a time to give thanks …
The pandemic forced us to reconsider and replace known ways with new routines and rituals; it inspired new reasons – reminders – to be thankful – for all we had previously taken for granted – hugs and handshakes, hanging out and happy hour, multiple trips to the grocery store on the same day and meetings without masks; hair appointments and pedicures and parties and graduations and weddings and funerals – and our kids going off to school every day. We promised ourselves, didn’t we, that we’d never take those things for granted again. I wonder if we’ve maybe forgotten some of that …