Can you add a fifth prayer between your hand and your eyes? 🙏 Now more than ever.

Dear Kindly Dr. Fauci
They’re holding it inside
We really are not certain, where to run and hide
We don’t speak-each other’s language
As the safest way to go
We trust in following info. from those best in the know
As safety and precautions have kept New York at bay-
We know best to listen to the people with what to say
We still have no decisions to keep from getting ill
They have no certain ways, of administering a pill
With phasing up the ladder as a cure is on the way-
The scientists are quiet until they know just what to say
The Sun and start of summer have whistled to be heard
We gather our hopes and prayers and wait to hear the word!

Dear Kindly Dr. Fauci we’re here to check back in
We are doubling down our pleading
We really need this win
The world’s in massive chaos
Taken it’s eye off the ball
We need to get back with it
Before our continued fall
With strength and determination we need to win the race
The virus has no limit
And seems to pick on Race
The world is lost in mourning
We’re loosing our grip and fast
With your team in rapid motion, your working it en masse.
Your words backed with so much knowledge, are proving to be true
The virus will approach, the world has not a clue
“I told you so” resonated loudly, we need to take a cue
Your strength based on conviction
We need to pull us through
So again we beg you
With one knee on the ground
Please impart your knowledge of anything you’ve found.
We miss Dear Dr. Birx and all her kind support
You Aced it when it came, to choosing a cohort. We’ll write you back much sooner
As we follow our routine
As in “better safe than sorry”
We will continue our regime.

Dear Kindly Dr. Fauci

You gotta understand 

We sat on pins and needles

Waited for your command

With your advice and thoughts and knowledge, for a moment we would rest

With Dr. Birx beside you, we knew we had the best

We clung to every word and followed all we could 

There was never any question if we could we would

“There is hope, there is hope

There is untapped hope

 Psychologically there is hope“

The effects of this deadly virus, no one knew its scope

We need to hear your guidance as how to act and cope

With fear and resolution

You’ll lead us to a cure
Our best intentions only
We can bank on that for sure
Gee, Dr. Fauci

We need to see your face

There is nothing less than pleading 

For your honor and your grace

Unleash the information as quickly as you can 

It’s you who we depend on you’re the Man , you’re the Man

As history has proven they will unveil a cure

Please Dr. Fauci, tell us all you know and more

“Deep down inside there is hope, there is hope we call our blessed Doctor “Pope”

Bring back dear Dr. Birx, her scarves made quite a splash

When the world gets better 

To you both we’ll raise a glass
We will laugh as we remember the illogical command
That Lysol would be the answer
With the waving of hand

Greetings from “Lake Get Me Outta Here”
I am done -and officially resigning from the planet. Having a yard sale on my terrace- salt and pepper shakers, antacids and airplane playing cards in abundance. A lot of good this all did me now that I am resigning from cooking, ordering food and my addiction to swifter sweeper wet pads. Thank G-d we didn’t get sick, but I think we are shedding dust balls. Haven’t hosted a dinner, a mj or canasta game or had any drive by visitors in my living room, but the balls keep coming. The dust is outta control. It is only two of us here and sometimes one, on the days I check out and binge my way from the Ozarks to the handmaids tale girls getting the crap beaten outta them. So it is an official announcement people. If you were looking to get rid of me anyone cause like in the collateral damage category i.e. I came with the deal, no worries, adios. If you were luke in the temperature dept. you will quickly forget me. For the few peeps who held me dear and loved me, I apologize in advance. I am taking a Pasadena for today. I will see you after my one on one with Dr. Fauci. I gotta ask him how he kept a straight face, except for that one time where he laughed in his hands. I believe the picture of the Bible in the hands of the demonic despot- kicked my can out of the playing field. BH 🙏

There are no more weeks or week-ends. The articulation of time within each day has become more specific and eloquent than ever before. We have traded the shape of every week for the architecture of the hours.

As something to look forward to in a new normal fashion I will relish my time around a table. Shuffling cards and remembering to take the talon will bring back the tactile component that is essential to the game of play. In our Chicken Little the Sky is falling reality, we geared up the electronics, dialed into our familiar voices and brought the game auditorily alive. Yes, it gets us through, yes it connects us to “the what used to be’s.” In the absence of masks and gloves, we are comfortably sequestered in our game spot on the couch. We bring our own drinks and snacks and we click away. We miss faces, although it feels like two months have aged us in the mirror two years. Perhaps it is the hue and the palor of limping through the malady that has claimed the world. So just for today, with an additional increment of hope, let’s visit our closet, check out our earrings and remember the everything old is new again adage. In short order we can be bringing our own coffee, and snack packing our way around a real live deck of cards.

As we try to use every ounce of well being that we have to self soothe and remain calm in the face of “no end in signt” chaos we round out another week. The world is on hold while a deadly virus ravages through mobs of people and kills our society, rapidly. With an uncertain future we are left to pool our resources, find our comfort levels and help each other with what we have left at the end of the day. Pushing aside differences and judgments we need to live with the motto “we are all in this together.” Our needs are fundamental in a no frills way. As we assemble the pieces of the puzzles we seek to create better pictures then what lingers right outside our front doors. With the new vocabulary of social distancing adorned with masks and gloves, we have replaced after dinner mints with mini purell bottles. Fridays come quickly, weekends last longer. The familiarity of Saturday Night Live characters, albeit zoomed into our homes, comforts us in a dependable way. We are all substituting our daily go to’s with virtual everything’s. Just for today let’s find enjoyment in our muffins, do our hair and focus on Making someone else’s day better.

We wipe off the counter, we swifter the floor
Everyday feels like the one before
We are doing our best to stay safe inside, is there something to share when we won’t have to hide?
Cooking the dinner and setting the table
A walk on a sidewalk, when will we be able?
The yogurt at Bloomy’s one place we will run
When we can get out and reclaim some fun!
A car ride to no where would be such a pleasure
Next Thursday a lunch outside a great treasure
Show us in some way you really are keen
Give us a swab, a test, a vaccine
Our journey’s not over all though it’s been halted
We long for a coffee shop, a burger a malted. At 7 o’clock we yell out with pride, for our health care community who have been by our side And when the day comes for us to bolt out the door, we will hit the ground running, like never before. Let’s all pray to G-d that the world as we know it, will grow kinder and warmer and we will be able to show it. A disaster of immense proportion we are sharing, with promise and strength let’s re- define caring.

We long for days where we can walk barefoot early in the spring, and stay that way later into the fall.
We would dance more and ride merry-go rounds. Picking daisies towards end of day will be a treasure. We hope to have a more passionate relationship with our freedom. We will consider everyday a blessing and feel our days have been gifted to us. Days of Glory! We will value the benefits of linking with other people and hopefully know we were lucky to have come through this in one piece.