Indeed. I am both surprised and not surprised by this pestilence that has paralyzed and traumatized the entire world. Not surprised, because I knew in my bones that we are on borrowed time, after all the havoc we have wrought on this planet. Surprised because — obviously — I did not expect THIS…a global pandemic leading to a global quarantine and a complete collapse of the commerce that keeps the whole Glomart engine humming along…At such points, I cannot resist shifting into more mythic domains of thought and seeing all of this as Gaia’s revenge — but also as a (potential) great awakening for humanity into the realization that we are One…that all these petty nation states and corporations we have created are just so many mental formations…or, as old Willie the S. once put it, “like the baseless fabric of this vision,/The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces,/The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, and like this insubstantial pageant faded, leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff/As dreams are made on, and our little life/Is rounded with a sleep…”