A Nation Of Imagination

Thank goodness we have the internet to help us discover new places to go (someday), to help find a hobby—everyone needs one or two—research your family or your town, buy a jigsaw puzzle and scatter the pieces on top of a table in a heavily traveled area of your home, or take an online course.

Writing about an online course, Harvard University offers free online courses, such as American Government: Constitutional Foundations, learn about Egyptian art, archaeology, at the Pyramids of Giza, Chinese philosophy, Women making history, genetics, various religions, famous musicians, world literature, study Shakespeare history and plays.

Most universities have free online courses available to anyone.

You probably have heard the phrase, “We are all in this together.” Trying to make us feel as if it is some kind of festival instead of a time when thousands are dying of an out of control disease. Maybe the phrase means that we can equally get the virus and depending on your finances be healed.

Meanwhile, taking all precautions that you are capable of doing gets old fast and some get very obsessive with it. That is when you will turn to some of the ideas in previous paragraphs. Opening new doors and learning makes you a more interesting person, you can participate by yourself, and usually your new knowledge sends you off into more directions.

Yes, we try to isolate, but humans and probably animals need others to really live and be happy. Writing letters and sending cards to keep up with friends and relatives makes isolation not so painful.

I love an old Irish saying, “There are good ships, and there are wood ships, and ships that sail the sea, but the best ships are Friendships and may they always be.” To have a friend, you must be a friend. Being kind does not cost a dime.