Covid 4.0

So here we are at the 4^th Anniversary of the great shutdown.  It still seems unbelievable and many of us don’t even want to think further about things that were lost and will never be recovered.  But like my maps of the land and the water, which represent a moment in time, this needs appropriate documentation, so we don’t forget.  The patterns of the water on the sand, a most dynamic environment, are endlessly changing and fascinating to us for as long as we have been looking at them.  We invent physical markers to record ephemeral events because we cannot capture them any other way.  Sundials, astrolabes, calendars, clocks, longitude….all mercury under a glass.  We only know the present.  The past is over, and the future hasn’t happened yet.  And if Covid taught us anything, it’s that the future is not guaranteed to anyone.   It is one of the attractions/repulsions of such dynamic environments, the uncertainly of the relationship of any two variables, that seems to draw our attention.  Covid….the environment….some of the biggest unknowns of our lifetime.  Embrace the ambiguity of our existence and keep searching for a roadmap so we don’t forget where we’ve been and have a better idea of where we’re going.