Everyone knows Mother Teresa, who in 1979 won the Nobel Peace Prize.  She was born in 1910, became Saint Teresa of Calcutta in 1986 and  passed away in 1997.  I featured her five years ago and showed these photos : I talk about her again today because the following photo has gone through a couple of viral cycles purporting to be that of Mother Teresa at the age of 18: I was attracted to that shot because she reminded me of my wife Pearl at the age of 21: This is Mother Teresa at the age of 69 when she won the Nobel Prize: Here, Pearl's final photo when she was 69: In that posting five years ago I said: St. Teresa of Kolkata was born in Albania, now the Republic of Macedonia, left for Ireland at the age of 18, and then to India a year later.  She took her first religious vows in 1931 at the age of 20 while teaching at St. Teresa's School in Darjeeling.  She chose to be named after Therese de Lisieux, the patron saint of Missionaries .   While the above is true, here is where peo

We grew up believing in those statements.  To some degree, my life has unfolded with some personal effort, while overcoming disasters.  Recent events, though, have convinced me that I'm reaching a point of peak luck by pure chance.  If I don't brag about this today, as all things have a way of balancing out, I might never again be able to say that I'm the luckiest person I know. To begin, being born in Honolulu, Hawaii, the best place on Earth, in a period where the previous generation ( World War II heroes ) made it easer for me, provided the foundation for an incredible life.  Those events had nothing to do with hard work on my part. I had an uneventful youth, growing up in what was then considered to be a relatively dangerous and low class environment, Kakaako.  In reality, this was a safe neighborhood, until now, when the homeless crowd has definitely made an impact.  But today, I live in a Nuuanu cocoon, where we escaped COVID-19 ( we all had our second Moderna shot a

     From  Worldometer  (new  COVID-19 deaths yesterday):          DAY    USA    WORLD     Brazil      India      South Africa June     9    1093     4732       1185        246       82 July    22     1205     7128        1293      1120      572 Aug    12     1504     6556        1242       835      130 Sept     9     1208      6222       1136      1168       82 Oct     21     1225      6849         571       703       85 Nov    25     2304    12025        620       518      118 Dec     30     3880    14748       1224       299     465 Jan      14       4142    15512        1151        189      712                  Feb      3       4005   14265       1209       107     398           17         2537   11383        1195         89      165            23        2404   10293       1370       100     263           24        2525   10814        1433       144      110           25        2414    10578        1582       119      144 Summary:  What is looming is a fourth wave , this one caused

   From  Worldometer  (new  COVID-19 deaths yesterday):          DAY    USA    WORLD     Brazil      India      South Africa June     9    1093     4732       1185        246       82 July    22     1205     7128        1293      1120      572 Aug    12     1504     6556        1242       835      130 Sept     9     1208      6222       1136      1168       82 Oct     21     1225      6849         571       703       85 Nov    25     2304    12025        620       518      118 Dec     30     3880    14748       1224       299     465 Jan      14       4142    15512        1151        189      712                  Feb      3       4005   14265       1209       107     398           17         2537   11383        1195         89      165            23        2404   10293       1370       100     263                   24        2525   10814        1433       144      110 Summary:  Somewhat stabilized, but better than early in the month.  The USA still had 75,299 new COVID-19 cases yesterd