Day One Hundred and Eleven

Feest Isolation Days –3 July

After my walk in the woods earlier in the week, I  keep thinking about how much better I feel after being among the tall and luscious trees. New Zealand kauri trees have always brought a very special mood to the forests. I can feel a kauri tree before I see it.  The quiet ancient presence is pervasive.  The British trees exert a wonderful feeling too, but like different genres of music, some is excellent cool jazz and other trees are more like wonderful violin concertos.  But all trees seem to have a voice. According to the ecologist Suzanne Simard, not only do trees speak but they do so over long distances. Her work of over thirty years is like a song itself.  An uplifting few moments to be found on her much viewed Ted talk.

Sometimes people talk too much and say stupid things.  You wish you could just silence them.  One of those people who says stupid things most of the time is the current President. After weeks of saying wearing facemasks during the pandemic wasn’t something he endorsed, he finally did a big U turn.  Now he says, face masks are okay. But he reiterated that he did not think making face-coverings mandatory across the US was needed, because there are “many places in the country where people stay very long distance If people feel good about it they should do it.”

He says when he wears a mask it makes him look like the Lone Ranger.  He didn’t seem to notice that the Lone Ranger didn’t cover his mouth and nose but his eyes.  You can just see Trump’s followers wearing black eye patches instead of the appropriate gear, if they bother at all.

The virus, if it could speak just cheered! Not so the 50,000 plus people in the States who were tested positive with the disease yesterday.

Then there is true leadership.  Governor Cuomo of New York, noticing that too many people were not wearing their face coverings properly showed people how it’s done. “Don’t wear a chin guard wear a face mask,” He says. It’s the law.  He demonstrates the proper use of a facemask including making a self deprecating remark about his own nose and it sure made me smile.  What a guy!

 You are all very special.  Look after yourself!

With love,

Kathy x