This is a day to rejoice! As we shelter-in-place we celebrate in our homes, our hearts and yes online!
For many today, Easter would have been celebrated in their churches, with their families and in their homes. Such a wonderful opportunity to show love and care for those around us! Bonnets and Spring colors, Easter cantatas and the Hallelujah chorus and wonderful family photos!
We can still share our excitement and joy with the world! Enjoy these moments from our Easter past! Call someone! Skype and Facetime the grandchildren. Live today because He lives in you!
My husband read this to me from another blog. It seemed so timely! We both really believed that it should be reblogged as a wish, a hope of what human-kind could become. My thoughts are that Kelly Curtis, of “Kelly’s Quest” could have been feeling the same way.
SOMETHING LOVELY And people stayed home and read books and listened and rested and exercised and made art and played and learned new ways of being and were still and listened more deeply someone meditated someone prayed someone danced someone met their own shadow and people started thinking differently—- And people healed… And in the absence of people who lived in ignorant ways dangerous, mindless, and heartless…. The earth began to heal— And when the danger ended and people found themselves… They grieved for the dead and they made new choices and dreamed of new visions and created new ways to live and heal the earth fully just as they had been healed. Kathleen O ‘ Meara (1869)
Written after a plague had devastated Ireland in the 1860s.
SOMETHING LOVELY And people stayed home and read books and listened and rested and exercised and made art and played and learned new ways of being …
Savannah, Georgia. Tourist town extraordanire! Why come to Savannah from the far reaches of the world? It’s Historic District! Over 14.1 million visitors flock the streets of downtown Savannah each year.
Today, during our morning exersice walk, there was a diffence. These usually busy streets were… Empty! No people! No cars! No bikes! Nothing!
Coronavirus be damned! Savannah is under a “Shelter in Place” order and that means “these” streets have returned to the ownership and usage of the “locals”. Hey! That’s fine by me for the shear joy of enjoying what I moved downtown to enjoy! The beauty of the trees, the birds singing and squirrels everywhere without beer cups and trash everywhere.
I truly understand and feel for all the wonderful folks, locals who work downtown in this historic district not being able to work. Today I marvel at the the empty streets of Savannah!
Has this whole isolationist thing got you down? I know we are can’t go out to bars, restaurants or gyms. No sitting in Starbucks for awhile. Sucks and I don’t even have a Keurig! Darn! But I can remember when I had such a great time just watching dance lessons in Bryant Park!
I’m quite ready to do some dancing in my living room but there is not as much space as in an open park.
During my 2016 trip to Manhattan, I found myself enjoying a mid morning breakfast in Bryant Park next to the New York Public Library. Not many people around but a few are gathering off to my right. Intrigued I move in that direction. A solo drummer strikes a beat as participants began to sway rhythmically and unabashed. Synchronized in time with a woman only providing gestures as she pulsates and gyrates her body. Joy and tossed hair on their faces, arms in the air and hips thrusting, dancers shed individually and become part of an organic breathing community.
Park Life? Maybe, but seemed to were life could be expressed, shared, harvested.
Next the group disburses into a free for all wave of skipping, twirling and bouncing care free across to plush sun dripped grass.
So get your feet in the grass and dance! Free yourself!
Remembering good times is something even isolationist can do, what’s holding you back? Tell me about a great moment that can lift our spirits!
