SO beautifully written! Thank you !
So much love being sent to you. No guilt. You are doing what you can. Someone will be inspired as you lead by example.
I wonder what is going to happen in the fall. I am in college online this year because of COVID-19. Most of the classes at my college are online.
For K-12 students, many parents want the kids back in school because they cannot do the online coursework for them.
@journeywithme2 I feel your pain. I have close family members in Atlanta and they describe exactly what you are telling us. Although they are mixed politically, they have understood that they are at grave risk under the current circumstances. They decry the lack of leadership by the governor and the politicization of mask wearing and are fearful for their survival under current circumstances. I really feel like the governor and his cronies have knowingly broken their oaths as leaders to protect their people - all in the name of pleasing someone who cares nothing for the well-being of people he is supposed to be serving. I can only pray that the people will remember this at the ballot box and that those in power are sent a clear message that this is not the right way to treat the people you were elected to serve.
Please know that I am sending you light and comfort. I am thinking of all of you daily.
I did this crazy thing. While out running errands, i stopped and picked up a hitchhiker. That wasn't the crazy part. The crazy was that i totally forgot about Covid-45. We weren't wearing masks (i wasn't planning on seeing anyone , or going inside any buildings- but there was one in the car). We were just laughing and joking, and rocking out to the radio. It felt really good. When she got to the door of the homeless shelter where she was going, she turned around to wave goodbye. And then she put on her mask. Oh, snap! Masks!
For a few minutes, i had slipped back into my old life, the one where i was free to meet new people, to hug strangers. And even though those behaviors may have held some risks, they didn't generally include the possibility of dying just because someone breathed near me. Fortunately, the car AC had broken down the day before, so i did have all the windows rolled down.
But it pisses me off, to have to think that way. I was already resentful of American culture being so frigid, and stingy with its affections . And that was *before* Covid-45 hit. In fact, i had been doing this practice, for years, where i would try to meet at least one new person every single day. At first, it was very difficult to not be shy and awkward, but eventually it became easy, the best part of my day. I don't know how many people i have met that way, but some are still friends, years later. There were only a few i wish i hadn't met.
I am that weird human who likes shaking hands, giving hugs, and standing too close. It sucks that those kinds of things are crazier than hitchhiking, now.
Thank you all... for the support and understanding....to have it is priceless in this sea of QAnon, nobody makes me wear a mask,he's taking down the sex traffickers, he's fighting for us good ole boy mentality.
Baba I agree they have. The actual temerity of Kemp to take Bottoms to court was entirely because she told Trump to wear a mask (Oh the nerve of that woman and a black one at that they gasped) when he came to see Hapeville while people STILL aren't able to get tested and NOT enough PPE's and reopening too soon was beyond insanity. We see where it got us today...number one in the US with new infections!!! GRRRRRR. There are many of us who do see it? But there are more of those that refuse to see it. At this point my only interaction other than Face time with family and texting family.. is with social media. When I see friends and family spreading misinformation... I quietly and calmly refute it with numerous reliable documents and reports. I share Heather Cox Richardson's missives as well as the Lincoln Projects ads. It's better than sitting here alone in silence and saying nothing tho I do have to take breaks away the ignorance and hatred is so overwhelming sometimes. How people tolerate and applaud that loathsome creature as he spouts how God has chosen him and is testing him (huge eye roll) and that Q Anon likes him and more... I weep with laughter and pain at the absurdity of it. So I am very grateful to be able to talk about my feelings and thoughts here with "my community"
and Unk p ? I understand that longing... I have always been a hugger too... my poor cats and dogs are the recipients of more than their fair share these days!!!! To have to stand and "air hug" is a hard thing to do. When my son and partner stop by... and we are masked and more than six feet apart..OUTSIDE ...and he and she both work still.....its difficult to not give them big hugs. I think the hardest thing Covdi-19 has taken from us is our ability to spread love,comfort,support and more from our hugs and the loss of touching - which is vital to human health . https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323143#Why-touch-is-so-important
So from one hugger to another Unk P I am sending you a big one!!
@journeywithme2 I agree with you and UnkP. Not being able to hug my grandchildren and bury my face in their hair is the most heartbreaking feeling. Especially because the little ones reach out their arms and we can’t hug them back. They don’t understand. I know that so many others are suffering heartbreak greater than mine, and I pray for everyone’s safety and struggle. I have to believe that we will overcome and get through this. My prayer is that we come out kinder, gentler and more appreciative of our gifts and blessings.
This has been the only part of almost 7 months of complete isolation and now only recently seeing them from a far.
Heartbreaking to loving grandparents everywhere. We are big huggers and now we throw "arms in a circle " hugs and blow kisses.
My grandson age 4 asks his parents over and over when will this be over and we can hug them and play in their house again?
I passed on a bunch of hand me down (scrubbed thoroughly) from my attic Clean-out so he knows i probably have more IN my house. Yep ☺ i sure do.
@febbby23 and @michele-b
If we can get an accurate enough FAST ( like instant) Covid test, imagine all the hugs that could happen. I have heard they are working on getting a better one than the WH uses which would be a big help in containing an outbreak.
Hope that happens soon.
@lovendures I was saying the other night, we just need a little something.....a spark...to help us get to the end zone here. Maybe this is it! I pray so.