Distance Versus Isolation — There’s a Difference

Don’t Overlook Our Many Blessings During Challenging Times

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We are living in “interesting times,” as the blessing goes — or was it a curse?

“May You Live in an Interesting Age”
It’s usually attributed as an “ancient Chinese” blessing or curse, depending on who’s telling the story. I’ve learned, it’s neither “ancient” nor “Chinese.” One source tracks it back only as far as “pre-1929” in the “western world.”

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I’d say this first quarter of 2020 has undoubtedly qualified as “interesting” if nothing else. And it looks to continue for a while.

These are strange weeks we’ve been navigating — with mandated social distancing to avoid spreading the COVID-19 virus, resulting in shuttered businesses, people ordered to “stay home” or “shelter-in-place,” and entire cities put on “shut-down.”

I recently mentioned in my article, “Finding Calm in Our Troubled Times:”

“This is like nothing I’ve ever seen in my lifetime. Something like this has not been experienced in the U.S. since before my maternal grandmother was born — more than…