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Describe an experience this week that made you happy.
Some thing that made me happy this week was the icicles. I love the way the sun glistened through them. I love the whole idea of snow melting and changing from one form to another. How relatively quickly there’s a change in the structure of a flake on the roof, to a drop rolling down an icicle and freezing in a different location. The world is full of miracles too often overlooked because we are so busy. For me that has been the blessing of CoVid (if there is such a thing). I am noticing things that were at the periphery of my comings and goings of a “normal daily life”. Many of these things now take center stage, such the morning sun casting shadows and shining outside my window bring me joy in new ways.
March 15, 2021
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Imagine you’re talking to a couple of high school students in 2050. They ask, “How did the pandemic change the world as you knew it?” How do you think you would answer?
The pandemic changed the world in many ways, In the case of our family , The pandemic made possible for the first time ever to have family parties where all members living in very different countries, were able to attend. We couldn't accomplish that not even for our wedding, but thanks to zoom the internet and the millennials …we kept a regular year of family parties that were very enjoyable during 2020. We stopped them during 2021, but I heard yesterday from a niece that she missed those parties enormously. During the parties we talked about -the family tree I had been working on for years and years -my son cooked live a Coq au vin in DC and Marisol in Bogota followed the recipe and both displayed their creations - we sang happy birthday in many different languages -we also celebrated the master’s graduation of our daughter - we also had a Christmas party- son prepared live-Mulled wine-I had bought cakes that I sent to several of the cousins in Colombia and in the USA and we toasted and eat them “together” - that was part of a Novena which is a traditional party of praying singing and traditional food eating
July 10, 2021