Our "Whole New World"
Since I last had time to blog (nearly 17 months ago), the world has completely changed. Forget my completed master's degree and once-robust therapy practice. It's all virtual and solitary now. I'm sitting in my at-home office doing case notes and a UPS truck drove by. One of the 20 delivery trucks to visit our short street of 8 houses just today. The child in me began to wonder about a world where the people freest to roam about are the "bringers" - the people brave enough to expose themselves (and their families) so we can sit at home and wonder if the grocery order will or won't include bananas. Or, in my case, deliver 4 bunches instead of the 4 ordered. Much to my surprise, I noted that my last blog post from 2018 was also about delivery, but from a mindset of freedom from our former way of living. No one knows how long this new way of living/adjusting/coping will last, and no one got to choose it. Suddenly, every family in north America has been forc...