April | 2020 | reverse threading

EVE 48″ x 48″

like many of you, i have laid awake many nights now. exhausted when i lay my head down and then, voila!, wide awake. the middle of the night has many monsters these days. it used to be that as i lay awake and would get hungry and hungrier, i would convince david that the perfect thing, rousing him from sleep, would be to have a 3am bowl of cereal together. since we went dairy-gluten-free i’ve substituted and have chosen a banana in the wee hours. somewhere i read that bananas are sleep aids, so waking david up to have a banana seemed like i was helping him. but now, we have no bananas.

we need to go to the grocery store. but it’s complicated, with disinfecting wipes during our trip there and being absolutely careful upon our return home to wash everything or store it for a period of time. it’s important, vital. we step back from the person who is a personal-space-invader. we make room on the walking path for those coming the other way. we marvel at the recklessness of large numbers of people still gathering in spaces. we weep for those who have succumbed to a disease that is apparently sorely underestimated.

this painting, eve, is a beautiful landscape of color and shape. eve, religiously historic as the first woman.

is it possible that the apple of eve and adam, the one in the story from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, could now be seen as a casualness toward the spread of this pandemic, a cavalier attitude, a lack of regard toward social distancing or the peril facing citizens, medical personnel, workers at essential businesses? the apple that, in the story, changed everything, for all time?

another reason to choose bananas.

read DAVID’s thoughts this D.R. THURSDAY

EVE ©️ 2004 david robinson

i was really, really happy when it started snowing. not only was this softly falling snow beautiful, but it placed me back in time. although listing toward spring, it is, actually, mostly still winter. it is march. it is wisconsin.

time is warping and it is difficult to remember what day it is, nonetheless what month it is. the stress of worry, of deep concern for our children, our families, our friends, of social distancing and isolation, of working remotely – all of it has taken us out of time.

although there were many negative social media comments about it snowing, i was grateful. we went out and walked in it.

snows are different. there’s the light snow that blows across the sidewalk as you walk. there’s the heavy snow that invites you to make snowballs and greet snowmen as you pass them in the neighborhood. and then there is this – the magical snow that feels and looks like stars falling from the sky. we walked in quiet, mostly.

march. wisconsin. winter poised on the birth of spring. snow. it grounded us back into right now. we believe all things will come. in time. we are all marking time. one day we will sit in the warm sun. one day this worry will lessen.

in the meanwhile, i say let it snow.

read DAVID’S thoughts this NOT-SO-FLAWED WEDNESDAY

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Monthly Archives: April 2020

apples and bananas. [d.r. thursday]

and then it snowed. [not-so-flawed wednesday]

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