COVID Positives

With Covid-19 variants continuing to rise up and spread, I find myself considering some positive
things about this pandemic. It’s not easy, but rounding the corner to Year Two, this exercise
seems necessary for me.

Covid has given me more. More yoga (on Zoom with One Love Yoga in Kent, Ohio, and using YouTube videos)...more hikes with my best friend (Cuyahoga Valley National Park! Summit Metro Parks!)...more chances to learn how to cook (and to try new recipes)...more time to write...more time with our immediate family (our little pods!).

Covid also has given me less, with some of those “less” things being positive. Less illness in our family
(we have dodged the virus and are now double vaccinated and boosted...but no colds or flu or other ailments either)...less wasteful time in the car (less gasoline...better for the environment)...
less frivolous spending of money.

I’m glad for masks. I’m glad for curbside grocery shopping and Door Dash. I’m glad for the extra attention that I have been giving to sunsets and to caterpillars.

I miss going to the cinema...live theater...the ballet...and, especially, concerts. I look forward to the time when I feel comfortable boarding a plane to travel somewhere fun. I look forward to taking an Amtrak across the country again. I look forward to spending less time calling my friends and family and more time actually seeing them.

With all that said, I’m buckling up and trying (as best I can) to prepare for a winter wave. I look forward to the day when that wave is a wave goodbye to the pandemic.