Today at this time I would usually be in Powder Horn Park storing music gear for my bands that would perform about 5-6pm while drinking coffee from the Mayday Cafe. I would also be setting up for the 330pm Ceremony extravaganza next to the lake on the west side of the park. With the giant puppets the Sun, The Woods, The Prairie, The Sky and the River. Next checking in with my van in the parking lot then scurry off to the Parade Site at 25th & Bloomington with snare & harness on hand readying for the noon start of the Parade with Your Community Band.  However this is the year of COVID-19 so this event will not happen in its splendid, glorious, spectacle of our Community Gathering Celebrating Our World in commonality and struggle against the odds of  Politics, Pollution, Inequality, Racism and all the challenges that bring us together in unity to declare our love of Humanity, Mother Earth and the Beauty of Our Living Beings. This morning there are over 6,000 cases of the virus and almost 400 deaths. So Stay at Home and when your out and about wear a mask and gloves when necessary.

We will celebrate another day in another very changed and altered World.