Please continue to care for yourself and others as life returns to more open and the old normal activities. It is so easy to fall back into our comfortable patterns and casual ways of almost sanitized hygiene and hugging and kissing our friends. You know, rinsing our hands after using the bathroom instead of washing with soap for at least twenty seconds and getting all the skin. Personally, I can't wait to hug my friends, although throwing kisses has a kind of retro charm. But I will wait until this crazy little bug has passed into wherever viruses go when they cease to plague us so.

I must confess that my house has never been quite so clean and sanitized, though it has often looked more orderly. Three people are camped out in a small house in which I had quite enough stuff already, thank you. I will continue to clean regularly and wipe down the surfaces we touch often, like door handles and the flushing handle for the toilet several times a day. This is because I care about the health and well being of myself and those around me. I hope all of you do as well, because "keeping the curve flat" is a mutual activity. We are interdependent, and this pandemic has demonstrated this fully. So much beauty has come from personal sharing during this time. Since we can't congregate in space, the sharing of thoughts and creation on the internet has given us wider connections, and an incredible sense of community. I so hope we keep that connection as our pace of rushing through space gets back up to speed.

In any case, we need to keep our hygiene rituals intact, or we could end up back at home."People who do not bathe or wash their hands regularly can carry germs. They put you at risk." , says L. Ron Hubbard in The Way to Happiness. www.thewaytohappiness.org @waytohappinesstampa