PAST=PRESENT-NOW-THEN

Safety Dance

https://youtu.be/u-OXc_ltf_M

Unedited Story from a Prompt
(Wishful Thinking)
Late to the table as usual and after depositing myself and food offerings, I suggested to my friend that much of our current agonies arose from wanting, desperately wanting, our supposed 'Republic' to actually manifest at last, to rise out of the rubble of Pandemic destruction and begin the new age. She nodded obtusely and reached for one of the three-cheese toasted sandwiches I'd brought to share, as I poured out two cups of homemade cherry lemonade and passed hers across the six foot divide we'd arranged at one of the long tables provided by the park. An anarchist at heart, she'd never joined a political party, but voted as a sister independent in every election to date. Friends for decades, we had much in common, were both highly educated and never argued. We discuss, often passionately, but never as a contest of winners and losers. Ours is a rare companionship, blessedly fated to go the distance and in this time of terrible griefs, one for which I am deeply grateful.
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We met by chance well into our dotage, immediately and eagerly spending a decade of catch up and getting to know you sessions. Neither of us particularly needy and both of us open to truthful exchange, we shared homes, goods, useful information and personal histories. Now we are both locked down in this vast City suddenly deserted of it's usual commerce and clatter. We like it. Birds flourish, sing their many songs all day and the occasional fox wanders into view as casually as a domestic dog. The river runs nearby with its current traveling in both directions, up to the North country and Southward down to the ocean, seagulls circle above and a glorious sun is slowly descending, spreading ripples of purple, red and gold along the further shore. We fall into comfortable silence and our breathing becomes easy in the warm air of a fading day.

Past and Present Scenes

 

 

Safety Dance Repeats

https://youtu.be/u-OXc_ltf_M