These are strange times. We continue to get messages of instructions in case of a real swine flu pandemic. The way it was described at a faculty meeting is the flu virus as a rubic’s cube. It keeps shifting around, shifting around, mutating. If it ever clicks in at the right spot for a more deadly virus that is resistant to current shots, bingo, we have a real deadly flu epidemic world-wide again. Schools closing would be some of the least bothersome things to happen. More like, people dying, possible quarantines, panic spreading. That would be the worst.
I wonder sometimes what we are in for. My kids and grandkids are now scattered to the winds in 4 different states. What if communication systems and technology really did break down for a length of time?? What then? I would be distraught and praying hours per day for their well-being, and not knowing. Our neighborhoods really would become our communities, as there would be no traveling per se.
I have this feeling, sometimes, that we have no idea what is really coming around the corner. And it is RIGHT around the corner! We’ve all been given all the warnings, and we do not heed them. We continue on as if it’s business as usual. It’s a sense of foreboding, and yet the foreboding is more about how to spiritually prepare? What really is the next step that God wants me to take? How can I connect more with the people around me? My family is so close, yet it is all dependent upon current technology.
** On another point, I presented my research at the college tonight. Nothing much to say. I think it went well, not many students of mine were there even though I offered “extra credit”. I really thought more woud be there. There were about 30 people there, I saw 4-5 of my students, and others asked questions, so that went well.
Doctor Grandma 
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