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“Н АШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ЧЕРВ ЕНЬ 2020 WWW. UNWLA.OR G 9 COPING WITH COVID 19 ISOLATION A few solutions for not going crazy by Mar ianna (Szczawinsky) Crans, Br. 95 1) Get to all those “I’ll get to it someday” tasks you have been putting off for years. 2) Clean out all the closets, cabinets and drawers to disco ver “That’s where I put that!” 3) Deep cleaning your house only to realize that you have dust bunnies the size of golf balls in what you THOUGHT was a relatively clean house. 4) Complete those creative “Unfinished Symphonies” you have been promising yoursel f to do when you had time. 5) Do all the mending you have piled up by your sewing machine so you are not sinning by throwing out clothes that are still good or you can use around the house as work clothes. 6) Resurrect your husband’s “Honey Do List” of thi ngs that need repairs, cleaning and painting around the house. 7) Harass your husband to complete the ov erdue items on his “Honey Do List.” Why should you be the only tired one? 8) Find creative ways to use up all the canned, packaged and frozen foods tha t have been sitting in your pantry and freezer. You may discover a new dis h! 9) Go through all your bott les of beer, wine or liquor and use them up by having Wine and Beer Tastings or creating new “Covid Cocktails.” 10) Call and check on neighbors, friend s and family on a regular basis so you don’t go crazy talking to yourself! Have a “Covid Gripe Session!” 11) Exercise like you promised yourself to do, get the sleep you promised yourself to do, and most of all, hang in there, have faith in God, we will ge t through this. We are our parents’ children. Look what they went through and use their life lessons as o ur models of strength. 12) THEN if necessary, go back to Step 9. CORONA WALKS The Corona virus has impacted our lives in many ways, particularly in dictating the way we can and cannot interact with others. Close enc ounters with other human beings have become taboo; we’ve been advised to maintain a distance of six feet or more from each other and avoid physical contact bec ause hugging or even shaking hands with someone can be fatal. We wear masks and gloves to superma rkets and wipe doorknobs and ke yboards and telephones and the kitchen table with alcohol or Lysol, washing our hands frequently and diligently avoiding touchin g our own faces, let alone someone else's face. TV news reinforces the new order of things; the p undits now predict this miserab le pandemic will last far longer than expected and we must all get used to it. To people accustomed to being with others and par ticipating in life's rituals and activities together (whether in large or small groups or in pair s), these newly dictated parame ters are op- pressive and unacceptable. And so we find ways to deal with this new order without surrendering our right to share ex periences with people we care for and want to spend time with. We find ways to circumvent the res trictions and carry on with the business of living. My cousin Tania and I have designed our own version of this liberating philosophy. Always close in spirit , we now live 1,000 miles apart, but we have managed to find a way to take long walks together de spite Corona and the geographic al distance between us. This is possible thanks to technology, which allows us to walk together in two entirely different places at the same time, talk and laugh and even sing together while maintaining way more than the reco mmended 6 feet of physical dist ance between us. She walks in a park (not always the same park), whereas I walk in my own backyard. Our walks take about an hour , during which we chat about assorted things, including the flora and fauna we are seeing in our re- spective locations, family ne ws, projects we are working on, old adventures we have shared, new adven- tures we’d like to have, etc. Each walk is an affirmatio n of life, a reminder of old adventures and a precursor of adventures yet to come. - tsc
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