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Where gratitude lives
I just read Julia E Hubbel’s piece on gratitude in These Days. She issued a most wonderful challenge to us, her devoted friends and readers. She wants us to give a shout-out to All. The. Humans. making our lives better/bearable/survivable in the chaos.
Here goes:
I am grateful for my J.O.B. and the managers, nurses, and physicians I work with. They are supporting me (and other nurse navigators) who are high risk so we can work from home and be safe, stay healthy, yet keep working.
I am kept sane by the love of my family and friends. My daughters check-in regularly and I get to see my granddaughters on FaceTime (invented solely for grandparents to communicate with their grandchildren — I’m convinced!). My friends have kept in touch virtually and via text. We may be socially distanced — but I am not alone.
I laugh every day in the company of my housemate/cousin/sister/friend who came to spend the winter with me from Upstate NY and got marooned in NC a bit longer than she bargained for. I can’t imagine better company to be marooned with on the ‘desert island’ that is social distancing. Her good humor, kindness, and eternal optimism are unsinkable. And her sarcasm is genetic.
This downtime has led to more meditation, more yoga, more opportunities to practice self-care…
