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Sasha

guys be safe and don't be alone

throughout isolation - if u need help

call up ! gotta stay as a community

throughout the shit xx

Ghaith
Yep, this was one of the reasons we
started this collective in the first place

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Amanda

➦ Forwarded

"Lockdown.
Yes, there is fear.
Yes, there is isolation.
Yes, there is panic buying.
Yes, there is sickness.
Yes, there is even death.

But they say that in Wuhan after so many years of noise,
you can hear the birds again.
They say that after just a few weeks of quiet,
the sky is no longer thick with fumes, but blue and grey and clear.
They say that in the streets as Assisi people are singing to each other
across the empty squares, keeping their windows open,
so that those that are alone may hear the sounds of family around them.
They say that a hotel in the west of Ireland is offering
free meals and delivery to the housebound.
Today, a young woman I know is busy spreading flyers with her number
through the neighbourhood so that the elders may have someone to call on.
Today, churches, synagogues, mosques and temples are preparing to welcome
and shelter the homeless, the sick, the weary.

All over the world people are slowing down and reflecting.
All over the world people are looking at their neighbours in a new way.
All over the world people are waking up to a new reality.
To how big we really are.
To how little control we really have.
To what really matters.
To love.

So we pray and we remember that yes, there is fear,
but there does not have to be hate.
Yes there is isolation, but there does not have to be loneliness.
Yes there is panic buying, but there does not have to be meanness.
Yes, there is sickness, but there does not have to be disease of the soul.
Yes there is even death, but there can always be a rebirth of love.

Wake to the choices you make as to how to live now.
Today breath.
Listen.
Behind the factory noises of your panic the birds are singing again.
The sky is clearing.
Spring is coming, and we are always encompassed by love.
Open the windows of your soul and though you may not
be able to touch across the empty square...
sing."

George
I want a cuddle so much
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