Yesterday , I stumbled upon Kermit the Frog and Steve Martin in their swampy rendition of Dueling Banjos. Playing it awarded me a moment of blissful rest from the torrent of negative Covid-19 news , as the music, forest and humor respite from another day of isolation. Today, I read in the New York Times that Eric Weissberg, who played the banjo in the soundtrack of the duel in the movie Deliverance, passed away. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/arts/music/eric-weissberg-dies.htm It is a tune that is embedded in my mind. There is another sync here as well: Yesterday I was speaking with my 81 year old mother, who is in Covid-19 lock-down with my 87 year old father in their apartment in a senior living facility. Dad has serious cognitive challenges and asked my mother when he woke up "Am I alive?" Mom assured him that he was. Dad was dubious and asked again, and again, and then "How do you know?" unwilling to accept her con...