indeterminate mind

 “I totally forgot about that, yeah we have come along way from the miscreants we used to be.” John replied. John enjoyed seeing his old high school friend and normally would love to sit and chat, but John had a lot on his mind. “Good to talk Bob, I’ll see you when I come back through.” “Not unless it’s within the hour, my shift is ending.” Bob said John did not hear the last comment; his mind was already thinking about the task at hand. He knew very little about the family Bishop Jerry had asked him to assist.  He knew that the Father had passed away a month earlier, he was one of the first deaths, in the area, during this second more severe wave of the pandemic.  And the mother had been admitted to the hospital two weeks earlier, her condition was critical.  The children had remained in state supported quarantine at their home for the last two weeks.  But now they were cleared to go, Jerry asked if I could take them into my home until the mother recovered or one of their extended fam