A breeze blows through the area where I live. It mixes with wood smoke. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I just woke up from a nap in a chair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An American flag ripples in the\ndistance. It should be turned upside down. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I hear birds and power tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I wrapped up the tree planting gig:\naround 1200 total in some of the most physically demanding work of my\nlife. I wish it could go on. The landowner tipped me a hundred\nsmackers for my effort. I’d never received a tip for labor in my life\nand I taught my ass off for 25 years in schools. It felt wonderful.\nShouldn’t good teachers be tipped? \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Strange people pass by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A large man is dying not far from me. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I sense many people are ready to create\nmonumental change in their lives. The quarantine exposed something.\nBut will they act?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many Americans have learned the hard\nway that the lives they had at home were utterly meaninglessness, and\nin fact, awful. They could stand it because they could leave. They\ncould survive it because they had distractions. The facade has now\nbeen pulverized. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One can only hope after this that\nunnecessary air travel will finally end (like flying to Africa and\nAntarctica to run marathons). And it appears the virus may have\nkilled the cruise ship industry for all time. Thank the Oceans! \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An elderly woman pulls up in a 90s\nLincoln Continental to meet<\/em> a neighbor. She is wearing a side\narm and carrying a box of wine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I see a lonely tether ball pole with molding rope and a molding ball. I want to pound the ball like the old school yard days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Lots of conspiracy theories floating around. They attach to the weak of mind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I saw a video of a Southern woman\ndefying at stay at home order yelling at a health care worker wearing\na mask who stood in front of her. She told the worker to go back\nto China, you commie. <\/em>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n How did Americans get this dumb?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Of course Ronald Reagan was elected\ntwice in landslides, so really, is nothing new in modern America?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Never forget this: the doctor who\ninvented the lobotomy was given the Nobel Prize for Medicine and\nHenry Kissinger was given the Nobel Prize for Peace. Hillary Clinton\ngot three million more votes than Donald Trump. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n An oil executive said on TV that \u201cwe\nhave to get back to way things were.\u201d No we don’t. That way was \nexploitation, destruction and drivel. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n I keep building driftwood forts to\npreserve my sanity. It’s working. \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A breeze blows through the area where I live. It mixes with wood smoke. I just woke up from a nap in a chair. An American flag ripples in the distance. It should be turned upside down. I hear birds and power tools. I wrapped up the tree planting gig: around 1200 total in some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1090,5],"tags":[1092,1091],"class_list":["post-5996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corona-virus-thoughts","category-meditations","tag-covid-19","tag-quarantine-oregon-writing","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5996"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6003,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions\/6003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}