Connection in Isolation

It has been a long time since I have lived in a place that did not have trees and water and big beautiful sky both in the morning and at night. I love having access to immerse myself in nature without driving anywhere.

I remember living with no car. I and everyone I knew lived above a restaurant or liquor store. We made jokes about the cockroaches. If I needed to get out of my apartment, to walk and breathe, the smells were not of rain and mist and cedar, but instead of car exhaust and grease traps and stale beer.

Most of us are experiencing some level of grief right now. To varying degrees, we are being asked to let go of a way of being that we have grown accustomed to, some degree of comfort, habit.

We are more separate from each other than we have ever been. Before the pandemic, already we were being prepared...seduced into using our cell phones and social media as a way to find connection. We have been “seeing” each other through our screens, Responding to each other through our screens, rather than the effort required to connect in person.

But now, we have fewer choices. Our children are home with us. Maybe our partners or roommates are home with us all the time, working from home. We are facing new difficulties. We have become more aware of the patterns we learned from our best-intentioned parents that may no longer be serving us in our relationships with our friends, partners, or children. We have perhaps a sense of hopelessness. Of feeling trapped.All of this leaves us feeling isolated, disconnected.

Get outside! Breathe. Connect with whatever natural world is accessible to you. Find the biggest or tiniest piece of sky. Breathe. Listen for the sounds. Notice which ones are from nature; wind, rain, birdsong, rustling of leaves, and which ones are from humans; traffic, construction, businesses, neighbors arguing, struggling as humans, singing.

Breathe again. Consider the Divine, True self within you. Consider the Divine true self of those around you. Listen, see, weave an authentic connection. Trust. Prepare to begin your own transformation.

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