When asked, “ How are you?”, I often want to say, “I feel like I am a yo-yo.” In the spring, yo-yo referred to learning about Covid, and how to protect myself and my family. The news was full of too many people dying in isolation and then I would notice another flower blooming, the grass turning green, and hear kids playing outside. Thru the summer the yo-yo was coping with heat, more dreadful news, and then news and events that lifted my spirits. How can I feel both happy and sad at the same time? Or grief and joy simultaneously? Or depression and contentment together? These Covid days are teaching me, and encouraging me to practice more my coping mechanisms. How about you?
