We are one! We are many! We are one world fighting together! Well, it has been a while since life has afforded this author the time to actually stop and catch my breath... though 'taking a breath' in 2020 holds new meaning.
The Coronavirus has caused so many changes to the world as we knew it just six months ago. To write a novel with the scenarios set in the reality of today was never something I had ever contemplated as a writer. Some times the stillness of night is so silent, so breathless, that it is as if the Earth itself is gasping with the loss of lives.
In the far off distance, the flapping of useless words lifting from world newspapers is a constant source of ineffective solutions while scientists scramble to develop a vaccine to send the virus into submission. The heartache is unbearable for many... the fight from the frontlines is constant and as deadly as any World War waged.
Published books have rolled through printing presses since 2006 - "It's a Wonderful Life", "Skadoo" (Fires that blaze so fiercely that nothing but white ash remains), "Time & Tide". Did they hold any clues as to the devastation to be unleashed in 2020? If they did, whispers rustling through the leaves on tall gum trees went unheard. Even the oceans sweeping to shores with the deadly virus remained silent. The economy would also slowly fade into the depths of despair. But we are Australians! We fight to rise above adversity, while our Scientists fight to produce a vaccine before the second wave hits this country.
We will learn many lessons in 2020, to pass onto future generations. What we have been shown is, there is far more selfless good in the world than there is mindless stupidity.
