3/22 Covid-19 Update: "Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts"
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Evening everybody, My family has a campsite up the North Cascades Highway in Washington state that is the location of a lot of my life's happiest and most peaceful memories. We always joked that when the apocalypse happened, we would all flee there and at least be spend our last minutes together looking at that river when the end came. While this most certainly isn't the end, everything has a bit of an apocalyptic feel to it here at the moment, and so we found ourselves there yesterday - properly socially distanced in a very wide circle around a campfire. I'm still having a hard time finding "covid free" moments -- it seems to be the ever-present current below every thought and feeling I have. But I think there were a few times yesterday when I was able to look up at the trees and feel the sunshine and bask in the sensation of being in the orbit of people I love and enjoy just the tiniest taste of separation from this virus. Fleeting, luxurious, privileged moments that I know not everyone has access to right now - but I tried to give myself permission to feel them. Because what good comes from denying myself that gift?
3/22 Covid-19 Update: "Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts"
3/22 Covid-19 Update: "Helping someone else…
3/22 Covid-19 Update: "Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts"
Evening everybody, My family has a campsite up the North Cascades Highway in Washington state that is the location of a lot of my life's happiest and most peaceful memories. We always joked that when the apocalypse happened, we would all flee there and at least be spend our last minutes together looking at that river when the end came. While this most certainly isn't the end, everything has a bit of an apocalyptic feel to it here at the moment, and so we found ourselves there yesterday - properly socially distanced in a very wide circle around a campfire. I'm still having a hard time finding "covid free" moments -- it seems to be the ever-present current below every thought and feeling I have. But I think there were a few times yesterday when I was able to look up at the trees and feel the sunshine and bask in the sensation of being in the orbit of people I love and enjoy just the tiniest taste of separation from this virus. Fleeting, luxurious, privileged moments that I know not everyone has access to right now - but I tried to give myself permission to feel them. Because what good comes from denying myself that gift?