By Slanted Light

I'm okay--a few sneezes and it's annoying that I've had only four days off since January 3rd--but I envy you your spring, flowering trees and outside-lunch weather. How lovely that your village is so full of helpful and giving people. For all the evidence of panic in my city (no toilet paper in stores) the people I'm actually talking to seem to be cheerful and determined to have as ordinary a life as is safe and possible. So I feel lucky.