So. My last post was from February 28th. I haven’t had the time nor mental clarity to post anything since because of this pandemic we happen to find ourselves wading through.
While I’m [obviously] not wandering the streets of Spokane while inhaling deeply and hoping to catch COVID-19, I’m also not that concerned about contracting the virus. The data and science tells me that I am not in a population that has much to fear from COVID-19 (in its present form, at least).
What confounds me are the jackhats and assholsters and yeasticles out there who think this is all about them. About whether they get sick or not. About their livelihoods. About whether their governor is taking away their civil liberties by preventing them from gathering in virus-spreading groups. About whether their selfishness can be construed as an issue of “freedom.”
Side note: if you give two shits about civil liberties, have you been sending regular payments to the ACLU? Yes? Oh, good. Keep it up. Because, as it turns out, civil liberties are only as strong as the weakest link in the chain. If some group or subset of our population ain’t got liberties, ain’t nobody got them. So support civil liberties, even when they are the liberties of people who don’t love, live, or look like you.
Sigh.
I guess I would be more optimistic about this whole shitshow if we had some degree of competent leadership at the federal level. I get Trump’s appeal. I do. As a whole, I think most of my extended family is [currently] behind the guy. And yet… the man is so woefully unfit for the role of leader of the most powerful nation in the history of humanity that it is comical. Comical? Well, maybe not comical, depending on your perspective. As one upper middle-class, heterosexual white guy, I’m still doing all right over here and can see the comedy in all of it. Irony, maybe? Is that the word to use here? Tragedy? I guess it depends on your perspective.
Anyyyyyway… I had a few moments this evening to spare and I thought I would post something light-hearted about my garden. But then the gap between February 28th, 2020 and May 18th, 2020 closed in and took over my keyboard. So here it is. Behold, today’s harvest of chard. It was yummy.
Keep spinning, world. We’d all get dizzy and fall down if you stopped.
Side note #2: yes, those are snow peas you see in the background. I’ll be planting the rest of this bed tomorrow with lettuce and spinach.
Side note #2.1: don’t look too closely, otherwise you’d see that two or three of those leaves in the colander are dandelions and not chard. Move along, nothing to see here.
Side note #2.2: It was my dad’s 83rd birthday yesterday. Happy birthday, Dad!
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