Nice weather when we may need it most but

just to start out with some enlightening news from the USA! USA!’s aka Unapologetically Selfish Asshole’s response to a worldwide problem; corner the cure and monetize it!  Of course in his defense [which I will not take] he’s doing the only thing he can think of and I’m sure his many like-minded supporters and enablers enthusiastically agree.  That was, however, old news and, besides, beside the point.  For newer better [in every Sense of Useful] try this, again

courtesy of my ever-vigilant brother-in-law.  Me, I just walk or bike around in weather fair

or February-ish,

which let up long enough to transport work to the Library where all Sunday was spent installing

with Kathryn and Gregg Renfrow and came off, with the exception of a little subtraction and rearrangement of the forty foot wall, pretty much as planned.  As a result we were essentially finished by afternoon’s end save for custodial and curatorial details so parted, agreeing to make the best of the circumstances [reception having already been canceled] by luring writers

[and my brother Kirk for documentation] out to memorialize our efforts.

I went wearily home and sometime later joined up virtually with those people

we’d thought would be coming down to see us this week for a week…but didn’t.  For good

reason, as is increasingly increasingly obvious, necessitating VERY distant social distancing

[I was particularly taken with Izel’s “girls” glyph below…]

indeed…about which people are not exactly sanguine on either side of the border.

But at least we have the internet

…for the moment.

On a brighter note [albeit not for Tufted Apes] clever Mother Nature’s fighting back in the twenty-first century*…or seems to be with a scenario tentatively titled “Will the Virus Save the Planet [in time]?” MN’s chosen a fairly canny way to do it – like the woodrats who’d disable my Plymouth by gnawing through the coil wire so they could nest under the hood undisturbed it seems Nature, rather than coming up with a way to eradicate billions of us, is just wiping out a few millions, effectively stalling the economy that makes our destructive unsustainability possible; will we prove too resilient to allow that to succeed and go on destroying this living world or…learn something?  All the same kids, how’s THAT for Disruption?

 

*NOT Neil Young, but thanks for the lyric; click the link