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What do you do with the fear that you feel?

We snuck away to play in the snow last week before I began to truly understand the impact of Coronavirus in the US. The image above is actually a screenshot of a hilarious video Oakley made of me. I looked back to say “I’m a little nervous!” before I flew off down the hill, screaming all the way.

The COVID-19 pandemic started out as no big deal in my mind.

In my naivete, it felt like it was happening so far away, it wouldn’t get to us, so safely tucked away here in the United States. And even if it did, we would be so prepared, we’d all be fine. I made choices aligned with that uninformed way of thinking for quite a while.

When we know better, we do better.

But let’s be clear, knowing better and being better informed, will certainly not take away the fear that we’re feeling. The rapid-fire …

What will you do?

Last night I watched this clip from 1969 of Mr. Rogers defending public broadcasting at a Senate hearing. He was advocating for government funding of shows, like his, that encouraged and inspired children to be kind, generous and always growing on the inside. He specifically renounced the violence of the cartoons that were being fed to children depicting angry characters hitting each other over the head with pots and pans, rather than controlling their reactions. Citing his grave concern for our lack of teaching kids “the good feeling of control”, he asked to share the words to one of the songs he wrote to give children a tool in the middle of their heated moments of anger.

What do you do with the mad that you feel?

What do you do with the mad that you feel
When you feel so mad you could bite?
When the whole wide world …

What do you do with the fear that you feel?

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