3/1/20/20
Global Body Warning: Follow the
Genome Koan Movement, Money, Money, Money, Keys of CDC with underground blues in
B flat pentatonic clinking on ice a la Fats Waller
I think often of my colleagues
still at work in the nursing home. In conversation with one who like me is not
at work I said, “it literally is dodging virus bullets.” Unfortunately, my
predictions again are realized as the COVID-19 virus spreads through a nursing
home on the West Coast. It infects health care workers and others. Well, we get
to wear face masks, paper gowns, plastic gloves and goggles. Not exactly impermeable
to the little invisible critters bouncing around on coughs and hanging onto the
surfaces of living and dying things and people. We all go away in the end. Wait
a minute. That’s Johnny Cash sort of. “Everyone goes away in the end.” That
last name Cash. Hmm. That is the word. Money, money, money. In the keys of CDC
or as we clinicians know, it can be called clinical deadly care. That of course
is not the way we see it most of the time. It is better known as The Center for
Disease Control and Prevention. Ah, my heart dear ones from all over the world.
You came here to work and start again in what may feel like a million miles
away from your homes to find a way to be and to give.
And now we can share with people
who did not care to know, that Public Health is inextricably intertwined with
all economies in the world. How stupid we have been as humans to not build into
our lives the very things we need to take care of ourselves and the earth. How
foolish and deadly.
I Wanna Be a Billionaire.
Well Bruno is not quite there
yet. He’s worth about a quarter of that.
Beware the Snake. I like
Shania Twain’s take on greed. She’s made more than Bruno, but she is a few
years older, and writes a lot of songs. Ka Ching is the name of this one. She
nails it. To put it mildly she did not have a suburban childhood. She is
everything Taylor Swift is not. Except talented both are truly that.
Beethoven’s Virus
And finally, for today, here is a
rag tag young orchestra from Vietnam playing of all things Beethoven’s Virus
which is a take on Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor Opus 13. Look at their faces. Positively loving what
they are doing. They don’t sound bad at all. I will take this any day over the hyper
stuffy other youth orchestras. They rock and kick butt.
Sometimes we need interludes to
heal. I hope you have those in these times. My cup of zazen is brewing.
