Today I’m going a few miles away to pick up a special package. I’m very excited to get it. It is going to be a large, colorful, over-brimming package and it only cost me $20. When I ordered the package online, the website also gave me the opportunity to share the joy, by purchasing and sending one of these amazing packages to someone else. My package is going to be over-brimming with fresh fruits and vegetables, grown by my local farmers. The other package will be headed to a local food pantry. I love the idea of being able to support and to nourish my family, nourish other families, and also, our wonderful farmers, in such a simple and easy way. While my link is a local link, I understand that this program is happening in many cities, all over the United States. Google “Farm Fresh” to see what is available in your area. While this coronavirus situation is indeed, very, very painful, the silver linings that have come with it, are plentiful. In fact if you took all of these threads of silver linings, such as more rest and quiet time, the healing moments for the Earth, the long, lingering family dinners, and the pure appreciation of the simpler things in life, you could probably make quite a pretty, shiny silver scarf. When the vaccine is developed and all of this fiasco is put to rest, we could all still wear our shiny silver scarves, from time to time, as lovely reminders that even the worst of times, have lovely, glimmering, sparkling gifts of hope and joy and peace, to offer.
