Do you know what your family members are up to during the new normal?
Reconnecting with family members during the COVID-19
lock down has been a great experience for me. I wrote about it in the post:
How Many Families Will COVID-19 Bring Together?
I’ve been trying to stay productive since I live in
California, and we’re on a stay-at-home order. Our Governor (Gavin Newsom) is
not messing around with this virus. KUDOS to him!
Since I’ve been reconnecting with different family
members, I’ve been reminded just how creative and talented that so many of them
are.
I’m discovering what things some of my out-of-state
family is doing to keep themselves busy. It’s been so much fun, reconnecting
and seeing what they’re up to, I decided to share it with all of you.
Creative
Family Member
My sister Charletta lives in Chicago, and she’s off
work from her job until the end of May. So while her eldest daughter in North
Carolina is pondering what to plant in her garden, Charletta has been pulling
out boxes of all her old poetry.
Letta is an older diva like me, so trust me when I say
it’s been decades since she broke out the treasure trove of poetry that she
wrote in another lifetime.
While I’ve always been the writer in the family,
Charletta’s creativity has always been singing (although she was also quite the
dancer in her day).
She
wasn’t interested in making a video, so the most I could do was convince her to
recite the poems in an audio file, then I added some images, like a slide show.
Creativity
at Work
We put a little creativity to work and had fun
laughing over the project we put together. The poems cover the period both
before, and during the time her and my brother-in-law were raising their four
daughters, who now have families of their own.
Some of the poems she read me, I’d already heard her
recite, way back when, and some I had never heard.
I have to admit, she showed a lot of maturity in her
writing, even at an early age, especially with the more-weighty subjects. Like
most young teen girls or women coming into adulthood, she wrote a lot of poetry
about love and relationships.
Introducing
Letta B.
One of my favorites was the one you can read if you
follow the link below. It’s called “A House a Little Out of Hand” and it’s
funny and very relatable.
Though it was written long before the covid virus, it
undoubtedly applies to a lot of households today. In fact, every parent (especially moms) can
relate to the house in this poem.
I hope you enjoy it, and if you do, don’t hesitate to
let the author know, by clicking the LIKE button on Youtube, and share it with
someone else (preferably another mother).
You can take advantage of the time we find ourselves
living in, whether you’re already close to your family members, or you have
trouble maintaining a connection with them, for one reason or another.
COVID-19 has proven to us, that there is no such thing
as “going back to normal” so start thinking about what you want your new normal
to look like, and who you want to have in it.
Is there anyone missing from it? Then check in and
connect with them. You may not be able to connect with everyone you want, but
at least you’ll know you tried.
DEAR READERS:
Since the writing of this particular story, a lot has happened and I invite you to visit my Justiss Goode pen name and Medium profile and read some of my recent personal essays and miscellaneous life lessons that I know you will enjoy and benefit from.
