that looks delicious! I've always loved curry and your use of my favourite spice (smoked paprika) is something I can definitely vibe with. The mask thing is no doubt an annoyance. When I worked with the general public the main benefit of eating curry the night before was I could let my breath be antisocial for me so I didn't have to be. Now with the mask it backfires every time, and I realise.. Bloody hell! My breath could sheer sheep! lol. I've worked in roles in my life where wearing PPE or NBC equipment made sense due to the environment, but it still feels so deeply deeply odd to have to wear one in public places like a bloody grocery store. There is certainly a deep strangeness to where we are at in our current cycle... well if one were to view things on a cycle model which I do. Vast swaths of the world being placed on house arrest, controls on human interactions, a loss of interconnection enforced by the mechanisms of the state... If one subscribed to a Gnostic world view then this would be what an Archon looks like when it stamps it foot and tantrums at the immovable light present in all human beings. I don't fully subscribe to that world view btw, but like with all world views I see it's value when observing things around me. I'm not someone who denies there's something to covid. I know to many clinical professionals that I deeply respect who are dealing with it day to day and describe it as a deeply unusual disease. But it does seem to be being used to hit a dimmer switch down to low on the world.. So yeah you're spot on at feeling anxiety. We all should. If that anxiety leads to despair then we take stock and accept despair as part of the problem solving process we must endure which tends to defang it. It strips its harmful potency down and forces it to become part of what we need to form solves for the dilemma we may be facing in the first place.But having said all that.. I have a sneaky suspicion that there's a continuity to all of us that is far older than the containers we inhabit. I have a further suspicion that the worse that could happen if all of us died tomorrow is that the tunnel may be a little crowded. Again it's an odd suspicion doing what suspicions normally don't do when I have it which is it provides a little comfort as the world descends into ubiquitous schizophrenia. It's also a suspicion that makes simple things like standing and having a conversation with friends feel so much more special. The special aspect was always present.. but the current situation highlights it even more. There's value and gems in these hard times me thinks. Thanks for your post from the delicious looking food to the conveyance of life down your way. It's lovely rewarding content as always @riverflows. :)