What We Don’t Know, Week 45 in the Time of Coronavirus

I have to admit that I wasn’t sure that the judge I watched numerous times on Law and Order was Fran Lebowitz. It looked like her, but was she a doppelganger, or was she, in fact, the writer? After watching “Pretend it’s a City,” Martin Scorsese’s excellent (in my opinion) docu-series of Fran Lebowitz, I was happy to learn that, yes, it was her as Judge Janice Goldberg in the original Law & Order.

The short series on Netflix was a delightful, laughter-filled escape from current events this past week. I learned a lot, evaluated my own thinking, and admired FL’s ability to speak her personal truths, thoughts I often have, but don’t share aloud. Somehow the cable show also had me pondering on the wonder of all I don’t know. I’m not even sure how I arrived at that thought trend, but once there, my mind wandered endlessly to all that is yet to be explored. I’m not speaking of subjects that vaguely interest me, but not enough to occupy my time, like physics or economics. I’ll leave that to the experts. Then I’ll simply read their selective theories. I’m more thinking about what curiosities I can discover in a day, or in a new place, or with those who think differently than myself. Am I…