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Lockdown Rediscovery Challenge
Rediscovering Simple Pleasures
When your world shrinks to the “essentials,” you remember the value of simplicity
I dislike the words lock-down, quarantine, and ordered to stay at home. I prefer to think of it as socially-acceptable solitude.
I was challenged by Bob Jasper to think about three things I’d “rediscovered” in the past month or so — clearly, none of those things involves a calendar, and I’m not eager to “rediscover” what day of the week it is, or what time it is, any time soon.
In truth, this past five, six, seven weeks have not involved the kind of solitude I’d expected, from my first month of retirement, and I’m not sad about that. It’s the most time I’ve spent, alone with my husband, ever. Between work, school, two children, and vacations mostly spent with our family, or shorter “get-aways” for two — even our honeymoon was just a three-day weekend! — we’ve never had five or six weeks together, just us. And it’s nice. We’re at a place in our lives and careers where…
