About this blog

Dear Reader, 

Please be indulgent toward my blog, for it is born out of the COVID-19 pandemic blues. After six months of lockdown, I am feeling lost, and life is losing its meaning. One progresses from hoping the pandemic will run its course within few months to a settled anxiety. 

 One can only try to imagine what inmates of Nazi concentration camps or people hiding in bunkers during the World Wars would have gone through. We have the testimonies of Anne Frank and of Viktor Frankl in Man's Search for Meaning. 

So here it is, my own diary of thoughts that I offer up to an uncaring world. Writing calms me, and when words take flight unbidden, I feel joy. 

Maybe a wanderer on the WWW will stumble across this blog, and feel a connection, and find some solace or hope.

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