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Our sense of space and space. We
has also changed, reshape our
as we engage in Novel Coronavirus suddenly blank
a type of voluntary schedules,
confinement has changed our lives and find we can
— solitary for dramatically this year make better
some, but a little use of our time;
crowded for those in ways we couldn’t we repurpose
of us with young have expected… spaces in our
families. The Public homes for work,
Library is closed to or worship. We’re
the public. We can forced into an
no longer browse at now sitting in the park to chat, intentionality that,
Lighthouse Books, and Kathryn properly distanced. Local if we embrace it, can
tells me that routine calls churches are offering recorded make our “new normal” an
to order books have turned sermons and emailed prayers, improvement on the past,
into longer conversations, as but it isn’t the same from despite its challenges. And if
people seize the opportunity home, alone. we are as intentional about
to just talk to someone. Lola’s understanding the different
Coffee House offers takeout, In the before times, our challenges of our neighbours,
but the regulars came for more lives were shaped by we can maintain some
than the coffee; Tracy says time and space; now, we sense of community, even in
that they’re starting to return, must shape our own time isolation. l

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