Abstract
This piece was written in the spring of 2020, in the month after many parts of the nation and globe had effectively shut down in an effort to contain the proliferation of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. In my reflections I attempt to explore and make a kind of ecological, psychological, and spiritual sense of a virus so powerful as to irreversibly interrupt the rhythms of human civilization which, as an engine of our collective life drive, has evolved on so many levels in contradistinction to the life of this planet. This disruption of human activity is, in essence, a kind of “gift,” as only through mindful and compassionate attention to the human and nonhuman life in our environment will we glimpse the full significance of our coexistence with the otherness that sustains us.
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