Tomorrow

  Good morning. I just turned on the TV, planning to watch something, anything to kill some time. Writing something has been on my mind for quite awhile, but for some reason, I haven't? I suspect that it has something to do with the strangeness of the time, a time like none before it in history. Now Solomon tells us that there is nothing new under the sun, and I have never known king Solomon to be wrong. And in fact he isn't. This time is different from other such plagues as the black death or the Bubonic plague of the middle ages. The difference is the 24/7 instantaneous news. With the speed of the internet, everything about anybody is easily known. So the virus/ germ/ flu/, whatever you choose to call it, this world wide disease is not nearly as big as the media would make it. One death is too many, but we are a long way off from the millions of deaths past diseases caused. The biggest reason? Modern science and medicine have evolved to staggering new heights, especially with the advent of computers. 

  Now, speaking of something a little more in my line of understanding, let's get something straight. The answer to the question asked millions of times before this, "Why did God do this". He didn't. However, He did know it was coming and allowed it to happen. From His perspective, little if anything is learned from the good times, those times of light summer breezes. But when bad times come, that is when your true self comes out, whether personally, regarding those personal hardships, or corporately as a civilization. 

  Funny how things can turn on a dime, but as I started to say, I had no intention of writing anything, but when the Simpsons came on, they opened with the song "strange days" playing in the background. A song that I am trying to get out of my head with only limited success. But I digress. As strange as these times of separation are, and events that we took for granted are gone for now. Each of us, no matter our age has to deal with isolation to some degree. Welcome to my world. I'm retired and live on a fixed income, and so staying home with little to any social life is normal for me and millions like me. This is a war like none other. In this one, you are not required to fight anyone with a gun. In this one, the one against this invisible enemy, all you have to do is stay in the safety of your homes. Thus far so good, and our country has handled it well, and we are winning! We are winning because we have remained united and resolute in defeating this enemy. Keep up the good work America and keep up the good work and patriotism necessary to win any war. But now as we ready ourselves to fight on the second front, that of bringing our powerful economic engine back to life in stages, do your part and continue to stick together. Our country was built on a new concept, that of the real power belonging to the people, and together we can defeat any foe. the only way those touting evil ways can win is if we defeat ourselves. United we stand, divided we fall.