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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.

Last week a foot of snow, this week was rain. Standing by this stream reminds me of how powerful nature is, and yet how foolishly we often try and tame it. It’s the holidays and yet instead of addressing Christmas cards, I stand by the side of the road in awe of the roaring water and think how the power can be both friend and foe. As friend, there are opportunities to be harnessed to provide power to factories and schools or heat to our homes, or for drinking water in times of drought. And yet that same stream we think we can tame can become a damaging overflow ripping out foundations of houses, or loosening tree roots and unleashing mudslides. We must remember any, and every, partnership requires respect...just as each drop of water has little power by itself, together flowing in the same direction that dynamic can change. The one thing this pandemic has done has slowed things down and removed a lot of the day to day distractions many of us were caught in that kept us too busy to notice many things. And yet, the days continue to march on and we cannot stop time any more than I could march into this stream and stop it.