- Needless to say we are all still homebound
- On some level I am enjoying it
- There is a relief in limits
- Got to remember that when this is done
- I am working with what I can find in the house
- Turns out I can find a lot
- Turns out good thing I never kondo-ed my life
- Clutter, particularly in my sewing room
- Is what you live off of in hibernation
- These notions, this fabric, these patterns
- Are to me what nuts are to a squirrel
- Something to live off of until spring
- We are making masks
- Like crazy people
- For the nursing homes, for the food bank, and even for some of my daughter's patients
- My husband has gone into full obsessive mode
- Developing systems and timing his unit production
- Sometimes that guy is my hero
- Food comes slowly by delivery
- We are cooking what we have on hand
- Simple
- I am noticing that all the selfie shots in social media
- Are now replaced by pictures of people doing things with their households
- More pictures of kids not being rushed around
- Board games
- Cards
- Baked bread
- The dog and the cat
- Notice how much people are not missing
- Not the stuff but the people
- I try to not think about that part
- I have one family in California on the other side of a border I can't cross
- I can't get closer that a few meters to my grandchildren just a few streets away
- I have another son who is thankfully in this country for once but I can't go visit
- Will he be gone when I can?
- These are little hardships
- My big lesson from these weeks is that I already have every thing I need
- And everyone
- How much of our baggage have we laid down during this?
- How much do we not really need?
- How much do we really not need?
- How clear it is what is precious
- Like the FaceTime chats with a one-year-old
- Like the fact of living with a hero
- Like the kindness of my neighbours
- Of women on bikes dropping elastic off at my door
- Or the sight of a neighbour who carries an ancient dog outside for the fresh air
- Wrapped in blankets and immobile in a cart
- But with his nose lifted to the smells of the breeze
- How beautiful is that?
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