Life Right Now

For the April Journaling Challenge

It has been eye opening, literally, with life slowing down so much, to see all the things I never stopped to look at in my own neighborhood. The beautiful redwoods, the poppy wildflowers, the spring blossoms, the birds in the park.
April was little league season, and softball, then soccer tryouts and end of year festivities. Spring was always the busiest time of year and I never bothered to look around very often.

Now on my daily walks around the block I have the time to look around and enjoy the spaces around where we live. Houses I've just passed in a hurry, yards and gardens I've never admired. In the five weeks we've been home, I've seen more of my neighborhood than ever before it seems.

This is a difficult time for the whole world. No one is unaffected. The news is terrifying, the pandemic is very real, and very dangerous. I feel lucky that I live in a community that started Social Distancing so early, we "Flattened the Curve" and our hospitals here are not overwhelmed.

Now five weeks into this, it's hard to see how other places have been devastated by the virus. While my life is slow and secure, others lives will never be the same again.

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