I have loved reading this thread and seeing how everyone is doing. I don't often feel like I have anything to offer so don't post much, but getting to "know" you all through what you share feels personal. Sending love and energy and health and patience to you all as we get through this, especially those of you in areas that are most affected right now.
We are doing remarkably well, so far. My son has been home from college for two weeks, and just got notice that he needs to move out of his dorm next week. Our governor just ordered shelter in place yesterday, so hopefully travel out of state to pack up my kid won't be a problem.
We are all introverts around here, so this has not been a hardship ... yet. My son would very much like to see his girlfriend, so as soon as he has his sneakers back (still at school), they are going to start running trails together ... on the very strict instructions to stay 6' apart and no making out. He has been playing a lot of online games with his buddies, and online classes started for him on Monday, so he has that to do. My daughter is focusing on art and playing with her cat, so she's happy. My husband is technically on PTO this week ... we were supposed to be in Seattle for spring break. It's odd, when you get little reminders of real life.
We made the kids join us for a walk yesterday, and spent more than an hour just walking, talking, laughing. I've grown to hate the word "blessed" as it gets thrown around way too casually, but that's truly all I feel right now. These kids are home, they get what's going on and haven't complained or pushed back in any way. My son is two years away from graduating and moving on with his life so while this is definitely NOT the way he wanted his year to go, I'm grateful for this pause in time to just be together. My heart breaks to think of families stuck together to don't get along ... marriages that are unhappy or, worse, abusive ... siblings who hate each other or defy their parents ... I can't imagine being trapped in that sort of energy through this.
I have no sewing skills, so while I can't make masks, I have friends who do, and I've begun collecting them and sending them to a friend whose daughter is a nurse and is begging for masks. The parts of the country currently getting slammed are never far from my thoughts, and I will gladly keep sheltering in place if it means I help give my state a fighting chance. It feels small, but to the people fighting on the front lines of this, it's huge.
Thank you. Really appreciate it.
Now for some humor:
* A plane with 5 passengers on board -- Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Angela Merkel, the Pope and a 10-year-old schoolgirl -- is about to crash and there are only 4 parachutes. Trump says "I need one. I’m the smartest man in the USA and I'm needed to solve the pandemic!" He takes one parachute and jumps. Johnson says‘I’m needed to sort out the COVID-19 mess in Britain’. He takes one and jumps. The Pope says, "The world's Catholics depend on me for comfort in a time of fear." He takes one and jumps. "You can have the last parachute," Merkel says to the 10-year-old. "I've lived my life. Yours is only just starting." The little girl replies: "Don’t worry, there are 2 parachutes left, the smartest man in the USA just took my school bag."
@bluebelle Thanks for checking on those of us who haven’t checked in here! It is kind of you to think of us. When I woke in the middle of the night and saw this, I had a cat sitting on my head (who thought it was breakfast time) so I decided to wait to respond until I was awake and could clearly formulate an answer.
@lovendures I think the article you posted is very valuable and relevant at the current moment. Thank you for posting it.As some of you know, I live in Germany. We have been completely at home for almost two weeks now and are fine. There is some economic uncertainty for us if this lasts for more than the next few weeks, but at least there is a healthy safety net and the government is on track to motivate employers to keep their employees on and at least pay them a reduced amount temporarily. My husband is working from home and I have a couple of young adult children at home and we actually are bonding over what is going on and look out for each other while also trying to give each other space to go about our individual activities. Generally, I feel fine and try to keep a regular schedule and work in some kind of physical activity every day to reduce stress levels. We are still able to take walks as long as we aren’t in groups of more than 2 people. I live outside the city and near a lot of nature trails, which makes taking walks pleasant. Mostly I worry for family that isn’t with us in the US and Australia and try to keep in regular touch to make sure they are ok. I still have to go shopping for food here since Germany isn’t as well set up for online grocery shopping as some places. I go once a week and find that more emotionally stressful than I would have thought. I know that it is a risk of exposure to us each time I do our shopping. That being said, we have worked out how to minimize that risk and get the job done.
The one funny thing that I have learned since the beginning of this process, is that German people all have decided that being stuck at home for an extended period means that it is time to clean out your basement. I have now heard this countless times from friends and family here. Germany is going to have some seriously clean basements by the end of the pandemic!I’m sending light and healing to all of you every day during my meditations. I know there are some rough times ahead. Knowing that we are all in this together will help us to get through it. Take care of yourselves and be kind to yourselves and one another.
For anyone who works with energy or chakra cleaning, our bodies are like a house. The house is our earthly residence for our earthly spirit. The basement is the root chakra or energetic healing center that represents our connection to family,our past and genetic dna.
When we work on cleansing and healing or energetic root chakras or the "basement " of our house/homes we getting rid of the old or past things or junk--all the old past passed on energies or old memories that we hang on to and store that no longer serve us.
For many Germans it seems that a lot of this might be connected to WWII and all of those painful energies of all, for all of horrific times in the collective unconscious. May all that be a great healing for all of you and your entire nation and all those continuing to carry the genetic trauma.
And if not that consciously at least-- you are going to have such nice and clean basements ???
@lawrence, LOL! Thanks for that -- we need the lightness right now.
You'll probably think I'm nuts -- hell, we're probably all 1/2 nuts by now -- but when I read your joke and the schoolgirl's response, I heard her speaking in the voice of Jimmy Durante. Not sure if I was channeling him, or it's because I just watched one of my favorite movies, "The Man Who Came to Dinner" ...
@bluebelle Hi! I am still alive and kicking. I've taken a vacay from the site while doing some spiritual healing. Their is a price to be paid for psychic work if one's energies are not clear. Think of it as chakra balancing to get out the water hammer in the pipes.
Sounds mystical, doesn't it? Hah. Chop wood, carry water.
As for our current situation, we are guided. This is a necessary unfolding. We're all part of the same living planet, which has it's own rationale not so easily comprehendable by us. Cast your nets wide to see it.
Trump is like a medical agonist, stirring a necessary reaction in the body politic. In the end, as a species we will be innoculated against selfishness and greed.
On an individual level--not so enjoyable. But we are a congregate species, a kind of hive-mind. This agonist causes us to grow the connections to come to full consciousness.
Hope that helps. Blessings to all. -R-
@lawrence, why does that not surprise me? You're a man of many talents! ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lZSwZPnCHY
OMG I laughed so loud my boss and my husband were wondering what was wrong with me I forgot I was still on an open line/webex at work LOL
Now my boss wants me to share with him what made me laugh like a nut LOL - thanks for the joke I really needed it!
Glad you saw/heard/felt the calling out.
This is so true and very common. If you're not clear, in a good place yourself, its not a good idea to try to do healing, send off energetic waves to another. CAN WIPE YOU OUT! And sometimes we aren't aware of just how much energy you carry or can use for others when the Great Mother/Father/Child Universe is showing you to focus on healing yourself in order to be part of healing All.
Blessed Be to you Runestone. We are in your circle now, calling out and sheltering you with healing love and care. Thank you for popping in ?