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Love the Moyers clip - and whoa about Covid. Glad you got through it. My doctor, Covid careful beyond most, recently got Covid and it hit his eyes too- both retinas detached - awful and unanticipated. He’s back in the saddle too but it wasn’t easy.

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So sorry the nasty buggar tracked you down. Oh damn! recovery is the best revenge! May you prevail deeply rested and refreshed - though that may take a while to kick in!

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So sorry to read this news! I just came back from vacationing in my home state of Vermont with family and have Covid! Similar symptoms! I was deluding myself thinking I had some special gene that was protecting me since I am surrounded by students. I am back to being a humbled human who feels horrible.

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BLASPHEMY on the way to pass through our summer heat.

May your twilight lightning cold stream dream spirits slide you further and further back to good better best health.

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Hope all is going well, now. Sending you love and strength, just in case.

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I hope you feel better, Sherman. I very much enjoy your work. Rest up and we'll see you soon.

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Continued good wishes from Albuquerque where even Walfart is hot...Having weird creative white guy thoughts/needs to carry this card to hand out to Native Americans quietly cruisin’ the aisles; card would read:

“Get home safe and please read Sherman Alexie! “

Keep on restin’.

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Since "getting well" means throwing up to a lot of Natives, I'll just say "Get Better!"

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Oh no! Feel better ❤️‍🩹

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Kia kaha, Sherman! ( Stay strong).

Wishing you a smooth transition to full recovery.

If you feel like some topical reading, I recommend the Covid memoir by Mark Lanegan ' Devil In A Coma'. It's a Hieronymus Bosch painting in literature. Prose and poetry.

Just read your '...True Diary...' Spokane humour is a lot like Māori humour! Perfect book. Incredulous that it's banned

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I was on a few days' vacation, wondered how the "Smoke Signals" event in Bellingham went, and find out now you were down with COVID - I hope you are healing and stay healthy, and that your family members are all well.

Wonderful poem - made me laugh.

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Get well soon, my friend

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Do want you need to get better...rest, fluids, more rest. We'll be here, when you are well!

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Feel better soon Sherman. I had COVID in 2021 and it was horrible and scary. Take your time and rest up.

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Those 6 Covid shot experiments seem to be doing a great job [at making Pfizer hundreds of billions of dollars]

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Thanks for being the number one poet in my life just now. Get all the rest you need. Rest is the gray area of life. But you knew that.

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