If Newton’s Law Applies...
Well I’m not worried about all his laws—after all there were a lot of universal truths he didn’t point out. for example, you will always spill dark food on light clothing and light food on dark clothing. It will always rain within 23 hours of when you wash your car. You will break a shoe string only on days when you are already running late—he didn’t mention any of these things. He did however believe in alchemy thinking he could change other materials into gold and while he learned a lot from an apple it wasn’t a cell phone iPad or Mac Air Pro.
The law I’m interested in is the one about. Every action having an equal and opposite reaction.
So on a daily basis these days (actually on every day ever but we will get there later...a new change, a significant change seems to fall into. Our lives. Our favorite restaurant is closed in fact all of our favorite restaurants have changed the way they are. Operating if they are operating at all. We can’t. Go to a lot of our favorite places where we see so many familiar faces. In short our routines are all being revealed because they are being denied. So as some parts of our lives are getting dismantled and maybe destroyed my equal and opposite. Reaction is to create and explore new routines and to really examine my patterns of action and thought to see what parts of life I’ve been phoning in for a while.
One of the habits I’ve been trying to. Build is sharing some verses/poetry that may eventually make it’s way into a song. So on this fine day I offer the first two stanza of a poem or verses of a song that will work on me for the next couple weeks and invite. You to let curious thoughts fill in the spaces where fear of losing your “taken for grantees” fall down.
Well. The world spins in a wobbly spiral
COVID 19 has gone viral
So we can’t. Haunt the same old places
See all those familiar faces
As each routine fades or fails
We must build in new details
Some amongst us will be frozen As they face the paths they’ve chosen
Well that’s enough for today... Now a few notes from my Pandemic Era Journal Day 3
I was informed today that our city was implementing. A “burning ban”. I’m not sure why this is. Happening. Maybe. It’s because the fire department doesn’t want to be exposed to more of the public than is absolutely needed—I get that. Unfortunately with a lot more people preparing their own food for the first time in a long time there will more burning than we’ve. Seen in quite some time. I wish we could enforce this no burning thing in the kitchen . How would that work? Would you dial 911 and scream out “You’d better get out here—Aunt Mildred is baking the crap out of. This meatloaf? Then the officer would come out and ask about the nature of the crime. She’s a re[peat offender you’d say—she hasn’t made a decent cake in 20 years and her burgers? Let’s just say the NHL calls when they run low on pucks.
Anyway... what I’m getting at is that we will have a lot of new rules designed to keep us healthy and calm. Some of them will not work and some of us will try to become Barney Fife and enforce them with enthusiasm. In a world of peace and joy it might be productive to approach things with a good deal of curiosity, respect, and flexibility and to understand that we are walking into anew forest here. Let’s not worry about. Proving who is right or wrong so much as proving. That together we can build beautiful. New patterns in many parts of many lives and if you don’t like the way Aunt Mildred makes the meatloaf... volunteer to make some stir fry instead.
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