Time travel~ Day #6 (Week 3)

Is anyone else baking bread? Slow boiling chicken carcasses? Planting vegetable seeds? Having meaningful conversations over a home-cooked meal? Playing board games? Have we time traveled back to pre-Industrial Revolution days? Does Mother Nature have something to say? I’m a ponderer and at the moment, I can’t stop pondering. I just can’t fathom what’s going on. In fact, everything’s going on. Not enough food. Too much oil. Disappearing jobs. Vanishing income. Grounded airplanes. Cancelled sports. Cancelled school. Shuttered stores. Shuttered movie theaters. Closed restaurants. Closed yoga studios. Closed museums. People sick and people dying. Overwhelmed hospitals. Life is now lived in our homes. Because we have to stay home, because our entire families are now under one roof all day long, naturally we’re trying new things. At least I am. Time has slowed down enough for us to catch up with ourselves and with each other. We’re learning new things about ourselves and about each other. I think I was born into the wrong era. Slowed down time actually energizes me. And surprisingly, my days are busier than ever. More meaningful than ever. And I’m not even getting into my car. I’m reading more, cooking more, gardening more. There is so much to learn, so much to practice, so much to do. There is a sense of urgency in the air - with so much unknown ahead of us, it feels vital to be productive, to expand our reach and to stay involved. Daily jobs, for those lucky enough to have one, gives structure to our days, so the unstructured time, the time we once used up on our commutes, feels like a privilege, an opportunity to try something new. Whatever we choose to do with this time, I hope its value will endure when we’ve returned to our normal lives, if they’re ever normal again.