Note the mask and gloves; Pietro Longhi (btw, a family ancestor)
Susan here, bringing to the blog today an assortment of quotes and thoughts as we all make our way through this peculiar time on Planet Earth.
In our house, we’ve mostly been staying home, not seeing much of family and friends (except virtually! lots of that!). When we go out, it’s to places practicing careful protocols and where the takeout is steaming hot—Chinese and pizza, for example. We’re donning masks and gloves, and keeping physical distance. We’re being good (one of our sons treats covid patients in a major hospital, and boy does that keep us aware and cautious). My husband I are both working at home now—me upstairs with my zillions of books, while IT Guy has taken over the dining room (three or four computers on the oak table that has withstood, over the years, thousands of Legos, crayons, countless holiday dinners—that table can take it).
Being both dedicated introverts, we’re not climbing the walls. Yet.
But now and then, the stress and the strangeness of it creeps in, and I’m turning more and more to things that help me relax, stretch, clear the mind, fill the reserves.
“You used to be much more … muchier. You’ve lost your muchness,” said the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland. And I don’t want to go there, nor do you. Let’s all keep our muchness as we navigate our way through this Fire Swamp (while blithely mixing metaphors). 
I hope you are faring well, and finding your own way through the swamp.
Here are a few of my favorite quotes – and some favorite images – that I hope will brighten your day.
Ramon Casas, Jove
“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
--Jane Austen, Emma
Abbot Handerson Thayer, Angel Waiting
“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all –
--Emily Dickinson
"Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering." –A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
“Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.” —Hermann Hesse
"Peace is always beautiful." -- Walt Whitman
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