How to balance our grief about the pandemic with the desire for happiness and normalcy? How to remain whole and vital and strong when the world seems to be falling apart? Where is the line between staying informed and obsessive news-watching?
I ponder these things in this week’s podcast. If I were bodily able and living in the States, I think I would feel the need for action: volunteer at a food bank, help with vaccinations, give a hand to my friends and family. But house-bound in Italy, recovering from Covid-19 myself, I focus on the inner world.
If anyone is befitting to deliver a message of courage, you are he. Congratulations on your heroic medical victory and thank you once again for your wise and inspiring words. Yes, we must stop bickering, start beefing up, and prepare for the rebuild; while appreciating the small things that make life worth living every day. Happy New Year! 😌
And a happy new year to you!
Cary I can picture a list of all the people you have influenced, taught, inspired even healed. That list keeps getting longer. A Gratitude List. The thanks keep pouring in. Queue Auld Lang Syne, The final scene of “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Hey that’s not Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed. It’s Norma and you! And all of us on that list are grateful for you.
As Studs Terkel always said–Take it easy but take it!
Roger
Thanks, Roger! My parents weren’t union people but we had a Pete Seeger record with the “Talking Union Blues” on it and that’s where I first heard that phrase, Take it easy but take it.
AGreed. I’ll take it.
Cary,
Thank you so much for sharing your particularly challenging experience in this challenging time we are all living. Wishing you and Norma a renewed and beautiful chapter in the new year.
Thanks Katie!
Best wishes to both of you and to everyone else in the New Year!!
So far so good! (8am Italy time … )