Every day brings us more death and more Covid cases.
By now, it is a familiar routine: TV brings updates and talking heads on Zoom.
Morning becomes afternoon becomes night.
Social distancing gives it a name; before this, my life was solitary by choice.
After three 20th Century wives, the last twenty years have been blessedly free from female influence.
Nonetheless, I miss human touch and interaction.
A sense exacerbated by this current circumstance.
Well, at least it offers us something different from the killings, earthquakes, fires, racism,crashes, accidents,Trumpisms,petty bullshit and more.
Change is always mostly for the good or better, except when it is not.
Like now.
Feels like being stuck in a scary blockbuster summer movie that we cannot walk out on.
Never even thought about living this long. Now I am 70 years old.
Add this to my list of life experiences along with The Beatles, JFK, MLK, Bobby Kennedy, Allard Lowenstein, Vietnam, Watergate, Nixon Resigns, Jonestown, Harvey Milk, George Moscone, ThreeMileIsland, Reagan, Springsteen, Marriages in Alexandria Virginia, Las Vegas and Palm Springs and much more...
Life is short, and then you die.
Amen.
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