Summary
How can worshippers come together during religious holidays during the coronavirus pandemic? Our latest #COVIDKindness update.
Then, a story about how a friend's kind act assured a woman in a painful struggle that she would make it through the darkness.
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| 0:00.0 | Produced by the I Lab at W-B-U-R, Boston. |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome to Kind World. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Andrea Aswahay. |
| 0:13.4 | And I'm Yasminammer. |
| 0:14.8 | So I know we're all grieving something |
| 0:17.5 | during our time in isolation. |
| 0:19.5 | Andrea, is there anything that you were particularly looking forward to that might have gotten canceled because of this pandemic? |
| 0:26.8 | Yeah, I'm really bummed my choir concerts for the spring were canceled. It was going to be a big like 10th anniversary concert |
| 0:34.5 | series so I'm really bummed about that. But honestly what I'm most sad about is |
| 0:38.9 | that I had to cancel my trip home to Florida to see my parents and my brother. I'm hoping that I could maybe do it sometime the summer, but I'm obviously I'm not sure if that's going to happen. |
| 0:51.6 | Yeah, so around the conversation of family and friends, |
| 0:55.0 | this is where I'm really struggling too. |
| 0:57.0 | So next week, we're marking Ramadan, |
| 1:00.0 | which is the Muslim holiday where you fast for 30 days sunrise to sunset |
| 1:05.0 | and it sounds really hard because it is, but I really do love it. |
| 1:09.0 | And that's because at the end of each day, break fast with other people almost every night |
| 1:15.2 | we're at someone's house sharing a meal and it's just hands down the most |
| 1:19.0 | social time of the year for me. So you remember last year I actually invited some of our coworkers for an |
| 1:24.2 | Iftar dinner and I really wanted to do that again. So Yasmin I know that you're |
| 1:29.9 | bummed but I also know that you are not alone. |
| 1:34.0 | There are so many people who are worshiping during Easter and |
| 1:39.0 | Passover and Ramadan, and they're doing it on their own in isolation and they're feeling that pain. |
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