Category Archives: Health

Forest Bathing

                               

A life-changing trauma I experienced six months before COVID struck was compounded by quarantining. Ragged remnants remain for all of us, but as 2020 recedes, we cling to hope and embrace new, healthy habits that will hopefully extricate us from our despair. Typically, as a new year begins, doctors, pastors, and loved ones offer strategies for ridding us of old, destructive habits. Newspaper columns and magazine articles abound with advice.
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Living Undercover—COVID-19 Masks

Local Lives in a Global Pandemic: Stories from North Central Florida

For the next hundred years, say “2020” and everyone’s first thought will be the same: COVID-19.

The word evokes the collective experience of those lucky enough to have survived it—Worry, depression, loneliness. Overwhelmed, we watched the news, full of dismal tidings edging around the pandemic: Black Lives Matter marches, hijacked by rioters and looters; horrific wildfires and destructive hurricanes and flooding; Politics that reached new lows.
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