My granddaddy had severe rheumatoid arthritis that limited his activity. He and my grandmother would watch their “stories” after lunch. As the World Turns was one of their favorite stories. When we visited I watched with them. 60 years ago these stories were mild in content and a kiss was rather risqué, different from the past 20 years or so. My watching it as a child never was an issue. The opening was simple…”And now for the next 30 minutes, AS THE WORLD TURNS”
3/13/2020 Rachel Maddox told how her world was turned, how things shifted for her as she attended a conference in Vancouver when she was in her 20s. My mind took me from there to thinking about how the world just now seems like it’s turning in a whole new way. Like there was a huge tilt in the axis, like North has moved, Like we have stepped into a new age. Cue music “ this is the dawning of the age of Aquarius”
Has it? We hear constantly about COVID-19 and it’s spreading danger and how we are all at risk. My world has been shifted because i am in the Elderly Population at 72. I feel more vulnerable. It feels like the birthday card I gave my husband John when he turned 40, You can run but you cannot hide. I suppose the reality is that we need to reconcile ourselves that eventually we will get this, we just pray it is a mild case,. That those little “viral crowns” don’t sneak into our lungs and multiply in mass and stop the lungs from functioning, i.e. kill us.
Sure as heck i am anxious. I am anxious for me and my whole family and friends I am afraid for anyone who gets this. Someone said it feels like you are going sky diving for the first time and there is nothing you can do to change your mind. So now what, AS THE WORLD TURNS? We accept that the world has turned. We accept that the way things are done globally have changed. We wait with horror considering what may happen in parts of the world where there is no remedy or health care.
Perhaps we should be focusing on the We of this world rather than on the me . Perhaps we should be using our considerable collective brainpower to make sure no one is left behind in these times. Perhaps we recognize no wall could repel nature’s warped fury. Perhaps we realize like a song my husband wrote, “We all go together or we don’t go at all.” And is that so bad? I rather think that it could be for the very good of all. Yet we rush to the grocery store to overstock on toilet paper like they were gold bars, (Apparently we also are sticking up I water and bananas though those to would be a whole new story.)
Yes, friends, As the World Turns is a good way to look at these times. Now, here and now, Be Here Now, all pertain to our lives. My granddaughter age 4 , Maggie Mae once started her day saying, IT IS THIS DAY”
Just where did all this fear come from? I think it has been building for the past 21 years or so at 1999-2000 when the end times were predicted. There seemed to be a concerted effort to make people fearful and then offer them, at a price $ of course, a solution to that fear, The Other became a real frightful thing/ person.
So the, how do we live in these uncharted times. We live in the sure and certain knowledge that we have power we have not begun to use. Power to empower the Scientists and Researchers to do their work. We empower the necessary funding for such endeavor. We empower ourselves to take precautionary measures to minimize the damage done. We hope. We pray. We listen. We know. We wait.
Like the Psalmist wrote in the 27th Psalm, I believe that I shall see the goodness of God in the land of the living.
God abides- in these days-as the world turns-It is this day
Bobbie Giltz McGarey
@03/14/2020 In Scottsdale AZ
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