The long dark has finally settled on the dreaded year of 2020. We still have a long road to travel before we see the end of Covid-19, but there is light ahead. And hope.
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With vaccines and being smart, we have every reason to look ahead with optimism. This virus may think it is a supervillain bent on the ruination of or total domination of the world, but it is still just a virus. Just like so many other viruses, only it’s new so we have no long-acquired immunity to it.
But we will win. Mankind has beaten pandemics before and come out stronger. Our local businesses will open again and pick up the pieces. People laid off and furloughed will go back to work. Our lives will be able to return to something resembling normal. In time.
I don’t do New Year Resolutions. I randomly decide I need to work harder, smarter, or simply more. You don’t need to flip the year for that. Of course, we all know the saying about best laid plans.
I have many writing projects on the go and hope to share more of them with you soon.
As socially distanced (aka physically apart) as we are, we are all in this trying time together. Let’s be together (apart), help each other, and most importantly be kind and forgiving towards each other.
Simplify your life by rehoming things of valuable use to others that you have no need of. Those suffering the hardship of reduced incomes are struggling and have no means to buy these things.
Share a smile and a wave with a neighbor or a stranger from a distance.
Pay forward or commit an act of kindness to a stranger.
Be extra kind to those serving us daily in the stores, delivering our parcels and groceries, looking after our loved ones in hospitals and care homes, and all our first responders. They are going through an unbelievable amount of stress right now.
Give a little something of yourself, safely, to help others.
I do promise myself, again, to blog more, write, edit, and read more. And to share that to help others.
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I will see you again in the dark recesses of the virtual world over the course of the new year.
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