The $1200 one time payment and the $600 a week in supplemental unemployment income disbursed from April to August gave many people on the lower rungs of the financial ladder the biggest nest-egg they'd ever had.
Many people have focused on gardening, reconnecting with Mother Earth.
Many have, with the closing of gyms, discovered new ways to stay fit. I (Rob) started jogging in the park.
Some creatives, like me (Meryl Ann) have experienced a huge surge of creative output. And that is not unprecedented the flowering of the arts during the Renaissance was spawned by the Bubonic Plague.
The dawn of 2020 seemed to promise clearer vision, and perhaps it was really about clearer inner vision, as many people have discovered deep and valuable treasures from the introspection they were inspired to embark upon during the pandemic.
The loss of the hard core stability of structure offers its own innate gift, and that is the gift of freedom"we are suddenly free to choose a different path, a rare opportunity, as we rebuild our lives.
Charles Eisenstein, in his essay, "The Coronation" writes:
As Covid stirs our compassion, more and more of us realize that we don't want to go back to a normal so sorely lacking it. We have the opportunity now to forge a new, more compassionate normal.
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Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.
Check out his platform at RobKall.com
He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity
He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
opinion sites, OpEdNews.com
more detailed bio:
Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, (more...)