@fiesty76 You wrote your thoughts beautifully. you wrote the thoughts of many of us as we live behind closed doors and in our small and smaller worlds, It is indeed a shock to my entire being to consider walking freely into a grocery store or going out with friends for lunch or for goodness sake just doing something for fun! Fun!!!???? Fun. I'm going to have to learn how to have fun. How to laugh. How to relax in the real world with real people and doing real, normal things again!

It was almost overwhelming when I stopped on a whim to see the beautiful flowers of spring and bought hanging baskets for my patio. I always love this time of year when life is returning to the world, but this is very different, isn't it?

We've been living a shuttered life for over a year! That's a very long time to hide yourself away from everything normal, all 'normal' activity. I've realized how 'shuttered' we really are now, from each other and everything we know. Will life really ever be the same? What and how much of what have we lost, has changed, has changed us forever? Are attitudes so changed we will never get civility in our treatment of others? Respect for others and their ideas and thoughts?

Perhaps. Hope not. But, there is so much anger and hostility and cancelling out the other person! I pray we come back to some place with joy and honor and peace and trust.......Please God. We need our help. Help us to reach out our hand and touch......yes, touch others and lift them up! We've all been torn down for so long......time to allow ourselves to smile and see each other's smile and smile back!

Fiesty.....I'm smiling at you, a huge twinkle of a smile and reaching out my hand to your in friendship and love and here to walk with you to our new world. Hope.

Bless you and all of us as we learn again to live our lives in freedom and joy! It is a wonderful, frightening thought.....
elizabeth