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Quarantine reflections.
As life begins to gain some semblance of normality again, I’m reflecting on our iso-time.
With gigs and my EP launch cancelled, I kept myself busy by keeping up our normal homeschooling life (12 years and counting). We got out the dehydrator and made beef jerky and preserved apples and lemons. We picked olives from our trees and brined them up. We planted seeds and my never-been-a-green-thumb daughter decided to propagate succulents.
The kids wrote letters and I wrote songs. Hubs worked (in a nursing home) and we marvelled at how risky it felt to go to Woollies or Coles. I played in a pub online in LA via zoom and held live talks supporting others new to the homeschool-game. We set up shelving in the shed - a job we’d been procrastinating for too long and we watched Gilmore Girls and McLeod’s Daughter’s reruns.
We read aloud the stories of Corrie Ten Boom and letters by Dietrich Bonhoeffer both imprisoned during WW2 which we found inspiring in a new way. We played lots of card games, drank wine at night and missed our extended families (cherishing the time we spent in online video chats with them instead). We got take-away for the odd date night ‘in’ and I really missed going to gigs as my creative and social outlet.
Flowers on the table, journaling, baking and opening up the blinds to let the light in all helped to give me perspective and remind me of beauty. I needed those reminders daily.
As life begins to gain some semblance of normality again, I’m reflecting on our iso-time.
With gigs and my EP launch cancelled, I kept myself busy by keeping up our normal homeschooling life (12 years and counting). We got out the dehydrator and made beef jerky and preserved apples and lemons. We picked olives from our trees and brined them up. We planted seeds and my never-been-a-green-thumb daughter decided to propagate succulents.
The kids wrote letters and I wrote songs. Hubs worked (in a nursing home) and we marvelled at how risky it felt to go to Woollies or Coles. I played in a pub online in LA via zoom and held live talks supporting others new to the homeschool-game. We set up shelving in the shed - a job we’d been procrastinating for too long and we watched Gilmore Girls and McLeod’s Daughter’s reruns.
We read aloud the stories of Corrie Ten Boom and letters by Dietrich Bonhoeffer both imprisoned during WW2 which we found inspiring in a new way. We played lots of card games, drank wine at night and missed our extended families (cherishing the time we spent in online video chats with them instead). We got take-away for the odd date night ‘in’ and I really missed going to gigs as my creative and social outlet.
Flowers on the table, journaling, baking and opening up the blinds to let the light in all helped to give me perspective and remind me of beauty. I needed those reminders daily.