wake up

“The news of a deeply serious human case of bird flu is a massive wake-up call that should immediately mobilize efforts to prevent another human pandemic,” said Farm Forward Executive Director Andrew deCoriolis.

The George Floyd protests put police reform on the agenda and served as a wake-up call about the raw, contemporary dangers of structural racism, but except for its transformation into a scary right-wing bedtime story about looters and out-of-control cities, it seems to have sunk back below the surface, leaving only a few cultural ripples behind.

Her wake-up time is 6:30 a.m. but she loves taking batting practice any time with her father, Ralph, who started coaching her when she was 5 and then allowed travel ball coaches to take over.

But the realities of modern life — classes, work, children, pets, etc. — often necessitate the use of some sort of wake-up alert.

“The area that I generally tell people to establish structure is by wake-up time,” Aysola says.