natural painkillers. Kindness increases serotonin, a feel-good hormone, which decreases depression. A study conducted at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine found that kindness delays mortality reduces depression and increases life satisfaction. Kindness increases energy levels according to a study at UC Berkley. Kindness reduces stress by decreasing cortisol levels, the stress hormone.

The amazing thing about giving kindness is that not only will it help you heal, it also has similar effects for the recipient and the ripple begins and soon the ripples in the river will reach all of humanity and feed each one of us because when we spread kindness and feel joy others will too! I challenge each and every one of you to start implementing random acts of kindness today and reap the benefits for yourself and the world!

   

 

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Beach Bungalow Banquet made easy!

 

Pina Isolada

Ingredients:

1 ½ oz Ron Barceló Dark Series Rum
½ cup of frozen coconut or soursop pulp
½ cup diced frozen pineapple
2 oz coconut cream
1 oz coconut water

Directions:

Add all ingredients into a blender

blend until smooth and frosty

Pour into a daiquiri glass.

Garnish rim with toasted coconuts.

Top off with coconut flakes.

 

 

Quarantini

Ingredients:

1.5 oz Ron Barceló Dark Series Rum
1 oz Jalapeno-Kiwi-Cucumber Health-Ade kombucha
1 oz Aloe Vera Juice
4 slices muddled cucumber

 

Directions:

Muddle cucumbers.

Add ice and remaining ingredients.

Shake vigorously

Strain into a martini glass.

Garnish with a cucumber slice or jalapeno slice without the seeds for a touch of spice

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Shadow Puppets

 

Count the TP Squares

Play solitaire with 51 cards

Create prank signs to tape to the window

Sprayed disinfectant on the mail, now I don’t know who I owe money to

I’ve already washed the skin off my hands, now I’m almost out of soap

For the hypochondriac, I just discovered their is no filter in the air purifier

 

Even the Zombies are running from me…

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