Things I WANT to remember about the Pandemic: a List

- The quality of gorgeous, soft, arching light as it moves across the apartment over the course of a day...

- The unstoppable on-coming of Spring. [Spring is not cancelled. Nor is Love.]

- The hugeness of heart, and inextinguishable spirit of New York Freakin' City

- Governor Cuomo: kicking extreme, superhero-level, ass. [#PRESIDENTCUOMO]

- Waking before dawn every day. Greeting the day with ritual and respect [lighting a candle, morning pages, meditation, gratitudes], and feeling a sense of total possibility as the light fills the sky

- A new *concept of time* as it passes in these long stretches

- Alec’s loving eyes 


- Alec's valiance and courage

- Tati simply *being*

- Empty streets

- The absolute, absolute, bone-chilling Quiet

- Masked people walking in confusion and fear

- Quiet Saturday nights in New York.

- Quiet every. Single. Nights. in New York.

- The news. The goddam news.

- The naive and beautiful confusion of all the animals

- The lack of “hustle”

- Cooking and eating slowly

- Wondering what else there might be to fix around the house

- Journaling without any goals

- The absolutely delicious, indulgent pleasure of sending (and receiving!) written correspondence

-  The people I made time for, connected with, and got to know better, because of the pandemic.

- The genuine camaraderie of a shared global adversity. Feeling a part of something so definitive, world-changing, and so much bigger than myself, however horrific. 


- Being THIS vividly in touch with my mind, body, and soul

- Learning about humanity inside the crisis. Learning about my own humanity and the nature of humanity.

- Asking huge questions about what this all means. For us as individuals, as a country, as a planet, as a species…

© hula seventy