Jane Goodall

April 2, 2020 10:06am

Life holds us captive and tortures us daily.

We walked two miles this morning. It was 46 degrees with a vivid blue sky and a few wispy clouds staring down in the still air. The world IS beautiful but terrifying. Look too closely and think too much and you will see.

I believe that beauty may be closely linked with hope….maybe you can’t have one without the other. People believe all sorts of things about Covid 19 but it is just a virus doing what viruses do – not the wrath of God, a sign of the end, or punishment for sin. Just a virus doing what viruses have done since the creation.

Will this have any lasting effect on the global psyche or will everything return to “normal”? Who can say?

Yesterday, I chose to stay in the truck while my old business partner picked up some things at Lowes; I still help occasionally with pulling cable or putting up security cameras. Anyway, I figured why expose myself when I could enjoy the time to think. I watched dozens of people (mostly men) go in and out of the store and I was struck by our resemblance to apes. I felt like Jane Goodall watching chimpanzees. This one identified by a barrel chest and a limp, this one gray and skinny, another fat and bald, and all of them working to maintain life for as long as they can and probably not thinking too much about the futility of their efforts.