April 2020
Blog
Got a head start on this month’s
edition. Who knows what will befall us in even the next few days?
Wipeout:
A Haiku
Life
but laughs at lines
Drawn
in sand; obliterates
Them
at will or whim.
by
Ann Wilmer-Lasky
Wow! All of a sudden last month’s
goals don’t seem to matter much anymore. The world has been set on its ear and
the “Climate Crisis” set on the back burner for who knows how long. So my
“Diary of a #Madwoman on #Deadline has bit the dust, so to speak. At least its
launch will not be the “earth-shaking event” I planned it to be.
Don’t get me wrong, it will still
be published, if not on time, then close to it. But it will not be heralded as
the “balm that salved the Universe.”.
For, at the moment, we have a more
immediate problem – how to survive the “plague of the century” both physically
and economically. And that with or without appropriate leadership.
COVID19 (to be politically correct)
has taken over our lives, literally. We think of nothing else. And now, when we
need each other’s support like no other time, we are told to stay away from one
another. Not to hold, not to touch, not to be even within six feet of one
another. The average person can do little more than obey the directives and hope
the powers-that-be can get this pandemic under control.
So far, that hope is tentative at
best. Few world leaders have shown marked ability to get a decent handle on the
situation. And the problem and its dire consequences continue to escalate.
Day-after-day, the numbers go up
and up. We hold our collective breath that it doesn’t come too close, but it
does. First cases in the state, first cases in the county, and still waiting
for the first case in the city, although the first man in our state has died
from it, and could have caught it in our city.
We sit and watch the news and wait,
like waiting for “the other shoe to fall”, certain that it will, but not
knowing when. We try to fill our hours with meaningful things to do, but they
don’t get done. It seems when you have all the time in the world to do
something, there are no priorities and (procrastinator that I am) I can put
anything off.
Okay, taking a deep breath now. All
are well here, and I am thankful for that. All our puppies are happy to have us
home. The think we are there for them. That’s okay, it keeps them happy.
All projects are still moving
along, if not more slowly than I had planned. I finally gathered all my
Universe, Earth, world, nature and weather Haiku from the last six years
together. That number was close to 500. Peeling some off for another book on
the personal side of writing, I still have about 350. Now comes the fun of
putting them together in a cohesive way to present them to a totally
pre-occupied world.
At least it gives me something to
occupy my thoughts with other than gloom and doom. Oh, wait, that’s what I
usually write about, isn’t it?
As I sit here and write this, I’m
also thinking of thing to put on my list of places to go when this pandemic is
over. One of the first places will be my favorite restaurant (assuming they
survive and are able to reopen). Then maybe a few day trips. We live in Roswell
and have never made it to the debris field for the 1947 UFO crash here, nor
have we made it to Carlsbad to see the caverns. Both are now on the list. Heck,
I’d be happy to take a ride without wondering if the guy in the next car is
wondering if I’m essential like I’d be wondering if he is.
For the moment, I am sitting in my
backyard, enjoying the coolness of spring and watching the clouds wander from
west to east as is their wont. I may or may not come back to you in May with
the announcement that “Global Warning” has been published, but I am working on
it.
I am also working on staying well.
I hope you are all well and survive this current madness we have been thrown
into. And I hope to see us all back next
month with smiles on our faces.
Until then, sit back relax and
enjoy a good book. I have several to
offer here on my Amazon Author Page: https://twitter.com/awlasky/status/1081402168207278080
As always, I welcome your reactions
and responses to any of my blogs. I love to hear from my readers. Also, here
are links to my Twitter and Facebook accounts, if you care to share your
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As I post this, it has become
apparent that we will be on lockdown at least until the end of April. I should
be a stark-raving loony by then, or I will have published “Global
Warning”.
