April 10

April 10, 2020

Feeling invigorated I grab my coffee and open up my laptop.  I sit down to write and the words pour out of me.  I have found my muse and it is due in part to tragedy. Like many times in history, we get creative in the face of adversity.  I have found many people lately are turning to music and art as a release, an escape.  Almost compelled I begin to write down my story.  Shaking my head I laugh to myself and wonder who really wants to know my life story?  It is amazing how connected I feel letting the words of my life rush out of me.

Today is another day of big intentions… unfulfilled.  I want to go fishing, I want to go for a motorcycle ride, a bicycle ride.  We never leave the street we live on.  It feels safe and secure staying at home – somehow the world outside seems a little more foreboding than before.  Pushing myself to get something done I tackle the monstrously overgrown cedar hedge.

My neighbour is pumped as she sees me with a ladder and some trimmers.  Excited I am going to cut the cedar hedge and improve the view.  I connect over the fence – we toast to a job well done, a beer and a smile.

We go for our walk again, I look to my wife and relay the story of the homeless guy with no teeth.  No teeth and an apple.  I am sorry for that homeless guy, especially now.  He came up to me as I was getting on my motorcycle and begged for something, not money he said.  He tells me someone smashed his teeth out with a hammer, a hammer!  He wants to eat. I can’t feed him. The city is empty.  No one is there to feed him and he is hungry.  Who will feed the homeless of the world?  How many more will there be when this is done?  Did the people who shut down the world think about the people on the fringes of society?  Coming back to our view around us, I am heartened that it is not us.

The view, I will never tire of the view.  Breathing in our wondrous surroundings we head back home.  Jon Bos is on YouTube and we relax and enjoy an amazing video created by our friend; we are reminded of the gifts that this break has given us.  I plan to write more, I plan to create and look forward to the days to come.