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What Are We All Going to Do When There’s Something to Do Again?
It may be a little overwhelming.
The last few months have been uneventful at my house, and probably at yours too. No family get togethers, no day trips, no dinner parties. When I say uneventful, I do not mean boring. I have managed to fill the time with writing, music, reading, and exercise, all of which I had been neglecting before the pandemic.
I have missed going to visit my parents-in-law south of the border. I feel such a deep connection to them and to their beautiful surroundings, that it is alienating to only see them virtually for so many months. Especially since my husband and I were planning to move to their town this year and start a long-anticipated new life in the United States.
With the prospect of a vaccine that could end covid-19, new mental vistas are opening up that could presage some new physical vistas. It won’t be tomorrow or next week, but by next fall, the prospect of religious gatherings, farmers’ markets, and barbecues becomes more real.
I am starting to get cautiously excited.
At the same time, I am worried. I’m worried that all of the good habits I have developed over the past nine months will not withstand the onslaught of new temptations to get up and go places. I worry that my…
