MY MASH MELLOW BRAIN
Since the beginning of the year, I have been devoid of intellectual concentration, lost in inconsequential pursuits with nothing meaningful to report at the end of each day. Regaining my intellectual vigor seems insuperable and this state of affairs worries me a lot. One marker of this cerebral meltdown is my dwindling blog production. Every year on average I post one blog a month. My blogs were never intended to be brainy compositions; they nonetheless require a modicum of imagination and resolve and these two abilities are currently in short supply. This “mash mellowzation” process started in March 2020 when the Coronavirus crashed into our lives. Since then, l have been guzzling pandemic information like a drug addict. Unable to travel and meet friends, I flooded their inboxes with the results of my obsessive research on the virus’ behavior and people’s efforts to protect themselves. The worse of the pandemic seem...