cute things

China: we built multiple hospitals in just a couple of days, now have more cured cases than active cases, and our response has been praised by the World Health Organization

Cuba: we invented the medicine being used to fight coronavirus in like a week, have tons of testing kits on standby and have been giving them to other countries, and that damn virus won't even dare show its face in our country

Vietnam: we've isolated sick neighborhoods and made sure everyone who might be infected has free healthcare, housing, and food while they're in quarantine. Our response has been praised by the WHO. We also invented our own testing kits.

I am demonstrably sad, and lonely, and full of fear. But there are other people who will hold my hand, who will point out the hawk overhead, who will give you That Look in a public place. The other day at a coffee shop a child said "look! It's snowing!" so all of us strangers went to go look out the windows. It wasn't the first snow and it won't be the last but wasn't it lovely, like that?

How wonderful to live in a world where birds and frogs both say beep! How wonderful to have an ocean of beautiful sharks with their dinosaur teeth! How wonderful the moon and her changing face, how wonderful the bees and their dancing to communicate, how wonderful shrimp and their forbidden layers of vision! How wonderful, you, and what you will give the world! The way we love things enough to spend entire blogs devoted to them? How people will let me explain my Pokemon team to them? How we will both jump at the scare in the movie, how we laugh so loudly, how it feels to give someone your baking? How wonderful to be alive. I am sorry for forgetting.