If you’re willing, I’d like to hear how the Coronavirus, quarantining, or the stay-at-home mandates across the world have directly affected your life. Record yourself telling your story, upload it to YouTube, and email the link to me at edeekulper@gmail.com and I’ll post it here on this blog.
It would be so helpful to hear the story of how the virus played out in your system. It would be cathartic to tell how shutting down your business is affecting you. It would be healing for others to hear how they aren’t alone.
Every time I think of a profession that involves people interacting, touching, or being in each other’s space, I want to hear the stories that are happening out there. Did your life come to a stand-still? Are you working directly with people who are sick and it threatens you? Were you already sick and needing treatment in a now-full hospital? Are you continuing to produce things for mass consumption? Are you in a business that’s booming because it’s a major necessity at the moment? Are you in an “essential” business that puts you more at risk with each day that you continue? Were you just on the verge of starting a new career or phase of life and it has been abruptly paused? How are you handling it, for better or worse? Not shiny answers; just the hard, real truths so that I and other people can listen to you, hope for you, pray for you, reach out to you, align with you, cry with you, and learn from you.
Doctors, dentists, surgeons, teachers, NASA, staff on the Mercy Ships, women giving birth, cancer patients who need regular treatment, anyone in government, anyone in the military, couples getting married, restaurant owners, real estate agents, professional athletes, sports organizers, actors, musicians, singers, comedians, performers, dance teachers, counselors, high school seniors, grad students, traveling tourists, adoption agents, orphanages, elder-home managers, missionaries, workers in homes of trafficked children, mortgage brokers, financial advisors, massage therapists, manicurists, bread bakers, taxi drivers, movie makers, movie theater owners, ski resort workers, casino employees, film festival organizers, owners of small businesses that are not sought out right now, you name it, you’re on my mind.
If it can help in any way, especially in a way that I can’t imagine, I would like to post your story.
