Fifty-Second Invitation

       

                                                                                                                 Painting by Charlie Watt

Living In The Times of COVID-19

Some of us are on the Frontlines, fighting for other people’s lives and praying to stay safe.

Some of us are working long hours at home on Zoom, exhausted from sitting in front of screens for hours.

Some of us are receiving unemployment checks and are buying time, anxious yet trying to keep hope alive that one day before the government’s financial support stops, there will be a way to make money again and pay the bills.

Some of us are grieving loved ones who have departed from the Corona Virus.

Some of us are currently sick with the virus —  very sick —  and are struggling intensely this very moment.

Some of us had the virus and are now living with post-viral symptoms including immense fatigue that sends us back to bed after making breakfast.

Some of us were blessed enough to not have symptoms yet to have tested positive for the antibodies.

Some of us were sick but it wasn’t too bad and health has returned.

Some of us have watched loved ones, neighbors and friends successfully fight for their lives from the virus and are feeling very very grateful.

Some of us have been sheltering-at-home and are making the best of it, learning new and simpler ways of living and are actually enjoying it, (except for the fact that people are suffering and dying.)

Some of us feel guilty about enjoying ourselves living int the times of COVID-19.

Some of us have anxiety about getting sick and won’t leave our homes.

Some of us are conscientious about venturing outside of our homes and we wash our hands a lot, stay six feet apart from others, wear masks and gloves and stay as safe as we possibly can.

Some of us don’t wear masks or gloves and you can find us bowling, getting tattoos, pedicures, going to the movies, beauty salons, church services, and picnicking with tons of people at the park.

Some of us live alone and are so lonely and badly miss being hugged and wonder if that will ever happen again.

Some of us are hating being single right now.

Some of us are very familiar with single life and are truly doing okay these days.

Some of us are so scared because there is no work, no money, and hardly any food to feed the children.

Some of us are utilizing this time for making big life changes, so that the life that follows will indeed be different.

Some of us are treading water.

Some of us are getting divorced because we have been forced to face that we really don’t like the person we live with at all.

Some of us are deathly scared of the person we live with and we can’t get away from domestic abuse.

Some of us are finding ourselves fighting more at home and its miserable.

Some of us are growing closer as a family and are discovering more harmony as a team.

Some of us are dreading going back into our lives as they were and really value the simplified living that has become a way of life.

Some of us are so grateful for Mother Earth to have some relief from human tread.

Some of us are so fearful of this coming to an end and greed of Mother Earth’s resources and our careless polluting becomes normal again. 

Some of us are holding the vision that we bring back gifts from living in the times of COVID-19 and create a new normalcy based on the fact that we all live together on this globe.

These are some of the themes that I am witnessing from my psychotherapist chair.

What I am aware of is that no matter what our responses are to living in COVID-19 times, there is much more awareness that we impact one another.

It’s an amazing thing — our actions and other people’s actions affect each other!

Duh, but to really get it is radical!

We are aligning our actions with the fact that we are in this together.

How fast this awareness may dwindle I do not know, but it appears that the trance of being separate is quickly regaining its hold, rapidly deluding us so that we feel free to be unconscious and do whatever we want to again.

As I watch humans, the thought consistently goes through my mind, “Humans are the weirdest species!”

And that is a kind, very kind, way of saying it.

Despite this, I love humans. Many humans anyway.

I admit to also hating the adolescent and often psychopathic ways of humans that appear to have no problem hurting others.

We hurt one another but see it as worth it for our gain.

We are in denial about our impact and the pain and suffering we cause other species that we share the planet with.

If we do have awareness of the suffering we cause, we refuse to care.

Some humans are this way.

Let’s face it, many humans are this way.

Many humans who are in leadership.

But there are many, many of us humans who are committed to the knowingness that all lives matter.

We know that our Mother Earth matters and that we are part of Her.

Gaia.

All of us interconnected with one another in one Grid.

As we live in the times of COVID-19, I see an opportunity for us to grow beyond our adolescence that we have gotten stuck in for way too long.

It is time.

I think the virus can truly help us to wake up.

We need to mature.

It is the year of 2020.

The year of the election (hopefully!).

I have grieved and felt exasperated that this year of 2020 — this year that I have been longing for since November 9 2016 — has been taken over by the virus and that the usual campaigning and advocating for changes in leadership have severely been limited by COVID-19.

But I am thinking out of the box these days into our new life.

With all my heart,  I am envisioning COVID-19 as a major catalyst for change — the change in consciousness that shows us the paramount importance for leadership anchored in  cooperative intelligence with others.

I am holding that the the horror of the 90,000 plus lives that the virus has so far taken can at least serve to give rise to a human collective that passionately insists on new leadership that not only has heart and soul but is truly conscious of the necessity to take action in alignment with the fact that all lives matter.

Please hold this with me. 

2020 vision

Focus on the mission

Accept nothing less

Let’s end this mess

Can’t stay this low

Can’t eat money oh no

It’s the law of attraction

Bring it into action.

Breathe and soften

Melt resistance often

Though we’re spinning

See love winning

Love, devajoy