Throughout the course of the week, I run across so many good articles that I share with my family, and then save to share here. We're all in this together, right?
Why you're doing less but sleeping more during the coronavirus pandemic
Is Miami buying more booze during coronavirus quarantine? We have the receipts
‘I Just Need the Comfort’: Processed Foods Make a Pandemic Comeback
Love in the Time of Corona: A Social Distancing Art Exhibition
Brandi Carlile Pays Tribute to John Prine With ‘Hello in There’ on ‘Colbert’ (thanks, RobbyG!)
Oh, remember those earrings I bought a few weeks ago, in my one-time weakness to retail therapy? I am wearing them every day, because they make me feel joy, and as a reminder that we will experience normalcy again... :-)
As we enter another week of lockdown, it’s hard to remember what day it is around here. But no matter, as long as we #staythefuckhome, we have songs to play…we really don’t need much, do we?
Home means everything to me. And never more than it has in these strange days we are now inhabiting. Today I saw the lilac bushes blooming, while the daffodils are nearly done and the peony shoots are coming up ... the cycle of life continues as spring brings us its bounty, reminding us that this world is still beautiful.
Nature stays mighty, and so do we.
SONG: Don't Need Much to Be Happy by Mary Chapin Carpenter
BOOK: HumanKind: Changing the World One Small Act At a Time by Brad Aronson
POEM: Pandemania by Daniel Halpern
There are fewer introductions
In plague years,
Hands held back, jocularity
No longer bellicose,
Even among men.
Breathing’s generally wary,
Labored, as they say, when
The end is at hand.
But this is the everyday intake
Of the imperceptible life force,
Willed now, slow —
Well, just cautious
In inhabited air.
As for ongoing dialogue,
No longer an exuberant plosive
To make a point,
But a new squirreling of air space,
A new sense of boundary.
Genghis Khan said the hand
Is the first thing one man gives
To another. Not in this war.
A gesture of limited distance
Now suffices, a nod,
A minor smile or a hand
Slightly raised,
Not in search of its counterpart,
Just a warning within
The acknowledgment to stand back.
Each beautiful stranger a barbarian
Breathing on the other side of the gate.
QUOTE: "Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to." ~ Greg Anderson
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