PANDEMIC PONDERING - Excerpts from the 2020 Journal
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I came to reading late in life, and it is now an almost constant companion. I do not read fast, but re-read often when addicted to a writer. I listened today to Chapter 3 of "The Living Mountain" and then returned to my most recent favorite writer Brian Doyle. After some time engaged with these texts, I sat quietly and a sort of intuitive river rose in me that sprang from a question and flowed into the larger world around me: What should we learn from this pandemic, this isolation? Perhaps it is not new, but I concluded that the world, that nature was in control. We can see the dolphins in Venice again and the pollution clouds over our cities have abated. Man resisted Science and now Science is informing us, by way of quarantine, that what we do to her matters.