A Time to Pause...

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/science/coronavirus-curve-mitigation-infection.html

Our healthcare system was stretched to capacity before COVID-19 emerged. Our isolation and the fact that all other states and the rest of the world are dealing with the pandemic mean that additional resources are either nonexistent or will be slow in coming. Our population is very vulnerable by virtue of age, underlying conditions and the influx of visitors from all over the world. The best approach for us is limiting the spread of the virus through social distancing.

Updates as of March 31, 2020

Today: ​​

• Updated Upcoming Events to reflect changes due to COVID-19
• Added a page regarding COVID-19​

Pandemic
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What if you thought of it
as the Jews consider the Sabbath--
the most sacred of times?
Cease from travel.
Cease from buying and selling.
Give up, just for now,
on trying to make the world
different than it is.
Sing. Pray. Touch only those
to whom you commit your life.
Center down.

And when your body has become still,
reach out with your heart.
Know that we are connected
in ways that are terrifying and beautiful.
(You could hardly deny it now.)
Know that our lives
are in one another’s hands.
(Surely, that has come clear.)
Do not reach out your hands.
Reach out your heart.
Reach out your words.
Reach out all the tendrils
of compassion that move, invisibly,
where we cannot touch.

Promise this world your love--
for better or for worse,
in sickness and in health,
so long as we all shall live.
--Lynn Ungar 3/11/20