Jazz A Pandemic Journal, Of Sorts

An Ethical Crisis As Well As a Health Crisis

We’re in an ethical crisis as much as a health crisis. The pandemic is a massive health crisis emerging from an ongoing climate/environmental crisis, leading to a world economic crisis, and resulting in a global humanitarian crisis. The pandemic highlights the ethical conflicts that have led to all of these crises. We, as individuals and … Continue reading An Ethical Crisis As Well As a Health Crisis

Jazz A Pandemic Journal, Of Sorts

Worst-Case Scenario: Reflections on Survival

I have always had an aversion to the once-popular game, Worst Case Scenario because it “challenges players to use their survival instincts and skills to outlast their opponents” and to video games that pit players against each other in a battle to survive all sorts of threatening situations. I dislike games like this partly because … Continue reading Worst-Case Scenario: Reflections on Survival

Jazz A Pandemic Journal, Of Sorts, Essays

On Suffering and the Fear of Death

The pandemic has spun my ongoing existential crisis into a force 5 hurricane. I’m practicing mindfulness to cope. The practice offers me many moments of calm in the storm, but I possess an overly busy brain, and I’ve continued grappling with big issues of human experience—suffering, death, love, and meaning—and I spin out into the … Continue reading On Suffering and the Fear of Death