I amdisappointed. And on days when I stop to think, I feel overwhelmed with sadness for a world I knew and loved just six months ago.
Fortunately, the pandemic means I have no regular childcare so I have almost no time to stop and think.Instead, I am forced to stay present because I am forced to chase two very young children who are busy chasing two squirrels.
I quite literally stop and smell the flowers because they stop and smell every single flower. I put my phone down and pause my doom-scrolling because they are both now squatting on the ground trying to get a spider to climb on to their hands and I should probably put a stop to that.We are currently isolating in the town in upstate New York where I did some of my growing up.