(or Living la Vida Local) “Community’s not a sentiment. It has to do with necessity – with people needing each other. If you allow the larger industrial system to remove the pattern of needs that is the force holding people together, then you lose the community.” –Wendell Berry Well, this essay is different than what I had planned to write before Corona Virus became a household word and worldwide concern. What struck me is that in this time when so much has changed so rapidly, we have the opportunity to notice what we take for granted, how attached we are to certain things, and what is relatively easy to let go…
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It Is What It Is
On December 31, 2019, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) became aware of coronavirus cases in China. They began developing reports for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on January 1. Just a few months after that, the coronavirus left 40 million Americans without jobs, tanked our economy, and killed over 170,000 of us. Now, here we are in August, more than 1000 people are still dying every day, and yet, the official response is, “It is what it is.” In other words, the 170,000+ deaths were unavoidable in the eyes of our national leaders. They believe they did everything possible to curtail the effects…
