Well now

HARD TO FOCUS. Did I mention I can't really focus? I have to start working on an essay due in one of the classes I am still taking. My topic is risk factors for depression in older adults. Guess what?! One of the factors, one of the huge factors, is social isolation! Imagine that. Spend a moment of your self-isolating (but probably not alone!) time imagining that. Good lord good lord The essay I do will not be a good one I can tell you that much. That much I can tell you. I also have to I think in two weeks 'attend' a presentation other students are doing. Something like that. And I also have to find older adults workshops to attend - information on dementia etc. because I missed a "High Five' workshop due to being sick back in the day when the school was open. I had two in person workshops lined up but of course now everything is cancelled forever. I have a couple of online ones I can attend but they cost $20 each and are videos and only an hour each and I...

Well now - Isolation, day 2. I think my creative writing ability has gone done the tubes with the isolation but we do what we can. It happened really slowly ultimately but also really quickly. Italy was there for us to see.Spain. Korea. China. Last week I was out and about - at school, at work, volunteering with my favourite seniors.  These activities keep me kind of even-keeled in that not even-keeled kind of a way if you know what I mean. Then it came down from on high and everything shut down but not everything we can still go to grocery stores and drug stores and parks and the beach and some people still have to go to work. All schools have moved online or simply closed. Businesses are closing - a yoga studio in my neighbourhood (because in my neighbourhood people jog and do yoga) just announced it is shuttering for good because of this isolation of unknown duration. I felt so badly for them. I have friends//acquaintances who work in the service industry and their work...