getting the vaccine

I went out today and as I was travelling and had time to contemplate the year, I first of all find that time is just racing by. I would also state that wearing your mask, sanitizing and social distancing when out has become second nature. When you get home, you change clothes, have a bath or wash up and if you hear a plane overhead, you watch it go by because it is no longer common to hear them. Traffic when you travel is not too bad, and between stores, there are now an occassional boarded up business. The apocalypse isn't a dark, dreary blue black...according to covid-19 it is a dull colourless sort of zombie-esk feeling when you look at the landscape. The beautiful trees that bloom at this time of year have provided a reprieve, but they are not as plentiful as years past. It is weird as well that there is a tiredness from doing way less than one normally would on a given day. But also, tired based on doing lots of things that you would not ordinarily do on a normal day...but way more online work. The staying in one spot and the only reprieve being eating and drinking...the monotony can be draining. Yet, life is going on. Plans are stillbeing made. There is still hope. It is just that the vaccine and the virus are not proving to be bringing anything back to normalcy. To read about all of the strains that are suddenly cropping up and that some vaccines are not absolutely guaranteed cause all of us some concern. My families friends are all calling and asking the same questions and making the same statements about whether or not they would take the vaccine. All say that they would prefer to see what can happen in the next three, six, nine and year ahead before they commit. Meanwhile our Prime Minister got the virus just a week after the vaccine was freighted to us. To then top it off, a neighboring island has just experienced a vocanic eruption...you cannot make these things up! Dramas abound. You have to balance your emotions, balance your life....hold on to your job or jobs....try to think about how to do better in the months ahead and just keep juggling. I think the best thing is that this is happening to everyone on the planet.No one is isolated here. We are all feeling all of these things, and I am grateful.