the oil companies decline. the pandemic brings some benefit to earth with the deficits to human industry. 
i was up all the exploding night. it started before juneteenth and i wonder how long it can last. do people have that much to spend on explosives? will the supply chain hold out? 
my bike flywheel seized up and jay said i better order two because they're shifting manufacturing to standardized bikes and the specialized factories to electronics. so i'll have two flywheels to ride the rest of my life, or til i'm 80 if i survive.
i like the new liberry book thresholds by rob doyle. the review i read didn't indicate what i'm reading but did indicate i should try it. a smart welcome fellow.  
we saw the woman who loved giraffes. she was the first person to study any wild animal but she could get nowhere in sexist academia so became a generalist autodidact and human rights activist and eventually was uplifted by the other people who love giraffes and recognized from her book fifty years ago as the best most knowledgeable lover of giraffes. 
hallowed academic institutions decline, hollowed.
it's not as if humans will stop exploiting other humans and the earth as resources for power, hate and love of profit, but everything is changing.
i slept in til after 8 am. i wonder how many were injured in the explosions last night. how many shot.
they say the virus is growing exponentially yet fewer are dying. we don't understand what's going on or know what's true. things are deadly, that we know for sure. we have to listen to our own hearts beating the rhythm we ignored for so long, the internal beat of life loving instinct, not the beat of civilization.