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Has the pandemic affected your ability to accomplish your life goals or plans in any way? If so, share some examples.
Just went to see this house in Coventry decorated for Christmas. The gentleman who owns the place lets people walk up his driveway to see the incredible display he sets up every year. People come from miles around, notified about it mostly via Facebook word of mouth. Its a crazy busy light display with different colored lights blinking and twinkling and circling everywhere you look. But it was joyous and it really lifted my spirits for awhile. This has been a hard holiday season. I see in the paper how businesses and families are struggling, and we can't get together like we normally would to celebrate the end of this awful year. I can't wait to get that vaccine so I can see my mother and father again in person.
December 25, 2020
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Describe an experience this week that made you happy.
My children are beaming joyous sources of light in this bizarre and sad/scary time we are living in. My daughter is 11months old and is obsessed with kittens. I'm pretty sure she thinks every one of her books is about kittens... Goodnight Moon: about two kittens playing with yarn. Brown bear Brown bear: about a purple cat. Are you my mother?: is about... you guessed it... a kitten. My son told me today "Well, a long time ago they didn't have airplanes. So, they used spaceships instead!". This just made me laugh and laugh. I find myself sharing these stories about my children almost exclusively on social media because I cannot even deal with the social and political reality that we are embedded in. I'm someone who used to post daily about social justice and politics. I would say about 90% of my posts pre-covid were about political topics. Then in the first few weeks of covid, I still was posting about politics. But late spring/summer sort of changed that- I've become tired by it all. And I just want to share the silly, joyful aspects of my life with others.
November 20, 2020