{"id":18637,"date":"2020-03-22T14:13:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T21:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=18637"},"modified":"2020-03-22T17:02:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T00:02:39","slug":"and-the-people-stayed-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2020\/03\/and-the-people-stayed-home\/","title":{"rendered":"“And the people stayed home”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you have not seen the poem …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“In a nutshell”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think we are in the phase of a transition curve that is: “So, when will get back to normal?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BUT. As in all of life, we cannot go back. We will all be changed by the experience of the current circumstances, just as we are each individually changed by our personal experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We will recover freedom of movement, but my hope is as the poem says, we will also experience healing \u2026 even if we didn’t think we were ill. I would not want anyone to read into my words that I think any part of this is a good thing \u2026. BUT, I do think there is the possibility for good changes coming out of the experience: in each of our personal lives and future choices as well as worldview. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a fictional book, about life in rural England during WWII:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA snooty young woman interviewing a stout matron: \u2018so, actually, all you\u2019re doing at the moment is the housework, arranging and cooking meals for your husband, children and evacuees, canteen work, and voluntary fire-watching?’\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

source is \u201cA Presumption of Death\u201d by Jill Payton Walsh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that was reality: 9\/1\/1939 \u2013 9\/2\/1945 which is 6 years!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perspective :)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a challenging time, but if we look at history: 1918 Spanish Flu that occurred on the tail of the horrors of WWI, WWII: 6 years of life disrupted in the U.K.! More recently the Vietnam war, HIV\/Aids Pandemic, H1N1, wars in several areas \u2026 apples and oranges maybe and especially in light of the internet and instant information\/statistics\/opinion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The best scientific minds and labs and companies are working as fast as humanly possible for solutions: vaccine and treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The people MUST stay home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the people MUST laugh and play and make art and exercise and cry and pray and meditate and \u2026. you know, live our lives, but at home!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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