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Hello Hong Kong, Belgium, and France.  Thank you for the support over the last two months!! I reflected on whether or not to post this entry and decided perhaps it will help us--you my readers and me, to get a grasp on our lives, in retrospect, before the epidemic turned into the present COVID 19 Pandemic, before our lives in the United States of America became so disrupted and convoluted.       Delores Fisher aboard public transit in San Diego: This really became the new normal . . .       Empty streets and almost empty buses except for first responders traveling in silence to and        from work and others who used the buses to go shopping, or conduct personal business. Olga Gutierrez Garcia called me in February and asked if I wanted to go to a poetry reading. She knew I had been ill again and that going to listen to other poets usually gave me strength. San Diego has a unique poetry community with almost every poetry style represented in a variety of open mics around