(un)Comfortably Numb

Courtesy Tom Janssen
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Sunday. Formidable Mother Nature has given me permission to rest.
I’m pulling a mask (homemade) over my brain for one day… after a brief scan of more awful news from around our suffering planet:

• Hunger Protests and looting have broken out around South Africa.
• U.S. Food Supply Chain Is Strained as Virus Spreads 
• Coronavirus broke the global food supply chain. It may never recover

Together, at Home

Then there's Together, at Home, the effort by Global Citizen to recognize healthcare workers, support stay-at-home and lockdown orders/requests, and to come together as one people across the globe. 

Latest research on virus

• Antibody study suggests coronavirus is far more widespread than previously thought
• Coronavirus: five months on, what scientists now know about Covid-19
• The coronavirus outbreak is part of the climate change crisis
  

Numbers tell a story:
Global confirmed infections: 2,329,655
Global confirmed dead: 160,721
US confirmed infections: 735,086
Next closest number of confirmed infections: Spain with 194,416

Meanwhile, back at the ranch…

I donned waders and climbed into the pond to clear out the ubiquitous spear-like leaves of the yucca aloifolia.
Turns out this plant is indigenous, not to South Africa, but to the US Atlantic and Gulf Coasts.

While in the pond, I thinned pond weed, plucked another batch of the pest invasive lilies, and checked for goldfish. Nine days... and I’ve  spotted not one.
Hope springs eternal.
Mother Nature smiled.



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