Robin moved and started a new job in Pennsylvania two weeks before the lockdown. This is inspired by a morning walk.

Gracious, tolerant, gentle and kind.

The favorable qualities we attribute to ourselves

until an unfavorable post on social media

breaks through our façade.

Today, I acknowledge my own shortcomings

and realize being higher on the food chain

doesn’t necessarily equate with being better off.

The fox knows its predator and prey alike.

The rooster knows to crow at the break of dawn

and the chipmunk scurries at the sound of rustling brush.

Yet in a COVID-19 world, it seems I have nothing to do

but sit and ponder the meaning of it all.

HELEN KELLER wrote:

“True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”