Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Pandemic pandemonium and Wabi Sabi

HEY WASCULLY  WABBITS  IT’S WABI SABI  WEEK

SO...  this is  whole week of celebrating  the transient  and imperfections in  humans being and more than that, the acceptance of those  concepts.  

Wabi Sabi is. A Japanese concept that can be  learned about in Wikipedia of course or in a.book titled “The Atlas Of Happiness” by (? Helen Russell).  This book  summarizes  “happiness concepts” from around the globe and you may be <sarcasm> shoc led to  find out that the entire world is not focused.on financial maximizing as the key to ultimate satisfaction and  glee.  

Since Wabi Sabi changes the expectations a bit, I thought I’d.reframe  our pandemic reality  a bit in a few brief scenarios  in the next three entries. 

“Drawing on  your Inner Happiness?”

In this Pandemic Era (PE)  we get a White House briefing  about every day and we hear  from some Governors and a whole bunch of doctors.  Quite  frankly as the days go on and the messages are repeaterdly incoherent they almost become funny (if they weren’t. So sad.  It has come to the point where I want the information, however, I can’t really stomach the sounds of the voices I hear.  Therefore, I am starting to pretend I’m hearing the  news. Delivered in the. Voices of some of my favorite cartoon characters.   So with no further ado...welcome  to today’s news briefing and commentary.

we now go live to the  White House  Press room We are expecting to. Hear from President Tony the Tiger, Vice President Scoo  B. Doo Governor  Elmer Fudd and  from the “Economic  Stimulus Task Force” we will have Popeye  and Wiley  Coyote.  

Ladies and  gentlemen  the President of the United States

“Good afternoon—-no wait not good afternoon it’s Great!  I have heard from Governors from  many states and  they have not sugar coated things for me their  states are  doing Great!  They’ve started to  get ventilators and they are working Great!  I talked with d some of the. Big  restaurant  chains and they  are ready to go when we van open up  and they assure me that their food will taste Great in fact better than ever before.  So to sum it up you’ll get a check with my name on it and then you’ll be doing  Great.  

President Tiger starts to look around the room and says ..”Now we’ll hear from. Vice President. Doo.  He and  his gang have been driving aroun in a specially  designed mobile unit spot checking mysterious  Bed and Breakfast haunts and malt shops.  He’s going to  fill you in on all the Great work they’ve done.   Scooby, Scooby Doo  where are you?”   A reprter. Stand up... “mr. Vice President can you briefly sum up the situation out there in the  country especially the state of testing and systematic tracking?”  “Rut Row—-Yikes”.
Thanks Mr. Doo.  Let’s go to the studio for comment.

Well Chet what’s your view on the  briefing so far?  

Well Eric—seems to be another day of the same stuff ax  yesterday except for  no reports of magical  cures.  So Chet why nocclaims today?  Well Eric —some fifth grade students who are being homeschooled  shot down the last  three vaccine offerings in about an hour.  You see.Mr. Big Pharma  would have gotten away with it if it hadn’t been for those.meddling  kids.”

Next we’ll have the reaction from  Governor. Fudd.  Governor, what’s your view on  the status of things?” 
“Well it’s Wooten. Wheelie  wheelie Wooten.  We’re. Working  a Wound the clock  but we can’t wee-lie on words from the feds.  It’s. Like we  can’t. “TWUST  the Washington. Wascculls  just like we are Wussians .” 


We are going to wrap up the cbriefling with some folks from the  economic  task force.   Here’s  CCaptain Popeye  who we’ve brought in to fight  the war on poverty.  

“Yuck Yuck Yuck...”. We’re startin’ to open up the  economy taking. Some precautions... Our initial. 200 Billion in loans will be  used to get the  Olive Oil and Pop-top Spinach  factories rolling and then everything should  be smooth sailing from there.   Mr. Coyote couldn’t be with us today but tomorrow he will be unveiling a new small business  portal he  has ordered up from the Acme Economy  Explosion  Group.  According to initial reports this  plan should get us over the initial cliff presented by  unemployment and consumer  fears.  



—-Well there you have it—another day in the pandemic. 


Please  take care of each other and yourselves and know that this is a Wabi Sabi world.  More  in Wabi Sabi Week tomorrow.  

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