With people scarce on the streets, and walks abbreviated, I took this more symbolic shot.

Spring has come. A fruit tree is in bloom. That is one way we humans express our existence in nature, by cultivating what grows in the wild and making it an object of beauty that stands by itself and expresses the beauty of natures constant regeneration.

Another way we humanize beauty is shown in the sign by the bodies that are both sexualized and highly estheticized. When I see the two next to each other, I realize they are both expressions of mankind’s effort to deal with the animal existence for our immortal souls, in a dense urban setting.

At one of the wealthiest locations in the US, people have to line up outside of a food store,

We have become rich, beyond historic imagination, and like all people grown rich and comfortable we have become fools. Religion is for the poor, we believe in Gaia and recycle -even though it is a foolish pastime. We have emptied the asylums and torn down skid rows and then lavished “compassion” from afar on the poor wretches who cannot navigate this world.

And here is one such soul scrounging for nickels, ripping used bottles and cans from the trash and spreading whatever germs they contain, because we never thought that the risks that plague all human kind could come looking for us, even when we offer them a comfortable home.

What kind of fools could have incentivized such behavior? Could have been so detached from ultimate reality? Could have inhabited our very mirrors?