I haven’t been as productive as I hoped during this period of social distancing. However I had one idea which is  fun and hopefully will brighten someones day.

I came up with the idea of creating short videos which I was going to call “At Home with John”. It would mostly be a tour of what is growing in the garden and anything else that crossed my mind. 

One episode caught the attention of my son. However before I share it, I need to explain something about my children. I am blessed that my children share my sense of humor and they are capable of making me laugh in all circumstances. It is a gift which I treasure. Here is the video. I’ll share my son’s comments after.

https://youtu.be/jFq_qeTq9ME

My son mentioned that this video looked like something you  would see in a dystopian science fiction  movie. The world is in chaos. A  global Pandemic is killing thousands, fires in the streets of the cities, a madman running the government, environmental degradation,  murder hornets and a super volcano in Yellowstone.

However one lone figure points out flowering azaleas and the sound of tree toads.

The movie my son might be describing is the Silent Running which was release in 1972. In the film Freeman Cornell (Bruce Dern) tends to gardens aboard a spacecraft. The earth is polluted beyond hope and the ship has been sent to space with biospheres containing what is left of plant and animal life. When the crew is given orders to jettison the  biospheres to make way for commerce, Dern goes rogue and kills the other crewmen.

No one does crazy as well as Bruce Dern. I can relate a bit, I really hate to think of what we do daily to our earth. Funny that my video is a paean to the natural world, but that is what it is. The sounds of the tree frogs, blossoms, growing plants, it is all so perfect.

I’ll be making more videos of course. This is all meant to be fun. But, fun with a message.