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In a heartbeat life as we know it has changed. I’ve always felt an urgency around climate change, yet the global pandemic put us face to face with our survival. And nobody is excluded from this reality, including me. For eight years, I’ve gone without so much as a sniffle––and I’ve been waving the banner of plant-based health like there’s no tomorrow. It has been empowering to be in my 50s and feel like the energizer bunny!
Yet in late January, I went down hard. With pneumonia! I felt vulnerable and humbled, as I struggled to recover, to parent my teens, and to keep my world running. It was heartbreaking to isolate from my new grandbaby and daughter-in-law. And as COVID-19 spread across the globe, I had to surrender to the fact that I was now in the “high risk” group with my recovering lungs and immune system. And I don’t particularly like to surrender. Nope.
Yet this has been a time like no other. Many of us are in real crisis, having been laid off from our jobs, losing our security, or facing the sickness of loved ones or ourselves. Many are working from home, re-evaluating life choices, cleaning closets, looking at our world through the window and knowing things must change. Others are heroically showing up for “essential work,” growing food, part of the transportation chain and tending to the sick.
All the while, pollution is down 17%, we are appreciating birdsong, walking in streets that were once busy with traffic and spending time cooking and eating with family. How can we see this global “pause” as a moment to transform to a new world?
In the spirit of radical change and caretaking each other and the Earth, I look forward to sharing my new Sit Rep, short for the "situation report", once a month with you.
Love,
Suzy
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