By Meryl Ann Butler and Rob Kall
We're writing this article/open thread to acknowledge the difficulties of 2020, but also to encourage our community members to showcase and list some of the blessings and gifts this year brought, and we invite you to share any of the gifts and blessings you have encountered, in the comments.
So many people have been touched by so many deaths or are living with the long term effects of Covid-19-- damaged lungs, cardiovascular systems, brain-fog, fevers, lost of the senses of taste and smell.
Others have lost their jobs or their businesses because of forced closings or restricted access. Many are facing eviction.
The pandemic also unleashed a new collection of conspiracy theories"which can be good or bad, but certainly encourages out-of-the-box thinking and problem solving as we take steps to figure things out.
Covid-19 has changed our world, in some ways, permanently.
A year ago, school shootings were the norm"but one of the blessings of the pandemic is that kids can't be shot at school if they are studying from home, and that cycle is likely permanently broken. If the only cosmic reason for the pandemic was to prevent kids from being murdered at school and to break that cycle, it would have been worth it, but there's much more to be grateful for.
For many, the forced time at home has inspired them to become more creative than ever, raising their creative output, learning new skills, discovering new ways to express their imagination.
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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, debillionairizing the planet (more...)
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