Pandemic: All the People Hide

 

The coronavirus pandemic has shoved us all into relying on the computer or the phone being the primary way to see and talk with each other. But my favorite modality is REAL HUMANS MEETING WITH REAL HUMANS! I’m an extrovert, so this era is a challenge for me. That’s a polite way of saying I hate it. I know we all do, despite the potential benefits of being forced into greater self-reliance. And computers are intimidating and frustrating for me. When my husband Stan hits a snag online, he says, “Let me play.” He messes around with the keys, shoves things around in cyberspace, and lo and behold, something works. He can’t say why and he can’t say what he actually did. I, on the other hand, hitting a snag, want to throw the machine out the window and cry.

On the positive side, I have learned to use Zoom, FaceTime and Skype. So I can, in fact, see the faces and hear the voices of people I care about. This is good. And I’m preparing food more thoughtfully than usual. And sometimes I don’t know what the heck I’ve done with my day. Binge-watching television series does come to mind. And because I am retired, with grown kids and grandkids, the empty spaces of time in the pandemic  have gotten me to pay attention again to my neglected blog.

In 2020, as the worldwide health disaster unfolded, a new song about the coronavirus pandemic wrote itself through me. That means that the lyrics and tune presented itself effortlessly.  It’s called “All the People Hide”. Other than the fact that the message is really sad, I like it a lot. It’s on my new album, “A Truckload of Songs: Nineteen Songs for the Year Of Covid 19″, available on Bandcamp.com.  Hardly anybody puts so many songs on one album. But why not? They all fit on one CD, so indulge or pick and choose.

All the People Hide