December 2020 Oil on Panel

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Corona Journal Entry Read a post from friend Marc Lesser today about spaciousness and letting go of the need to achieve anything. I thought I’d try that on. Of course it had the inverse effect on me and though, as always, I was happy as a clam in the doing of it , the painting “thing” wasn’t working. I started to scrape off but that light was so irresistible. With darkness almost upon me, I had nothing to lose to go after it - fast and free. Back over the edge. It was already a scraper and I was happy in any case with my evening. Surprised now to be looking at this now and thinking that I got somewhere, pulled it back from the abyss. Was I spacious squared or totally missing the point? § New York is closing restaurants. CT and MA are leaving them open with restrictions. I picked up takeout in a local restaurant this week. Very rare event for me. It felt safe to get the takeout through a separate door. But there were plenty of diners inside eating and drinking. Of course no masks. I know these are tough decisions byt how can that make public health sense when cases are skyrocketing? Vaccine distribution priorities were announced in CT, NY and MA in the past couple days. Last group projected to be getting the vaccine in June. June. Six months from now. I’m no economist but wouldn’t the human AND socioeconomic costs be less if we just shut down until we shut the virus down? How? How is the question.