I’ve been thinking. . .
• We were sent home in the middle of March. This gives us the opportunity to begin gardening activities early and to ignite interest in spending more time at leisure and getting away on weekends.
• The increase of virtual teaching and removal from our usual work environment has forced us to make clear delineation between home life and work life. We are becoming experts at putting aside one to preserve the other.
• Restaurants are closed or limited and grocery stores are complicated—so we are forced to cook and eat at home, using more garden produce and farmers market produce and meat. We’ve been experimenting w new techniques and ingredients & the outcomes are very rewarding. When we plan carefully, the opportunity to eat more healthily and control calories is enhanced.
• We are locked behind masks and consequently separated by an imaginary barrier that squelches our usual sense of intimacy and human connection. The lack of comforting feedback we experience by observing facial responses and smiles in return for our interaction make us uncertain of how we are being received. Faced with this lack of the body language we are intimately accustomed to, we have been forced to look within ourselves for reassurance. . . What a novel concept.
Home / work balance. . . Time for ourselves and our family. . . Gardening. . . Cooking at home. . . And. . . Looking within for gauging our self worth.
Things we needed to do so badly all along.