A meditation for our time.
Fear is a terrible and mind numbing force. Fear leads to panic which leads to irrational emotions and actions. I had been reading, on social media, that there was a shortage of toilet paper at stores throughout the country. I thought that it was a joke. Yes we are in the beginning of a pandemic…but toilet paper? What about beans, or peanut butter, or coffee, or flour…or rib eye steaks? Today, Jonathon and I traveled to our nearest Sam’s Box store and discovered that, indeed they did not have a square of toilet paper. Also there were displayed many empty areas in the massive freezers sections illustrating a general run on food…and especially…paper! I engaged in the great toilet paper search last evening. As I walked the aisle of our local Wal-Mart I saw the barest shelfs that I had ever seen. I asked a friend who was working in…
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