A safari guide for your own meltdown and tentative enlightenment.
At first, I giggled when I saw all the memes to introverts telling them to check on their extrovert friends during the pandemic. I figured I’d be okay. My childhood was spent on a remote farm in Texas and I was around people rarely, other than school or rodeos. It was a lot of time alone. My life has changed drastically over the last 40 years.
Especially the last twenty years, after moving to the bustling port city of Long Beach, CA. Over the years, I’ve built an independent massage business; volunteered at the Marine Mammal Care Center to feed wild elephant seals and sea lions; led docent tours in an aquatic nursery at Cabrillo Marine Aquarium; participated in tons of non-profit groups and events; and was member of a local tribal belly dance group that performed at art fairs. I mean not all at once, but I’d go out and do things usually with groups of people. I feed off that group energy and now it’s gone. And I am shook.
My life has two sections right now, pre-pandemic and balls deep in this weird global staycation.
The state shut down my massage therapy business March 16, so I knew I was in this for long haul whether I was ready or not. My life has two sections right now, pre-pandemic and balls deep in this weird global staycation. I’ve…
