New Routines
Overnight a curve ball hit the globe. Changes upon changes are disrupting routines. Many will die but many more will survive. I keep thinking of the young parents forced to work from home with no day care, oh my gosh what a challenge that must be.I think back to when I was raising my two beasties and the disruptions they would have caused while I tried to work would have been awful.
This morning I heard a lady on the radio giving great advise to those learning the challenges of working from home. It may sound great but not everybody is not disciplined enough to work from home. Kids can be very disruptive. Weekend warriors will start partying more. I'm not sure what drug addicts do in times like we are experiencing.
Times they are a changing. and damn fast
I used to enjoy planning my weekly route around the grocery sale items between the stores close to me then prepare meals from my purchases. Not doing that anymore. I'm planning more meals around dried goods like beans, rice etc. I love fresh foods but eating more frozen now and it's not bad. Delivery is great too. I'm keeping my butt home unless Mom needs something but there are five or six of us at her beckon call.
Stay safe folks, stay at home.
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There is no shortage of fresh produce here, or even that one item that everybody seemed to think they would die without
Short supply on many other items.
I cook and just baked own bread that is not new though, I have sent for many a cheap second hand book from amazon, were usually I went to charity shops. Prices are not bad for second hand ones, but you are put through the lines to get to them. amazon like you to buy the kindle ones, I like the books as my brother is avid reader of same books.
But yes life routines change, mine used to be moving now I have to stay put, lets hope I do not root
Stay safe keep smiling
And you are marooned on unsure ground.
Something within you has closed down;
And you cannot push yourself back to life.
You have been forced to enter empty time.
The desire that drove you has relinquished.
There is nothing else to do now but rest
And patiently learn to receive the self
You have forsaken in the race of days.
At first your thinking will darken
And sadness take over like listless weather.
The flow of unwept tears will frighten you.
You have traveled too fast over false ground;
Now your soul has come to take you back.
Take refuge in your senses, open up
To all the small miracles you rushed through.
Become inclined to watch the way of rain
When it falls slow and free.
Imitate the habit of twilight,
Taking time to open the well of color
That fostered the brightness of day.
Draw alongside the silence of stone
Until its calmness can claim you.
Be excessively gentle with yourself.
Stay clear of those vexed in spirit.
Learn to linger around someone of ease
Who feels they have all the time in the world.
Gradually, you will return to yourself,
Having learned a new respect for your heart
And the joy that dwells far within slow time.”
?John O'Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings“
Although the elderly are more at risk, they probably can adapt to staying at home easier than the youth. I pity the parents that have to put up with their own children day in and day out, especially if they are forced to work from home. I bet this makes them appreciate teachers more. Of course the challenge of working from home is better than having no job to work.
In my community I am seeing more people walking and riding their bikes so that is a good thing.
Yes, virus-time. I think we are into the 4th week of people and their panic buying.
Empty shelves on corporate stores, Walmart, Publix supermarket, Home Depot, Walgreens pharmacy to name a few.
Friday morning at 8 is when Publix opened and they didn't have drinking water or paper products.
Amazing to me, with the exception of the gourmet ice cream, all the standard ice cream selections were gone!
He emerged into a changed world.
Maybe the whackers of the world will totally escape
But then, everything has been handled very even handedly here anyway, from the top down so people never felt they were being lied to, so they didn't react extremely either.
Not much has changed for me.
I don’t go out as often as I did when I was living in Malaysia. I am not ready to drive just yet over here in the States coz you guys drive on the wrong side of the road!
It’s pretty bad in Malaysia where the people have been instructed to remain indoors ( MCO-movement control order ). Only one person can go out at any one time. The MCO has just been extended until 14th April.
Hope you’re keeping yourself safe and well, Fay
We drive on the correct side here
I’ve been driving in Malaysia for the past 30 years and it’d be pretty hard for me to just change overnight.
Art and I have plans to visit Malaysia once the travelling ban is lifted and that would require me to drive us around while we’re there therefore I really don’t wanna mess my head up and make myself confused by getting a US driving license now and start driving here.
As for my son, it’d be easier for him coz he has only been driving in Malaysia less than 3 years now.
The sooner you drive in the US the better for you.
Well, maybe I should coz I’ve been dependent on Art to drive me to the Goodwill stores and I don’t like it a bit coz I feel pressured with him being there waiting for me to shop! Without him, I could be there the whole day!!
The longer you leave it, the harder it will get in your head.
Now is possibly not the best time I guess. I don't know if you are restricted in your movements there yet , but learning to drive is probably not considered essential.