Looking

With the size of the COVID-19 pandemic, I’ve found it hard to look directly at the challenges ahead.

I’ve found it equally hard to look away from it.

Where do you look when both looking and looking away cause anxiety?

I think it best, in these months of preparation, to define specific parameters around my looking. I commit to reading, watching, engaging with the news and the coming hurdles.

But after sufficient time, I commit just as hard to engaging with other things – music, certainly, but also cooking, walking, reading for pleasure. Anything that can occupy enough of my mind to tune out the stresses of the day.