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Monday, April 13, 2020

Quiet then Busy

We are a month into the Great Shutdown. A month of barely leaving the house. A month of plans being cancelled (or in some cases postponed). A month of coming up with creative workarounds (like the township egg hunt). 

Zoom has taken off from being something a few businesses used for meetings to everyone using to hold family holiday dinners across generations. 

The first week into this we were busy canceling events and cocooning. We borrowed a lot of books and DVDs from the library with the intention of reading and watching movies. 

In many ways it was nice and calm.

It seems within a week people figured out how to hold virtual events. Instead of attending one service a week, suddenly I was attending three or more. Instead of maybe going to one Seder, I went to several Seders. Since everything can be done from the comfort of home, I could suddenly do more. 

Amazing how quickly we went from over-scheduled to not-at-all-scheduled to over-scheduled.

Maybe we should all be taking a pause during this crazy time and not try to be over-scheduled. 

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