May 2020
Blog
No head start this month. What a
cruel month it’s been. I’m just happy there’s a future to postpone things to.
Best
Laid: A Haiku
I
have a plan, so
What
could possibly go wrong?
Life
beyond control?
by
Ann Wilmer-Lasky
Nothing has gone as planned. I’m
still working on the “Global Warning” book. The “Climate Crisis” does not seem
to be that important at the moment. Everyone has something else on their minds
these days. Things like making it to the next day – physically, financially or
mentally.
I have lived a long and interesting
life. Nothing in it however has prepared me for this – the “Pandemic of the
Century.” Not sure how things will work out. I only have the feeling, that for
the greatest nation on Earth, we are the least prepared to deal with this, and
we still do not have a handle on it.
So we sit and wait while the powers
that be scramble to get a handle on this with little or no executive level
direction. If we don’t literally succumb to this pandemic, it will be by grace
alone.
I’d settle for one vaccine that
will work to keep us alive and well. Somehow the prospect of 102 of them out
there still being studied does not fill me with confidence. Just sounds like
we’re throwing due caution to the wind and depending on a Hail Mary to save us.
Nearly everything in Roswell, NM is
closed except grocery stores, Walmart and take-out (no dine-in). Oh, the
pharmacies are open. That’s essential. No one is going anywhere. I seldom leave
the house. I’m one of those older people at the highest risk.
My husband dons his mask and gloves
and does the grocery shopping and picks up prescriptions and whatever else we
need. In doing so, he risks his own health. So far we’ve been lucky. There’s
little or no virus activity in Roswell itself, but you never know. They report
by county in New Mexico, without mentioning actual cities involved.
As time goes by, my husband goes
out less and less. I went out with him
once this last week. I donned my mask and gloves and got in the car. We
drove to Walmart. There was very little traffic on the roads, There were
actually very few people in Walmart. Everywhere on the floor were stickers six
feet apart, warning everyone to stay six feet apart. A lot of the shelves were
nearly empty. You need to take what you can get these days, and I guess that
will get worse before it gets better.
It’s just such an eerie feeling. On
the drive back I noticed all the closed and empty stores. Roswell is a tourist
attraction. No tourists now. Not even locals
wandering about. I won’t be going out again anytime soon.
Everything is on hold, including
the publication of my book. If there’s any consolation to any of this, it’s
that the Earth herself is breathing a sigh of relief. The air is clearing. The
land is healing. But at what cost? Lives are being lost. People are facing
financial ruin.
It seems there can be no happy
medium. Either we are ravaged or the Earth is ravaged.
I have no idea what the next month
will bring. We will all just have to wait and see. Hopefully, we’ll get a
handle on this and return to some form of normalcy. But know that life as we
know it has once again changed forever as it did after 9/11.
I will do what I can to keep
writing and publishing. I’ll keep you posted on my progress and my plans, but I
won’t bemoan what hasn’t gotten done. We are for most part doing the best we
can.
Hope we all come through this well
and intact. For those going through tough times and heartache, you have my
prayers and condolences. We will keep on keeping on and do what we can to get
to the other side of this.
Until then, sit back relax and
enjoy a good book. I have several to
offer:
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
thoughts with me there:
As I post this, it has become
apparent that we will still be on lockdown well into May, possibly longer. I will
surely be stark-raving mad by then, and “Global Warning”
may still not be published.
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