Easter, Coronavirus Update

Dear Read­ers,

Hap­py East­er! May God’s lov­ing mer­cy fill your life.

I am shar­ing an arti­cle I wrote for Pos­i­tive­ly Fil­ipino about Coro­n­avirus: The Begin­ning.  It talks about my vis­it to the Philip­pines in late Jan­u­ary, ear­ly Feb­ru­ary, when Coro­n­avirus was explod­ing in Chi­na. It begins:

“When I vis­it­ed Mani­la last Jan­u­ary 20 the air was thick with smog­gy haze from the ash fall of Taal Vol­cano. Taal had erupt­ed on Jan­u­ary 12–13 and destroyed people’s homes and farms and killed live­stock. Peo­ple in Luzon were busy help­ing the dis­placed peo­ple and clean­ing up the ash fall.

http://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/coronavirus-the-beginning

I am back in Cal­i­for­nia and like most peo­ple I mon­i­tor the news, and stay home and try to be as safe as pos­si­ble.  I try to fill my time with cre­ative activ­i­ty, so I don’t obsess over these hor­rif­ic and sad events.  Despite the deaths and dis­rup­tion, I believe that Nature is talk­ing to us, call­ing our atten­tion, balk­ing at how Man has treat­ed our waters, our air, our forests, our ani­mals, every­thing around us.  As a result of the lock downs, the air is actu­al­ly clean­er and ani­mals have been vis­it­ing areas that they have not been seen in for some­time now, Venice Canal in Italy for instance has had dol­phin visitors.

Man will sur­vive, as it has oth­er pan­demics. Hope­ful­ly, Man will learn from this coro­n­avirus pandemice.

I pray that my read­ers will be safe. Bless­ings to all of you.  Peace be with you.

Here are some art­work I have been exper­i­ment­ing with. Today, East­er Sun­day, two God­dess images, mixed media.

tags: East­er, art, #writ­er­swholoveart  paint­ing, Fil­ipino, Philip­pines, #god­dess­es