During the past few months we’ve been forced to slow down, cancel our weekly get togethers, choir practices and visits with family. We’ve coined the term six feet of separation and have learned to interpret it into our own six degrees of connection.
We may not all be going into the woods as Henry David Thoreau wrote about in Walden, but we are distancing, being more thoughtful and living more intentionally, experiencing life in new ways for ourselves, our families, our community and connecting differently.
Thoreau did something similar writing in Walden, “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach…”
Today it’s learning how to Zoom, catching up on the phone more often, gathering outdoors at a distance, and learning and searching for meaning and understanding in ways we never imagined.
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