There is so much hate being spewed toward our President and his administration STILL, even with our common worldwide crisis. So, I wanted to focus on something else. Gratitude. I am grateful for technology. Technology has allowed scientist and doctors to move forward in working through the virus. Technology has allowed businesses to hold virtual meetings and have employees work from home, and teachers still teach both in college and K-12 school. Technology has allowed us to reach each other worldwide while confined to our homes. I am grateful for teddy bears popping up in windows to relieve the stress for a few moments of children and parents. I am grateful for people in apartments that lean out windows and stand on balconies and make beautiful music together. I am grateful for policeman that drive down streets and then abruptly stop, jump out of their cars and serenade those in their houses on the street. I am grateful for musicians, country, classical, opera, Broadway, and high school, for using technology to provide concerts for all of us sitting at home. I am grateful to truckers, grocery store workers, transportation companies, television and radio staff and talent, mechanics, construction workers, restaurants and delivery companies, on line companies that are still providing necessities, post office and FedEx and UPS, all still working to keep us in a bit of the luxury of our time. I am grateful to companies that are stepping up to provide medical equipment by refurbishing their assembly lines. I am grateful to fabric companies working with citizen volunteers to have what they need to sew masks. I am grateful for fast food establishments providing free meals to children out of school. I am grateful for cafeteria workers and bus drivers that are getting food to children delivered on their streets. I am grateful to online companies that are providing their conferencing to teachers for free. I'm grateful for companies that are non-essential, and had to send their employees home; however, they have chosen to keep them on the payroll. I am grateful to youth who tend to the needs of elderly so that they don't have to leave the house and go among the populace. I'm grateful to mayors, governors, presidents of all countries that are trying to keep their communities safe, even if it means confining people to their homes. I'm grateful to leaders who come before the public and try to reassure the public, who know how to bring hope and optimism into lives. I'm grateful to public figures that once they are diagnosed with the virus, stand up in the media to be examples. I'm grateful to public figures that use social media to show that they are in their homes, and encourage others to do the same. I'm grateful for doctors, nurses, nurses aids, hospital works from the administrators to the every single one of the staff. They have stood firm, through hard ships that many have never seen before, world-wide. Gratitude. There is so much for which to be grateful during this world wide crisis. However, people are good. And, it shows. I'm grateful for this world, complete with it's imperfectness, in every way!! And to what are you grateful?
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5/15/2020 01:11:38 am
Courage is found in our hearts and there are battles that we needed to win so that we may move on to the next level. A level that will test our skills and we can all do it if we are united. Unity is powerful and we can do what is needed and comply to the requirements so that the result will be great. This crisis has been hard for us and we just need to believe that there is still hope in the middle of these problems and just hold hands with our heads held high.
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