And Breathe....Self Care in Liminal Space

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And Breathe....Self Care in Liminal Space

So let’s talk about self care, shall we? Let’s go beyond what might immediately come to mind or how Instagram illustrated self care last year. What does self care really mean in 2020, and why is it so important?

We are in an altered reality. We are in the space between. We are in the liminal. We have let go of “normal” and there is a place we are hoping to get to, but no one knows when that will be, or how it will really look. What we know for sure, is that it won’t look like our old normal. And so … we are in the in-between. The threshold between what was … and what will be.

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Art in the Time of COVID-19

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Art in the Time of COVID-19

Last night, as I was preparing to go to sleep, I worried of what I might dream about. We had decided to give ourselves a “COVID Break” that day and we walked 3 miles, worked in the yard, did foot baths and watched an epic film on the power of knowing and telling our story, as well as the power of dreaming. It was the movie ‘Australia'. This blog is not about that movie, but it got me thinking about the pandemic from a different angle. How are we telling the story of this time through the arts? How will we tell it later? What are we dreaming of right now? What parts of ourselves must we sing back to us if we lose them along the way in all of this?

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