Fate walks with death when threats to our existence exists.

Oh pandemic, why remind me of my fear of homelessness?

Why anxiety rips at my substance:  mind, body and soul.

How dare society or any individual face fear so squarely in these horrific moments of unknown quantity.

If my brief anxiety should disengage me from my ‘courage to be’, it is just a feeling from which my loved ones give support during the good and bad times.

Yet, this brief encounter may help me see what richness lies in awareness, courage, being, confrontation with that which negates life.

Carl Jung says you have a choice.

You can use psychology, religion, or philosophy.

That symbols hold the truth,

You can’t eradicate free will,

‘To do no harm’, learn to heal using philosophy.