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    Mad Wanderings of a Lost Mind
    Mad Wanderings of a Lost Mind
    Mad Wanderings of a Lost Mind
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    Mad Wanderings of a Lost Mind

    By Patrick Meservier

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    An autobiographical reflection against the curtain of real life. With Covid -19 pushing us all into quarantine I stew over the sanity we are forced to accept when told to stay at home against our will. Accessing current times against what may occur in the coming weeks or months, I brood over available protections from the virus and the consistent lack of leadership from the oval office. Self-deprecation over our state of the state and my fears of what may come, I provide humorous commentary about what may never come to pass.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPatrick Meservier
    Release dateMay 11, 2020
    ISBN9780463991930
    Mad Wanderings of a Lost Mind
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    Patrick Meservier

    I am an individual that loves to show my creative side. I started to painting many years ago but found my eyes to be dimming. I instead turned my inner eye towards the story telling part of me. There I found an inexhaustible amount of things I would like to turn into a unique and exciting story. Fiction is where I excel.I live in Maine where many other creative people have come to visit but never left. So many famous artists live here. I feel lucky to counted to be among them, other than the famous part just yet.I am currently working on an exciting new book series call Joan Darcy and the 27th Observer. The first is written and will be available soon. It is titled, The Telescope of Elsewhere. The second is in the process of penned and this book is called the In the Eye of the Beholder. Watch closely, new things are happening.

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      Mad Wanderings of a Lost Mind - Patrick Meservier

      Mad Wanderings

      Of a Lost Mind

      COVID-19 Quarantine

      And its Effects on Sanity

      By

      Patrick Meservier

      © Copyright Scribbleworks Publications

      (In conjunction with Smashwords Publishing)

      © Patrick Meservier

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      Edition

      1st 04-29-2020

      Distributed from the United States

      Available around the world

      I would like to thank a few people for the inspiration it took to write this book. The first is my wife. She is always ever supportive of my creative endeavors no matter how wild they eventually turn out to be. Let it be said that she may be the well spring and drive for me to stay so creative.

      My mother said something to me the other day that inserted an idea which stuck in my mind like a dandelion seed. This unknowing seed, blown on the breeze of a comment I’m sure she doesn’t remember telling me and I’m sure I don’t remember capturing in the moment, blossomed into the idea for this book one day in the shower. (Some of my best ideas come to life with nothing more to goad them except warm water and soap bubbles in my hair.)

      My sister should also be included in that she added to my recollection of a specific moment in the past. Without her contribution I could not fully explain a terrible moment in my past and its repercussions the day following.

      Lastly I would like to thank the maker for my ability to recall wonderful past memories from so long ago with tremendous clarity. It seems that very few people I have encountered in life retain old memories with the clarity that I can still do in my old age. I use it often to color my work for one’s youth is the eye of unbiased perspective. I think in these uncertain times we all need more unbiased perspective to keep us sane. Bless those who can still remember what that feels like.

      No matter how great the arrogance of man, quickly he is re-educated by nature’s lowest life forms.

      P.M.

      Forward;

      This is a work of nonfiction. It is light in context with some humor sprinkled in. Being closed up in a house with nowhere to go while we await the results of history being rewritten yet again I came to realize how none of us were designed to remain home unless it was by choice. Even though historically we now have the ability to communicate to all of our friends and family though technological means, nothing and I mean nothing can replace human contact. Face to face interaction is how we were created to stay sane. I felt I was pretty educated in both world and intellectual matters before this interruption called a pandemic hit us. Never once did I have to face this non face to face ability to live. It’s downright disturbing in every aspect of the word.

      I love being in our house and the life my wife and I put together here. I hope to retire and live out my days in peace and tranquility in this wonderful place I call home. After this mess I may have other thoughts. You see, I’m about ten years from retirement, more so now that my 401K has tanked so bad. Part of me wonders if I may ever be able to retire at all after this. At least I know what will happen if I stay home against my will. Perhaps working until the end of my days is exactly what I needed after all.

      Who knew a pandemic would be my wakeup call…

      The Beginning

      For historical purposes I will throw out some portion of a beginning because even a year from now what I am putting into words will carry less impact than it does today.

      December 2019, China

      A new virus strain erupts onto the disease scene from Wuhan, Hubei, China named SARS Cronovirus-2 or SARS-CoV-2 or Covid-19 for short. I, here in the United States, wasn’t worried in the least. Most of the other bad viruses that emanated from China were usually contained within that country’s boarders or had spread to the immediate countries nearby. The U.S. isn’t anywhere near China on a map. You can check it out for yourself. In fact if you laid our map of the continents over a smaller planet than ours, say like Mars, China would still be so far away that not even the most worrisome of those that live in our country would have anything to worry about.

      In the back of my mind I held the notion that I would only worry about this disease if it becomes as large as Bird Flu did which emanated from China years back. From my personal recollection Bird Flu did make it here. I knew that SARs came from there but again I was busy in life and I didn’t have the time to think about a virus that would peter out before it ever reached this country’s boarders or even me for that matter. I was locked away in woods of Maine. The news media warned that it had broad implications to cross boarders but heck it’s all news media hype, right? I was in the United States. Let me say that again, United States of America. Rural was the name of the game where I lived and that meant very little, if any, interaction with anyone from China.

      Christmas came and went. No one breathed a word about a big bad virus over meatballs and cheesecake, gift giving and family celebration.

      January blanketed us with the ever present winter we either all came to love or hate in this part of the country. No virus could ever make it here in the winter, regular flu sure, but a virus that came out of a warm country? Have I illustrated my ignorance about how flu’s work yet? Foolish me, I lived in the United States. Surely I have greater protections

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