{"id":6686,"date":"2020-03-19T15:14:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T22:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=6686"},"modified":"2020-03-19T15:14:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T22:14:30","slug":"sensible-human-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=6686","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;&#8230;sensible, human things&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/49641869897\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Irvington 312\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49641869897_7c1198f265_w.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"343\" alt=\"Irvington 312\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><font face=\"Georgia\"><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><b>\u201cThis is the first point to be made: and the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things\u2014praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts\u2014not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p> &#8211; C. S. Lewis, \u201cOn Living in an Atomic Age\u201d (1948)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=Indent>How are you?<\/p>\n<p class=Indent>What are you doing these days?<\/p>\n<p class=Indent>In between poring over the paper, we are planting seeds and pulling weeds, painting, singing and (badly) sewing. Cooking. Cycling. Making wind chime #5. There has to be something to do other than camping out on the internet, worrying&#8230; Not that it&#8217;s easy, of course; these are, as the poet said, &#8220;the times that try [our] souls.&#8221; But, we&#8217;re grateful for the numerous online things to do, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dharmatrading.com\/gifts\/things-to-make-and-dodharma-tutorials.html\">Quarantine<\/a> Crafts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.refinery29.com\/en-us\/2020\/03\/9576127\/free-virtual-tours-online\">virtual adventures<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/cathedral.org\/\">virtual evensongs<\/a> to virtual sing-alongs. We&#8217;re grateful that we like each other, and that (when it quits raining) we can go out and enjoy the first moments of Springtime.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCourage did not come from the need to survive, or from a brute indifference inherited from someone else, but from a driving need for love which no obstacle in this world or the next world will break.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p>~ Gabriel Garcia M\u00e1rquez, from Love in the Time of Cholera <\/p>\n<p class=Indent>Be well.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}