小兔子的家：The Bunny's Home

#2021-0529

This morning when Jean and I took a walk on the mountain slope, we noticed that the dry spell had made the hillside look brown, and that the stair-like footpath leading to the "Bunny's Home" had been closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Oh, the drought and the pandemic must have been frightening to most of us! -- But thinking of the Bunny's Home, both my wife and I would smile again, because it is a very creative name that our grandchildren had given to the wooden structure up there that looks like a pavilion. (See the first 4 pictures below, as well as the top-right one.)

祖孫分住台中、台北。在疫情嚴重期間，若非有「視訊」的科技可用，無論心中有多少思念，都難以見面。而今日，身為爺爺奶奶的，走在山腰間，發現通往「小兔子的家」那條步道（如圖）已被封閉。顯然是為了防疫的理由：狹窄的階梯式步道，遊客「擦身而過」時，很難保持所謂「社交距離」。

註：「社交距離」即 social distancing；不過，有外文文章認為，應稱作 physical distancing 才合適，也才正確，因為人 (humans) 本質上就是群居的，社會性的生物 (social beings)。