Mowing the lawn is always fun for me, but yesterday's session felt extra special.
Every so often, I'd take a break and take a picture with my iphone.
Hard to describe the exhilaration of looking at that brilliant sky and the September sun gradually moving southward and all the early fall beauty around me.
So, the photos may help.
I doubt that I'll mow the lawn too many more times this year, and the beastly hot summer took away the usual pleasure.
But yesterday lawn mowing was better than ever.
I don't think we'll have such blue skies again for a while with a weekend of rain predicted.
Moments spent on that lawnmower also provide lots of thinking time about the happenings outside the boundaries of our beautiful and peaceful Lovestead sanctuary.
The death toll from Covid in Bonner County has risen by 8 in the past week, some of whom I even knew.
Weekly cases in Bonner County are averaging 63.4 per day.
And, yet, the focus by some, as noted in the story below, on what's important seems to stray far from the concerns of life and death.
I would hate to be an educator or any educational staff member in this climate.
Furthermore, I would hate to be a nurse or any medical professional.
And, I would hate to be a decision maker in the midst of the insanity and absurdities that prevail throughout all levels of this nation in the name of freedom.
The abuse so many have endured while working their hearts out to serve others is disgraceful.
Somehow, the word "freedom" has taken on some outlandish new definitions, depending on individual perspectives.
My perspective about "freedom" has always included the basic essential of also taking responsibility for one's actions.
While riding my lawnmower, I often think about the many dark and disturbing aspects of society, which we've witnessed during this wearisome Pandemic.
I also ponder the ever-evolving question of "why it has it all come to these extremes where something so final and so heart-wrenching as death no longer seems to have any impact on the need to keep on agitating and stirring the pot.
I think our educators, our medical professionals and the vast array of our decisionmakers deserve better from their constituents as they trudge forward trying do their very best to save and protect lives.
What IS it going to take to see a sense of humanity turn this disturbing behavior in our history?
Seems like I've asked that question before.
Sadly, as we fall deeper into the abyss of selfish insensitivity and ruthless, mean-spirited disdain toward others, I'm sure it will come up again and again.
Sad and grim.
Thank God for my lawnmower and the pretty sights I get to see while being consumed with all this thinking.
Hoping for happier times.
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