Spring and the Leap Year Moon<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Saturday gratefuls: Bright sun. White snow. Sturdy mountains. Gov. Polis. All workers in essential jobs, risking themselves for the rest of us. Tough decisions, made well. Governors and mayors. Drugs. Rigel, who practiced non-violent resistance last night when I moved her off my pillow. (100 lbs. of limp dog.) Seoah with her spray can of Lysol. Seoah for cleaning and soup and pancakes (veggie, Korean type). Kate for good attitude in spite of, well, all of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lyrics from a Warren Zevon<\/a> song:<\/p>\n\n\n\n I want to live alone in the desert Splendid Isolation Michael Jackson in Disneyland Goofy and I have set out on this quarantine journey. It’s the Mickey Mouse club hike for us older Mouseketeers, now latch key elders stuck at home while the young ones go to work. What kind of mischief can we get up to? Been rummaging around for that chemistry set with the REAL piece of uranium. We can wave at the other seniors through the window. Hey, there, hi, there, ho, there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We can also follow Goofy down the yellow-brick road to that ego wizard living behind the green curtains of our fear. Let him\/her out. We’re all afraid now. Maybe not quaking or shaking, but definitely concerned. No reason to hide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here’s an elder countryman, speaking of a different time, but also of ours:<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Spring and the Leap Year Moon Saturday gratefuls: Bright sun. White snow. Sturdy mountains. Gov. Polis. All workers in essential jobs, risking themselves for the rest of us. Tough decisions, made well. Governors and mayors. Drugs. Rigel, who practiced non-violent resistance last night when I moved her off my pillow. (100 lbs. of limp dog.) … Continue reading As Happy As Can Be<\/span>
\nI want to be like Georgia O’Keefe
\nI want to live on the Upper East Side
\nAnd never go down in the street<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I don’t need no one
Splendid Isolation<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Don’t have to share it with nobody else
Lock the gates, Goofy, take my hand
And lead me through the World of Self <\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cTHESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated\u201d<\/em> Thomas Paine<\/h5>\n\n\n\n