Welcome to Sunday Stillness, a few minutes each week to meditate on one idea that will bring us closer to who we want to become.

It is the end of March and as much as I would like to feel like I'm moving forward, moving on, have grown and evolved,

my body remembers what it was like this time four years ago at the beginning of the pandemic.

In these first few weeks when we were home,

we were

canceled. It felt like the Twilight Zone. It felt like a bad movie.

It felt so unbelievable to anything that we had known. In our entire

lifetime that I think we're still recovering.

I know we're still recovering in many ways.

And so because I like to mark anniversaries and because I think our body and

and spirit remembers even if we push it away.

I wanted to take this Sunday stillness

to bring up an exercise that maybe will help us continue to heal, help us continue to move on, and also

remember our own history. Because one of the things that I really emphasized in this time,

as we got into April and then into May of the pandemic four years ago.

One of the things that I talked about online a lot at the time

was that we needed to be writing our own history, that we cannot always trust that the

historians or the journalists or even other people's memoirs, the memoirs, that they will capture what it was like for

us, that we will be represented in the way we talk about this piece of history.

And so I really encouraged people back then to take a lot of notes,

whether that's in true journal format, or even just jotting down little things in your

planner on pieces of paper.

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