I wish I had been writing here daily about my own impressions, adventures, and thoughts in this Time of the Plague. Not that I have anything definitive to add to the conversation, but nevertheless, it would be good to have a record.
A record of March 15th, the last time we went to church before everything shut down. Our children didn’t want us to go, but we observed social distancing and worshipped together with our church community at Trinity Fellowship in Friendswood. I’m glad we did.
A record of the day, about March 16th or sometime that week, when I put out the free books for people to take and enjoy. Unfortunately, I’ve had only a few takers.
There’s a record on Facebook of the music my son and daughter-in-law shared with us, but it doesn’t transfer to this blog where I control the content.
And the poems I shared and the helpful or funny memes are all on Facebook. I’d rather have them here.
As a family we started out Zooming, then switched to Google Hangouts, and now we’re mostly leaving each other video messages on Marco Polo. I like the Marco Polo messages the best. Video plus convenience.
The feelings have gone from peace to frustration to claustrophobia to resignation to joy and thankfulness that we are all healthy and able to keep in touch via phones and computers and even snail mail.
My eight adult children are all home, socially distancing. Some of them have lost their jobs entirely. Others are furloughed indefinitely. One is working from home, and another is going in to work at the clothing store she manages, filling mail orders.
The three youngest are here with us, and the young people do all of the necessary errands. They don’t want me or Engineer Husband to leave the house. Said Husband misses his almost-daily trips to Home Depot. I miss people coming over to borrow books from my library, but I am still lending. Porch pick-up.
We’ve completed one and a half jigsaw puzzles. My youngest is working on an embroidery kit. The next youngest has been painting every day: pictures, bookmarks, and other lovely artwork. You can see some of her work at her instagram account, @analemmacreations.
Today we mark the beginning of the second half of April. It’s already been a long month. But again, we are healthy and solvent. Praise the Lord.
Thanks for posting. it is good to hear how others are doing. Your daughter’s art is fantastic!
It’s still hard for me to believe that life is so different now from life as we knew it only two months ago. I suppose that we are living through one of history’s main events right now even though most of us still don’t realize it. Something that effectively shuts down most of the world at the same time just has to be fodder for the history books of the future. I suspect that Covid-19 will change our lives forever in ways that we can’t even see right now. I hope it’s for the better.
Stay well.
I’m glad you are doing these and look forward to reading them, Sherry. I’ve thought that I should be writing more during this time, but haven’t quite had the motivation to do so. But I learned the other day that my daughter is trying to write in her journal every day, and I’m really glad of that. I think she’ll really appreciate having that record someday. And perhaps you’ll motivate me to blog a bit more. Thanks!