Life in the time of COVID-19: Lisa B. Ford, Bristol

There have been many adjustments in the COVID-19 world for us all. 

For us, worry for loved ones most at risk— in our family three nurses and a cancer patient— are in our particular daily prayers. Also thinking of small businesses in our communities whom we can't wait to support again and our own livelihoods on hold.

On a happy note, I have been able to pick up my oil pastels with more of a focus on my pleasure creating with them. For someone who normally watches scant TV, I have found on YouTube British talk host Graham Norton's show a hoot and a half of real belly laughs, that feel great. My flower gardens are weeded and mulched in record time this year, and a reclaiming of our vegetable garden is in progress as well. These times do make us feel self sufficiency is an asset we could stand to have more of.

I am rereading "The Great Work of Your Life," which reiterates through historic icons I admire, how to follow my dharma, my heart's course, as they did. Empowerment helps.