Survival. We are all consumed by it right now. Will I survive? Will my partner or spouse? Family and friends? The worry extends further out to the economy, our own businesses, our jobs.
Will any of what we have known survive? I have lived through many losses in my life. Anxiety and grief are not new to me. I lost my partner to AIDS in the ’90s.
I lost my best friend, too, and many others. I have watched several siblings die. I lost a thriving business that I loved. Loss, it seems, has been a constant companion.
Despite that, or maybe because of it, I remain cautiously optimistic about the deepening crisis the entire world now faces. As a community, we have a long history of being strong and resilient.
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