This sign first came to my attention on a recent morning walk.
I laughed out loud. There was no traffic. Cars that ordinarily would have been used to get people to school, work, shopping, wherever… were instead 
filling the diagonal parking slots along empty streets.
Signs of the Times
Others have since appeared during my neighborhood walks. Ones painted with humor and hope.
Encouragement to keep on truckin 
New life in an improbable location 
An Invitation to celebrate 
and share 
The joy of family life 
(plus a reminder to keep our ducks in a row.
Nature even signed up with a sunrise view of the Colorado National Monument 
— once part of the Ancestral Rock
Mountains which were formed some 300 million years ago. And are still here.
Which led me to wonder. How will history view our response to this Age of Covid-19? What kind of society will we have formed? 
There’s a lot at stake.
Consider
How to balance a free society’s obligation to protect the physically and mentally at-risk with the motivation to guard the financial and emotional health of the economically vulnerable.
Simon & Garfunkel began their “Feelin’ Groovy” hit by advising listeners who “move too fast” to
So that hopefully we’ll again be singing the bottom line of their song:
“Life, I love you.”
