Guest Post by Dave Evans
My Dear fellow human Sojourners,
For the past nearly two years we have been living in fear, fleeing madly from a phantom virus that has stolen our humanity and divided us as never before. Without direct and free human contact can we ever heal the differences between us? Our electronic devices, virtual worlds and social media only serve to separate us more than ever. Must we live in our little, self-imposed isolated worlds where the healthy are scorned and to be human thought of as a disease? Why have we allowed this to happen?
I miss those warm summer evenings where we used to gather on each other’s porches, on our rooftops, front steps, in the village square or down by the corner market laughing, crying and reminiscing about life and its many joys, difficulties and absurdities. I miss your embrace. When I go to the market now and I see so many wearing those hideous face coverings of obedience I do not know whether to laugh or cry. Mostly I cry. I do not like to see you humiliated and deprived of precious oxygen. Your right to breathe freely is an inalienable human right and anything less is insensitive and cruel.
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