in vacant or in pensive mood

Just wondering that this is probably the best time for voodoo to collaborate with acupuncture to enable easy globally accessible social distancing safe treatment ever :) 

When I struck by nature’s light Everything enchanted me Be it a moonlit summer’s night Or a naked poplar tree. I saw an ant that worked all day On the dirty dusty sod, Spend some precious time to pray To the invisible God!

Dear Kobe, Like many others, i came to know of the news on my way back from Pondy to Bangalore. The journey was bad, the news made it worse. I reached home at 430 and was consuming the news and processing it all. For an hour, i was in disbelief. I was hoping for a scam report and your magical emergence. Then,  the stage of disbelief left and i swallowed the reality and tossed and turned for hours instead of catching some sleep. I was in a shocked stage and for the first time in my life, was i having a lump in my throat in telling a colleague about your sudden demise and accident.  I never felt that with anyone else.  The loss of my mother is the only other death that tears me up. Yours was second. Frankly,  i didn't know you well enough growing up. I was a huge MJ fan as any pre 90's kid. I understood his airness only later on,  but the naive and heartfelt admiration existed even then. I fell in love with sports but more focused in basketball a little later in my school

This pandemic we are living in is making me question many things. While the more pressing ones are our behaviour around basic health and hygiene, the more concerning ones are our ability to open wallets safely and get back to the normal we once lived. We are washing our hands more, leaving the tap on for longer i'm sure. But it made me look back at an old dettol ad that made me realise that Bunty wasn't dumb, nor was his soap slow. He was doing it right all along. 10 seconds of handwash isn't too long. We just feel the need to rush in and out of our dining table to do more timepass, nothing very earth shattering that couldn't make us clean our hands for a tad longer.  In the ad, we see Bunty cleaning his hands saying " dhote jao dhote jao" and whilst he is washing, many of his colleagues finish washing their hands. His friend who sees him doing this asks him if his soap is slow that he is having to wash his hands for so long.  It's funny that we were all t