Life in the Pandemic

Tuesday, April 28, 2020, @ 2:00 p.m. ET, to honor our frontline & essential workers I regularly rode the train to Philly, from August 2019 to March 2020. Those trips were more than weekly activities to look forward to; they were all-out sensory experiences. Weekly trips would have continued, except for COVID-19's shelter-in-place orders that began 45+ days ago. It is good to know that angels, Navy's Blue Angels (and Air Force Thunderbirds) in particular, covered an incredible city yesterday. I have a deep-down love for the City of Philadelphia, and have tried to figure out the reason why. It makes absolutely no sense to feel this way! far from family, friends, and anything familiar; I don't normally like the congestion of big cities, and did not grow up in or near Philly (never stepping foot in the city until March 2019, when my husband had a job interview); it has beggars, city grime, and plenty of cigarette smoke that floats through the air as we walk its sidew...

I recently learned that if you don't face unhealthy issues, the next generation will have giants (Goliaths)  to face . Giants are harmful addictions, anger issues, defense responses, greed, lying, etc. In other words, Goliaths are created when relational issues in one generation are left open-ended and unresolved. My well-intentioned parents were too afraid to face their villains. They denied them.  In my family of origin, multiply by two the generations of Goliaths. Two generations, on  both   sides of the family tree! Goliaths multiply and spread, like Corona Virus germs. Too man y Goliaths were squeezed into my snug childhood home, and they lacked personal hygiene habits. They stunk.  I have spent decades trying to write my story, side-tracked by many distracting and time-consuming rabbit trails. It is complicated. I am learning that my story does not begin with surviving a dysfunctional and alcoholic childhood home. It does not begin when I was frighte...