Saturday, April 25th 2020
Day Forty, remember Noah:
It’s been Forty Days, and Forty Nights…
Good morning all of you members of the Ark! The way it seems to me, we should now be disembarking The Good Ship Corona? But alas, it is not to be, for we will have to weather the storm for a while longer…
I had my filtered, healthy Peets, and left for my solo walk at 6:30. It was so hot yesterday that I decided to go out a little earlier this morning.
When I got back I watched The Beatles, Yellow Submarine on YouTube, hence the boat theme today. Ha ha!
There seems to be a strong resemblance between our homes which we have been banished to, and Noah’s Ark if you are Christian, and other names, theories, and stories if you are not…Stay with me here, let me ramble on a bit… Here we go:
Once there was a worldwide flood (The CoronaVirus), sent to judge the wickedness of man (Not shutting down wet market’s, and selling dead bats). But there was one righteous family (The family of Woman and Man) which was forewarned of the coming flood. They built a boat (Our homes) on which they survived the flood along with their animals. As the flood ended, their boat landed on a high mountain (The end of the virus) from which they descended and repopulated the earth (The end of the fable is still to come)… I’m not done yet:
A flood story is one in which a great deluge, usually sent by a superior being, destroys civilization, often in an act of divine rebuke. Similarities are often drawn between the flood waters and the cleansing of humanity in preparation for rebirth.
Most flood stories also contain a cultural hero who represents the human craving for survival.
I think all of us wonder when we will be able to come down off that mountain, and when we will be able to repopulate with our families and friends. None of us know for sure, but I think we will come away from this with a better appreciation of life with others, and an understanding that we need to work together as human beings, and shed the prejudice and political infighting that seems to rule our world.
I think Ringo Starr says it best: “Peace and Love”
I watched “My Name is Nobody” on YouTube…
We did Face-Time with Jim and Mary at about 5:30, it was great to actually see them. We were in our back yards, it was about ninety degrees in Concord and Sacramento. We caught-up, swapped stories and enjoyed our virtual happy hour.
I went back to YouTube and watched “Duck You Sucker”. Two Spaghetti Westerns in one day, Wow! Today has been Boats and Horses.
Time for bed…