Pandemically Speaking …

I’m thinking of a pandemically-inspired career change – something practical and useful.

It’s those crazy millennials. While I’ve been running around hyperventilating over whether I can get my new video done or not, my nephews and nieces have been working away on the frontline, stacking shelves and manning tills at Coles and Woolies, keeping the good stuff flowing at KFC – even packing medical supplies. There’s another in the Army – and my own son fighting the good fight in uni education. I have a cousin of the same age working in an HIV hospice in Washington and another literally organizing to have unfairly incarcerated prisoners in New York released. They’re all doing their bit. Somehow, as a songwriter, I don’t think I’ll be rewriting the rule book on usefulness anytime soon, but I AM thinking of ways I can make up for it. And really, this time I KNOW I’m on the right track. 

I’m going to become … a Post-Apocalyptic Party Planner!!!!

Can you imagine the celebration when this is all over – when we’re all out of lockdown and rushing into each other’s arms, God forbid, for illegal HUGS? Even better, there will be SO much time to plan … in fact, that’s exactly how we should be treating this whole social distancing drama … as serious party preparation. Think of it like this. We’re not in isolation – we’re simply getting ready for the biggest, funnest get-together and reunion, literally, of ALL TIME … Seven billion of us (minus that one guy in Antarctica – but hey in the spirit of togetherness let’s ask him anyway!!). We’re just not sure of exactly when that will be of course – so, even better, it will be like one BIG surprise party. AND we’re throwing it for ourselves!! How good is that? And how fiendishly clever? 

End of WW2 parties move over!! Actually, we could kick-start the global economy with this Preparation for the Big Celebration idea alone …. any suggestions?? 

April 9, 2020