Zu Among COVID-19
I never really understood the expression take care. Really, I had no idea what people were trying to convey—that I shouldn’t take risk or put myself in tense and challenging situations? This pandemic has changed me, and most of us, several generations can now more fully understand and sincerely convey a heartfelt take care.
I am struggling to write something interesting for fear of being tone insensitive or even deaf. Yes, Zu remains operational but dealing with this virus has really disrupted our systems. No, I am not complaining, just relaying how life at Zu has changed—we are now a family of isolated individuals, each with very clear and distinct boundaries, with very little life outside work and sleep. We care about each other, we care about those that live with the audio gear we design and build, and we care about you and your life. While I am tempted to put down some gloriously sad words of wisdom about the essential nature of music and expression…. No! No! No! (it was a powerful moment in Young Pope/New Pope) …To my hubris, and to those that choose to pry on the vulnerable, to the greed-heads, to those that choose ignorance and inaction, and to those positioning for power over others.
We are all moving through this strange landscape of anxious, brooding fear together. We are loosing loved ones, jobs, interests, liberties…. Yes, we must help each other yet we should not do unto others what we do not want done to us.
Julian Cope Kolly Kibber’s Birthday has been playing in my head, because I didn’t really get the setup until now.
My life is a delicate balance
The distance between town A and town B
Fighting experience and willful ignorance
Smiling at such naïveté
Weak and emotional
It drains the soul
Welcomes you into town
Tears down your strategy
It blocks your road
Pumps blood where no blood should be
And as the fog gets clearer
Shadows in your eyes appear
The weak gets strong and nearer
And condensation tears are brushed away
There is more to this song, the turn is Orwellian—phrasing and ideas we will be facing as we emerge from this. So let’s save it for then, and for now let us all take care.