When the Power is Out

“The man is not sick because he has an illness he has an illness because he is sick.”  An Old Chinese Proverb Years ago, well actually shortly before C-19 came into being, I had a scary dream/vision sort of thing. In this dream/vision sort of thing there was a city with lots of people mulling around and the word  Bacteria  came across my dream screen. I woke up. Later, maybe the following year, C-19 lockdowns began. How odd, I thought, as my brain reminisced about the dream/vision sort of thing I had. My dream must have missed the mark on that one. In the last 20 years or so there has been the appearance of H1N1, a subtype of the influenza virus, SARS as a related coronavirus, MERS also related to coronavirus, and Ebolavirus which the CDC has a patent on it and the vaccine. Of course there are other viruses, but, I”m thinking outside the box here. What if all these new vaccines are to weaken/destroy our human immune system and suddenly there are no antibiotics to be had a...

I should have paid more attention. I wish I would have listened to Grandmas stories a little more. Grams was born January of 1900 and loved us until she was 96. One day she simply said “This old body has had enough, I miss grandpa. I love you.” And she was gone. My grandparent spent 71 years together. I sure so do miss her sitting across the counter from me and my cousin, telling us stories of life in her cabin before the state made her and grandpa put in electricity. That was in the late 1960’s, if memory serves me correctly. She was upset about the whole deal, Grams loved the cabin just the way it was. My Dad and Grandpa built this home for their retirement. Lovingly put together from the trees on the property. Nestled next to an old dirt road, the log cabin faced a pristine body of water. At the time it was built there were no other houses around that crystal clear lake at all. It was peaceful and serene. During my working days I spent many years caring for old people. Some in nursi...