Diary 24

Saturday, April 11th.

The US recorded 2108 deaths in one day, yesterday (Friday) from covid-19.
As far as I can tell none of these people are known to me. Yet they are not just nameless strangers. Whenever any one dies in this way, through the neglect of leaders or governments, or because of inequalities or failures of a system of which I am a part, I am affected, too. When any member of our society is disrespected, left unprotected, left to die needlessly, we are all being disrespected and abandoned. There is no ‘them’ and ‘us’.

We are all one.

In contrast to this I found myself gazing blankly at my computer, and I have discovered that I can make 84 words of three letters or more, using only the top deck of my keyboard – QWERTYUIOP – using each letter only once. This excludes foreign words and non-standard words like pro and trow.