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Covid-19 Has Tippy-Toed Into My Life

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Yes, though twice-vaccinated two friends of mine are apparently inflicted with this loathsome illness; the gentleman of the couple is showing egregious symptoms and his partner is showing significant symptoms.  This gentleman has recently visited his daughter who is part of the anti-vax movement.  He has recently done work for us in the yard, more with myself than my wife.  He and I worked in close proximity and frequently handled the same tools.  I am scheduled for my Moderna booster show tomorrow but I am now on alert myself. I have a Bio-Max home testing kit which I will utilize this afternoon. We have curtailed some events and cancelled get-togethers with friends.   I had to venture into town this morning and made a point of adding rubber gloves to my face-mask diligence and plan to make fewer of these treks into town.

My “venture” into my lovely hometown of Taos, New Mexico helped me to appreciate the diligence that Taos and its citizens have demonstrated the past two years as this “beast” has presented itself.  My friends and townspeople I encounter readily accepted the Covid-19 protocol with a few exceptions here and there.  I do have two close friends however, both lovely souls with a keen sense for the spiritual, that have steadfastly refused this vaccination.
This Covid-19 experience has deepened my belief in God, for I see it as one of Her wake-up calls to my lovely country.  She initially slapped our face with Trump and his minions and we failed to listen to Her judgement; so, she followed with the double-whammy of Covid-19.  Yes, I here share my conviction that God is more than ideology, She is not a “thing” which we so readily fail to realize our thoughts are.  Here I will not humiliate this God I believe in with my theological and metaphysical palaver.  Now having the courage to appreciate that God is not “male or female”, I even have introduced the female pronoun to His/Her name!  I see, think, and feel that God is an incomprehensible Mystery that is woven into the very fabric of our being, some “thing” that is not a “thing” but a Presence that we can find in our life if the aforementioned “Divine Intervention” can be heeded.

Clinical “Executive Functioning” Now Direly Needed!!!

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Executive function is a clinical term to describe one’s ability to manage his life, to deal with its stresses and strains and to manage them with wisdom. This function of the cerebral cortex offers us “working memory, flexible thinking, and self-control” which facilitates an ability to exercise this gift in fulfilling our basic needs and doing so in cooperation with others… most of which are usually busy trying to do the same. Impairment of this neurological gift will make it “hard to focus, follow directions, and handle emotions.”  Its diminishment will leave us with unconscious fears and anxieties, creating problems for our life and for those around us.

As this pandemic continues to beset us, like a hawk circling above looking for additional prey, our nation’s, “executive functioning” is woefully inadequate, specifically with our Federal government and its “executive.”  We are immersed in a spiritual crisis; and humankind is equipped with an ability to “manage” crises, but only if we can do so with direction and a spirit of harmony. If our collective “executive functioning” functions maturely it will demonstrate a capacity to learn from experience, recognize error, and adjust our strategy.  It will accept responsibility for the crisis, not fretting over “who’s at fault” but on “how can we address this crisis?” most effectively.

We live in a world of contingency; circumstances are always present. But we have been given human “agency”, the capacity to act meaningfully toward what lies before us, hoping that as we do so we are acting toward the betterment of all. With the empowerment of this efficacy, we can facilitate a “purge” of the “common weal.”  And this brings to my mind the illimitable wisdom of Shakespeare, alluding here to his play, Macbeth, when his allies were recognizing the peril of staying with their “executive.”

Well, march we on
To give obedience where ’tis truly owed.
Meet we the medicine of the sickly weal,
And with him pour we in our country’s purge
Each drop of us.

So, will we manage to pour “each drop of us” into the “purge” that we need?  And in present day, the “medicine of our sickly weal” needs to be a spirit of unity, not any “Macduff” and his boys.  Nevertheless, we could readily utilize a leader in whom we can put our faith, providing this caveat is considered—faith in a leader always carries the risk of finding a leader who is nothing but another version of Trump.