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May 20, 2020
Memories
this time last year we were in Paris it was as wonderful as we had hoped the first sight we had above ground was of Eiffel’s tower against a sunset as golden as the time we were having celebrating our thirtieth year in a café sipping wine beneath its very shadow we saw Notre Dame, from a distance lunched and cruised along the Seine climbed both the Pantheon and the Arc were astounded within Sainte-Chapelle by the love for God behind such beauty looked out over it all from Montmartre and we heard, no matter where we went sirens, saw streaming police cars chase past the buses we were sightseeing from erupting heavily armoured (and armed) guardians of the public’s safety, smiling gracious as we walked by, as quiet they discussed their private concerns aside when we left Paris we heard of entire subway lines that had been shut down for the fear of terrorists and bombs and yet I don’t recall feeling afraid at all they were good at doing what they did quiet, attentive, relaxed and self-assured part of the scenery, for the most part as we enjoyed both history and today
this time this year we’re staying inside don’t travel much but to get groceries for us and Mom and Doris and her crew and then are masked and socially distant no armoured guards surround danger but our care-givers are wearing capes yet even now, fear is strangely distant though not only a subway but everything is shut down to greater or lesser degree we’re not hiding so much as are careful that the bug keeping us in these days these strange, astoundingly lovely days harms neither us nor those we love
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