Yes, there will also be singing. / About the dark times.

Without a hint of sarcasm, cynicism, naïveté, or religious undertones, carefree Friday, sweetie darlings. If only for three minutes and thirty-nine seconds.

With all that's going on, come on! Yes, with all that's going on. Precisely because of all that's going on. Day by day we're adapting to the awful, and for the sake of your sanity and ability to function, to some extent you have to adapt or lose your footing, sense of belonging, and purpose. It is genuinely quite stressful and demoralizing, even paralyzing. But let's not normalize the awful or it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

So do look after yourself, your sanity and ability to function, in any and every way that works for you, or you will lose said sanity and ability to function. And you don't want that. You have work to do. So be it art, exercise, comfort food, friends, family, community, whatever puts your mind at ease while nourishing it, go for it. We're not winning battles on an empty stomach, a fried brain, or a famished soul.

The dogs bark but the caravan moves on.

To be continued.