The year the Earth stood still. In late 2019, an epoch of our time would arrive in the form of a virus. This virus, COVID-19, would spread swiftly and brutally across the world in the early stages of 2020 and throughout the year that followed. This virus would ultimately steer humanity towards a global crisis…
Month: August 2021
Living in a State of Grace
Images from Grace Hansen, self-taught artist.
New Normal Mantra
The full moon, lit candles, and echoes of the local church bells have been my regiment, my go to amid this nightmare of COVID-19, reminding me there is a higher power. The acronym, COVID-19, is now a part of the global psyche. It emanates trauma that seeps through the underbelly of society, until there’s a…
Some Good, Some Bad
The last ~18 months (dating back to March 2020) have been difficult times for pretty much everyone, with so many changes and challenges affecting our daily lives, not to mention the pace at which these are being reported to us via social and traditional media. It feels to me like a large wedge has been drawn…
COVID: Bringing Back The Code
Being an introverted empath smack in the middle of cannabis legalization is an interesting experience. I am constantly seeking balance between needing to help the problems and needing to retreat to heal from the problems. I can viscerally feel the industry’s growing pains. By Dec 2019 I had many Canna successes, tons of resources, but…
Ramblings “What I Learned During CoVid19”
The Coronavirus 2020 global quarantine experience has taught me… how to see a smile in a masked person’s eyes, there can be greener grasses and bluer skies, more chipmunks run and play, and more birds chirp and fly, and politicians have a new subject area, in which to express their lies, and as powerful as…
What’s It All About?
Sometimes my positive attitude is annoying to others. And, being human, there are times that I simply can’t find my positive outlook. However, most of the time, my family and friends appreciate that I know that there are always opportunities in whatever comes our way. The pandemic of 2020 (and beyond, apparently) has taught me…
What I learned During the Pandemic? How to Pivot
By Gregory Bradley Right before the pandemic hit, I was scheduled to get on a plane to Portland to start a big training contract I had won. Once the pandemic shut everything down, I asked myself – “What am I going to do now? I sat in my quiet back yard in Queens and thought…
Inspiration During Isolation
By Eve Glover I am a writer, and during the height of the pandemic, some of the lifestyle magazines I contributed to and was looking forward to writing for lost all of their advertising money and are sadly no longer being published. I started focusing my attention instead on newspapers that were still onboarding writers,…