At yesterday’s special meeting of the Session (board) at church we decided on a few adjustments for the service and other church activities for the next few weeks due to the Coronavirus. The congregation this morning was small, extra small as expected. Hopefully it won’t be too long before things can get back to normal. I was thinking all of this was to-much-to-do-about-nothing but as it has grown my trepidation has grown also. We should just pray and wait it out, taking the common sense precautions. The feeling I get is a little like the Twilight Zone.
The photo theme for March 14 was “this is fun!”. It passed through my thinking cap that outside and social events can affect the way people, me included, feel in their surroundings and events going on around them. That being said, I had difficulty finding something to present as “this is fun”. There was some snow lightly falling outside the window. It gave me a soft feeling of nature still going on. That is “fun”with all else that is happening.While I was at church, Bob said I had a call. My neighbor was going to the grocery store and called to see if we needed anything. I to called them to thank them for thinking of us.
I was up a little early after some kind of off the wall dreams due, I suppose, to this hysteria that is going on right now. I got all my daily starts out of the way before getting ready for church.
I talked to Lowell on my way home from church. He and Rebecca may have been exposed to the virus through some daily activity so are on a self imposed isolation until they hear the results of the testing of the other party.
As usual I have not set up a must-do agenda today so I am “following my nose” for computer activity this afternoon. I do have two photo shoots to do today.
Today’s challenge is “cool”. I glanced around as I was absorbing this choice for an image that fits. My eye settled on my Winterberry plant that was half in the sun and have descending into shadow. that's cool.The word today is enjoy. One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one, Henry David Thoreau. Life is like our game at whist ... I don't enjoy the game much, but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it, George Eliot. Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. If wisdom be attainable, let us not only win but enjoy it, Marcus Tullius Cicero. A book should teach us to enjoy life, or to endure it, Samuel Johnson. A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired, Juvenal. He scatters enjoyment who can enjoy much, Johann Kaspar Lavater. Good men make life a twofold span to last: Twice does he live who can enjoy his past, Marcus Aurelius. Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too, Voltaire. May our children and our children's children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have cause yet to rejoice under those glorious institutions bequeathed us by Washington and his compeers, Abraham Lincoln. Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have, Seneca the Younger. Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain, Horace. O how sweet it is to enjoy life, Living in honesty and strength! And wisdom is sweet, And freedom, Gautama Buddha. For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond Higher design than to enjoy his state, John Milton. I work even in the middle of the day, in the full sunshine, and I enjoy it like a cicada, Vincent Van Gogh. And hearts resolved and hands prepared The blessings they enjoy to guard, Tobias Smollett.
This is one of those days that I had a second photo-a-day shot.This title was “vanishing point”. Again I was on a search for a thing that fit. I caught a shot of the stairs and then a quick shot of the street in front of my house as it headed for the park at the end of the block. The attention that these photos require has taken on another facet. It is helping to calm some of the stress of this moment in history. There are many other times that this hobby lends a calming affect but a bit more of its strength is needed now.
Well, I have to mention the virus again. It would be hard not to at this point. So here is an article that tells something about what is happening. This article I saw today was about outdoors activity during this crisis. One of our citizens was playing with his dog in one of the local dog parks. His dog and others were happy to be outdoors and playing, oblivious of what humans were experiencing. They didn’t seem to notice the antibacterial wipes in the human pockets. The pets didn’t realize that their owners were making silent decisions about travel for a job. They didn’t know what was going on when the 20-second hand washing was going on. Downtown buildings were vacant and locked, parking meters are empty. The number of people on the streets are few and far between. Teachers and restaurant workers along with small business owners and many others are going without pay. It could be they will miss pay days for a long while. This doesn’t even mention what it happening on the Stock Market. One of the bars mentioned in the article said they weren’t having their normal customers preparing for the St. Patrick’s Day celebrations. One lady said she figures after everyone gets use to the social distancing and hand washing things will adjust....almost.
I think it is going to be another “take out/order in” dinner tonight, tacos or subs.
Joy
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