Morning brings its own set of challenges, does it not? Now that we are in isolation, I warily open my eyes at dawn and do a quick inventory. If all of the body parts are in place, then I check the headlines to see if I’ve missed anything. Then, and only then, am I able to entertain the question of whether or not I will participate in the day.
Some days, I will confess, the answer is “no”. I roll over and go back to sleep.
But following this approach has made it very difficult to get anything done and so, as of this week, I have decided I will be better off if I do the day in segments of about fifteen minutes. This is inefficient but it seems to be working. I try to stay on task while keeping an eye on a clock.
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I do have plenty of time to read my email. I don’t delete any of it, so I have about three thousand things that need to be deleted. I do remember a time when my emails were often important. Now, I get rid of coupons for savings on flea medicine for the dog and the digital equivalent of that mess of advertising that hits my regular mailbox on Wednesdays. This is not progress - especially the emails offering cheap air tickets and cruises. My email has become just another place filled with things I’m not interested in.
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Based on what I see on Facebook and Instagram and other social media outlets...the world is dividing itself into new interest groups.
You have folks who tirelessly send out affirmations of love and support. Some religious, some spiritual, some calling on the human race to rise to higher levels of humanity.
You have the folks who are determined to stay political. Frothing, sweaty, enraged. Looking for some kind of political action, retribution, punishment..these people are furious in the true sense of the word.
And the practical minded. Crafts to do with your kids...especially using toilet paper rolls. (Ideas offered with no sense of irony at all.) Reorganize your closet. Wash your shoes. Remove stains. Repair something.
Then there are those who challenge us to take this opportunity to transform ourselves into better beings than we usually are. “Don’t go back to what used to be normal. It wasn’t that good and it should have never been accepted as normal.” And so we should take a class, tour a museum online, visit amazing places without leaving our hand sanitizer behind. And eat kale.
And those who want us to see beauty. Flowers. Birds. Fields of tulips. Beautiful horses. Mountains. Lots of pictures of puppies and kitties. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
I personally enjoy any videos where the animals talk. Especially if they move their lips.
This makes me wonder. To what degree do these groups overlap?
I doubt that the political ones are looking at tulips and watching kitties try to get out of boxes.
Those who want us to be doing acts of kindness are probably not cleaning their closets.
We need to do a Venn Diagram that charts the overlap. I would do it, but it would take longer than fifteen minutes and I just saw a squirrel run past my window.
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I think the Universe is sending a strong message to the world to just shut the f--- up.
It’s clear the Universe is very, very tired of humans at this point... especially the humans who are careless about spreading disease. And the ones who are violent. And the ones who commit crimes large and small against others.
We are messy. We are jumpy. We make a lot of noise that disturbs natural systems. We are foolish, greedy, and stupid. We have bad humans everywhere. Global. Hiding under rocks on every continent. And shame on every single one of them.
This virus is like a giant shoe stepping on an anthill. Stomp. There you go. You are wiped out. What a shame the Universe isn’t able to carefully sort out the good from the bad. But that’s not how it works.
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