Wednesday, August 5, 2020

What is GISH


GISH is celebrating weirdness. GISH is celebrating you. GISH is everything you hoped for and always something new.
GISH is beauty in uniqueness. GISH will evermore be true. GISH is spices, trash and glitter, and way too much hot glue.

GISH is Art and Math and Science. Dance and Poetry and Food. All these things rolled up together in one fantabulistic ooze
You can make things out of feathers, you can puzzle, you can ZOOM. Your best is ALWAYS good enough no matter what you choose.

GISH promotes sustainability. It's zero waste my friend. Reduce, Reuse. Recycle so our planet doesn't end
We eat without utensils. That's what GISH recommends. It's all there in the commandments, upon which the game depends.

Can you paint upon your body. Can you carve a piece of soap. Do you build things out of Legos. Do you build things out of Rope.
It's Picasso from potatos; making a Rube-Goldberg slope. But no matter what it is you do...Gish is always HOPE

GISH provokes creative spirit. GISH inspires everyone. GISH demands social justice and doesn't quit until it's done.
GISH is unexpected kindness. GISH is accidental love. GISH is unreasonable pain and suffering in the pursuit of fun.

GISH is known the whole world over. GISH is a world we all create. When you join the GISH community there is no room for hate.
GISH is Jello (so much jello) used in ways you don't expect. GISH is saying “DAMMIT MISHA” as you stay up way too late.

So even though the pun-GISH-ment won't always fit the crime. This phrase we all will mutter “it seemed like a good idea at the time”



Wednesday, April 15, 2020

The Road So Far...

     I'm about a month behind where I wanted to be when this whole bizarre dystopian insanity began.   Since the best thing to do for the future is to journal when this sort of craziness happens, let me backtrack and see if I can catch up to the present. 

The first confirmed death in China 1/11/2020

First confirmed case in the US 1/21/2020

1/30/2020 WHO declared a Global Health Emergency

1/31/2020 US restricts travel into the US from China for Foreign Nationals (excludes permanent residents or family members of citizens.

2/5/2020 Princess Cruise ship on lockdown after confirmed cases

2/7/2020 Chinese doctor who tried to raise the alarm dies

2/11/2020 Virus officially named Covid 19 (a mix of Coronavirus and year started)

2/14/2020 First European death in France

2/19/2020 People leave the Princess Cruise ship after lockdown lifted

2/23/2020 Italy sees a surge in cases and locks down certain cities

2/24/2020 45 asks congress for funds for Coronavirus response team

2/29/2020 First death in the US.   Travel restrictions implemented

3/3/2020 CDC lifts federal restrictions on Covid testing

3/11/2020 WHO declares Covid 19 a pandemic