that started for us in March of 2020 .
I remember when 20 days in the pandemic used to seem like a very long time. Those days now seem like a lifetime ago. Actually, it truly was many people's lifetimes ago. Over the past 20 months, COVID has taken over 725,000 lives in the USA alone. And the count continues on.
At this point, time seems to have no longer have meaning to me. The days have turned into weeks and the weeks into months and the months into years. This world pandemic continues on; with the United States still being the leader in all things bad.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE get vaccinated. Wear a mask when indoors when with strangers or when in the company of the unvaccinated. Be responsible. Help control COVID-19. Help stop this pandemic from continuing on for 20 years. Twenty years would be an awful lot of full moons to have to count off like a prisoner counts off marks on a prison cell wall…
A prisoner to the pandemic is how I now feel with each new full moon. Remembering times of the past, I so long to be able to look up in the sky, feel good again, and just amaze in the moon's beauty. I want to NOT have each full moon be associated with how long this horrible pandemic (that our world is currently experiencing) is continuing on. This pandemic has taken away our freedom and continues to steal lives.
People can pretend, but the world is not back to normal. How many more moons will it take before it someday will be??? Faced with both a very unpredictable virus and even more unpredictable (and selfish) human behavior, it somewhat seems like that may never happen. Life – as we once knew it – may never really return. Not in the foreseeable future anyhow...
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