COVID-19 Lessons

COVID 19 In a world where everyone has lived in an instant mindset that many have lost the value of appreciating life, we have found ourselves in 2020 in COVID 19 the pandemic that struck this world. Graduates and high school seniors felt that their lives were robbed, and others complained that the grocery stores were not opened 24/7. Yet in WWII people knew no ending just like COVID and hey technology was non-existent. The comradeship of life to do something for others was rallied together in my England. One can say COVID blame the Chinese blame anyone other than thinking what opportunities can come from this pandemic. Get out walk see the beauty around you. Encourage someone else. Yet after a few weeks the Baptists are hailing victory as they can go back to church. It’s not about if you are a Baptist or another religion it’s seeing that this situation can bring actual healing to the world. The environment stopped and flourished while many sat at home and complained the countryside yarned and smelt not diesel but the fresh air and did not complain. It is sad that Prom didn’t come but maybe there was an opportunity to reach out to make new friends to see that the world you lived in could be changed by a song you wrote. Just maybe Prom was meant to be seen in what you could give instead of what a person could take. Tony Blair an ex-Prime Minister of England said that there is so much to learn from these times. His right I go to the local grocery store and see people not happy because they have to stand six feet a part and others petitioning that the bill of rights is not being adhered to. Others stand arguing in nurses’ faces. Those nurses who struggle to keep the faith and save lives in a new world which hasn’t gotten answers. Yet you complain and say you have rights while they have seen people dying. Jimmy Fallon maybe stuck at home but his happy family making the most of it all laughing about life and being honest of how life has changed, why can’t we see the good instead of hey let’s go to the grocery store again for the thousandth time. Let’s be honest the value of life is not brought in a store. It’s from seeing that this is an opportunity to actually really care. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy so well explains in his book that is a great read from 5- when you die of how we should value who we are. It’s not in how many likes on Facebook or how many emoticons I get sent me. It’s seeing that a person is valued and that they have worth. Is COVID 19 from hell no hey things come and go but it is from hell if you don’t let go of of all your complaints and see that others can reap from encouraging words of love. It’s seeing the value in nature in a smile in a puddle it’s so much more than a church full of people it’s people actually loving each other when they can’t sing a song together. It’s connection in a new world it’s not saying what you haven’t got but valuing what you have got it’s seeing that the world has beauty and that the world might have changed but did you change or did you just complain. 2020 like no other what does your story say …. One of courage and good or the other you get to write the pages. COVID 19 a history maker like no other one of good to many, hope for others and a world that has the chance to change for the better for others.

My Little Women

I never ever thought I was good enough to have children so when I had two amazing daughters I felt I had won the moon and Heavens. Ironically when I was pregnant with my first daughter Little women with Winona Ryder that was the CD that I listened to and loved so much. I was in England my home and my little girl came home to a Winnie the Pooh decorated room I was happy little me, little her. Then came my second daughter six years later miles away from home now in America no one came over Little me and now two little them. Life has a tendency to keep ticking and as time went on I became a single mum. I did want to give up any time with them I choose to keep going no matter what, my little women dancing at night singing to our hearts wanted to cry, laughing at silliness, snowmen were drawn on the floor in the height of summer as flour was scattered. We danced in the rain, collected clothes and food for those in need. Yard sale after yard sale making homeschool our reality. We were survivors when the world said that we would not survive I cheered them on and they cheered me to believe. My Little Women how I wanted time to be captured to stop to freeze, from songs being sung to Christmas decorations hung I wanted them to stay my Little Women. We choose to fight a battle to keep going when odds said not to believe. Why not I said we have nothing to lose and so we fought an often lonely battle. My little Women who gave up often their childhood to believe that we all could succeed. Ironic isn't it as this chapter marches on a new Little Women is now in the theatres I am not pregnant listening to the songs, I am me crying heart wondering what the next chapter holds. My Little Women, all grown up. No singing on a deck, no hair in the bathtub no shouting to vacuum our chapter now ending a new one beginning.

, or singing in the rain. The new chapter calls to be written My Little Women yes My Little women now or grown and me Little me holding onto to those amazing memories. You made me Me girls, you my Little women I am so proud of you. Love you Mama XX