Quarantine (not bored) Board

It’s been nearly 2 months since the word “quarantine” started infiltrating every aspect of my thoughts and actions. Ironically, quarantine is derived from the Italian word quaranta - and Quaranta(o) happens to be my mom’s maiden-name. In translation it means forty. (Quarantine -a call to be still for 40 days).

Unlike the word Quaranta - which brings to me the thoughts of love, adventure and connectedness the word Quarantine is weighty and brings with it a feeling of anxiousness, uncertainty and separation.

On the first few days, of separation from my children, grandchildren, family and friends - I was tearful... After all, who likes change forced upon them?

Jobs lost, businesses closing, vacant spots at the dining room table, absent hugs, bills due, trips canceled, people taking ill...

But within days of the sudden stillness, I started to notice a pivoting from the gals with whom I most often communicate. Choosing to re-think and step sideways - into life’s path full of question marks - with abandon and hopefulness, they started to dance into the “what-ifs”. Doing things they’d put-off or never thought to attempt. Artists, visionaries, dynamic women of hope.

Through conversations, we have begun to use new insight into how we may reopen Cornersmiths with the same kind of hopefulness, creativity and open-mindedness as we approached this time on “Pause” in our personal lives.

We will begin to share our new Cornersmiths' ideas in the next few days...as we eagerly come closer to pressing “Play” in a different but eager way.

We’ve been waiting to see your faces - and to hear your stories. In the meantime, please share with us your Quarantine Board - and what you uncovered about yourself during this memorable time...perhaps choosing change rather than letting it choose you.

My words are Pray and Grow...

My quarantine wish list included:

Read and learn

Organize

Walk

Reach out to Family and those in my contact list

(Love Fam Bam)

Work on learning Italian