Oops – just clicked on your name and there was your blog. You may want to remove me from the “smart” group. 😀

Dava, post a link for me so I can do the same. I’d love to read your new posts. Thank you for putting me in the group of “smart” people. 🙂 We sure have been on a roller coaster ride of emotions. Thanks for sharing your experience, Dava, and stay safe.

The Pollyanna in me loves that you lead with hope, Sharon. I do, too. Yes, some will act like this was all an inconvenient time for them, but I hope most see how it’s focused us on what’s really important in life. Stay safe, my friend.

Here’s a less weighty hope: may we both continue to blog more often. I miss having a group of blogs written by smart people to turn to. I even started a Feedly account to try and keep up better.

I stopped watching news, too, Lori. I also have electronic news accounts that I skim, read, or skip. It all becomes too much. I try to focus on the Be Kind of my statement above. Because you’re right. We don’t know what the other person is going through.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, my friend. Be safe!

It’s not about whether we personally are going to be sickened and die. It’s about caring for others enough to put our needs aside for a while. And if we really examined those needs, we might see that many of them are just wants. (That excludes people who need to work and cannot right now — they have the right to need to go out.)

I stopped watching news. I get my updates from newspapers that I can easily put aside or not read. My mood lifted. My mood improved even more when I decided to limit Facebook. I post pictures and go to the pages of friends whom I know are not prone to posting political stuff.

I limit the politics in my life. I have my opinions, but who cares? It’s about being kind to others right now, to not flipping out if someone isn’t following social distancing guidelines (we don’t know what’s going on in their lives or their heads). To me, that’s more important than any political position.