It’s a bittersweet feeling, knowing my son will be returning to TN in a week, but I still won’t be able to see him (or by extension, my grandkids if/when they come to town) for the indefinite future.  It’s necessary to keep all of us safe and healthy, but the timing sucks.  I suppose there’s never a good time for a pandemic!  History assures me there’s an afterward, but at this rate will I live to see it?  The probability is not encouraging.

It’s weird and surreal, knowing much of the country is in denial, heedless of the danger of socializing/recreation as usual.  Or they’re forced by circumstances to go back to work in unprotected conditions.  Meanwhile, tensions are high and being elevated by violent racism, fanned by trump’s shameless, selfish vitriol.  Just when you think it can’t get more insane, it does.  I have to limit my news intake just to keep the anxiety level manageable.

That’s why I just post whimsical animals and flowers, for the most part.   Mundane life must go on, and you can’t just shut down.  Plus it’s therapeutic to watch the natural world forging on around us or without us.  Even a deadly plague must peter out some time.  Likewise an oppressive despot, one hopes.  Sooner, if we act responsibly.

With that, I now return you to cute animals and flowers.  Aren’t these adorable?