Notes from the Spring Creek Arts Guild

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Not Bright Yet

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Here we are four weeks after my first column about living with a pandemic. Daily life here in Spring Creek is still fairly close to normal for us. We still stay home most of the time, I still cook most of our meals at home, and we still commute all the way to the office at the other end of the house to go to work. I have added face mask construction to my repertoire, and my husband has been using an increase in quiet time to get lots of cleaning and organizing done around the ranch.

We are still on the same package of toilet paper that I bought back before the pandemic was declared. The back-up package I bought four weeks ago is still untouched. I saw a highly scientific article saying that a family of two needs nine rolls of toilet paper for a two-week period. Even considering that we have been a three-person household for several days over the past month, we have gone through less than half that amount of paper. I really do not know whether I should be proud or concerned.

There has been an ocean’s worth of water under the bridge since four weeks ago. I would imagine by this point the majority of us know people who have had the virus and recovered, or have someone we have personally known who has died from the virus. I got news last week that Scott Ensley of Macon, Georgia died of COVID-19. I first met Scott when we were both six years old and in Sunday School. Later we went to high school together and graduated in the same class. I have a friend who lives in England who had the virus about three weeks ago and reports that she felt really terrible for about twenty-four hours. Her father-in-law had had the virus a couple of weeks earlier and had about forty-eight hours of feeling really, really bad.

While I worry about those who are out working face to face with people, like the grocery store, convenience store, and feed store cashiers; the postal workers and delivery drivers; and especially the healthcare and emergency workers, I am so glad to see so many people being recognized as being vital and essential. At the same time, I have been very glad to see “celebrities” fade from the spotlight, some more than others.

We, as a society, had been hurtling down the road of misplaced priorities and while this pandemic has wrought many horrors and difficulties, as I am sure it will continue to do for awhile, it has certainly given us an opportunity to examine and adjust our priorities. I just hope we can hold onto any good all of this offers. What a waste if we cannot. What a dishonor to those we lose if we cannot.

I hope you all stay safe and healthy and that I can write to you in another two weeks. Spring-CreekArtsGuild@gmail.com