Find the best & important things first...and don't wait to treasure them.
The possibility of unfaithful electors was put to rest as each of the 306 votes went to President-elect Joe Biden. The last six weeks have challenged our government. We've seen some try to manipulate the election results, but officials from both parties have upheld the vote.
Waiting for the Northern Lights in Sweden, these people have dug a hole and built a fire to keep warm!
The world waited 400 years for the convergence of Saturn and Jupiter on the Winter Solstice, December 21, 2020.
Less dramatic, but still beautiful, I don't have to wait so long for a sunset or the bay tide to come in..
But longer for students to return to school in person
Britain’s National Health Service delivered its first shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine on Tuesday, opening a mass vaccination campaign with little precedent in modern medicine and making Britons the first people in the world to receive a clinically authorized, fully tested vaccine. At 6:31 a.m. Tuesday, Margaret Keenan, 90, a former jewelry shop assistant, rolled up the sleeve of her “Merry Christmas” T-shirt to receive the first shot, and her image quickly became an emblem of the remarkable race to produce a vaccine and the global effort to end a pandemic that has killed 1.5 million people worldwide.“I feel so privileged to be the first person vaccinated against Covid-19,” said Ms. Keenan, who lives in Coventry, in central England. “It means I can finally look forward to spending time with my family and friends in the new year after being on my own for most of the year.”
But the virus does not wait to continue its attack. December 20:
The pandemic continued its deadly ascent in America this week, shattering once-unthinkable numbers: a single-day caseload of more than 251,000 new coronavirus infections, 1 million new ones in just five days and more than 3,600 deaths in a single day. The national death toll soared past 300,000 this week. |
One thing our wonderful missionaries have not waited to do: donate 10,000 hours to Second Harvest (San Jose food bank) Way to go to help those in need in our area!
We don't have to wait for new 2020 phrases to find their way into the dictionary!
I have waited until the time seemed right to make the decision to sell my house in Palo Alto, my home for 44 years, to move to Utah where four of my five children now live. I can't let my grandchildren grow up without knowing each one better. They don't wait!
The girls sang, accompanied by their brothers, Luke and John, on the piano; Julie and Elise played a violin duet. Phoebe will have to wait 5 1/2 years for her baptism.
‘Go for It’: U.K.’s First Vaccine Patient Encourages Others
Margaret Keenan, the first patient in Britain to receive the coronavirus vaccine, hopes to set an example for people hesitant to get vaccinated.
It was fine, it was fine. I wasn’t nervous at all. It was really good. “And what do you say to those who might be having second thoughts about this?” Well, I would say go for it. Go for it, because it’s free and it’s the best thing that’s ever happened, at the moment. So, do please go for it. That’s all I’ll say, you know. If I can do it, well, so can you1Margaret Keenan, the first patient in Britain to receive the coronavirus vaccine, hopes to set an example for people hesitant to get vaccinated.
