Many of us are spending time on Zoom. The ability to meet with people we cannot be with is one step toward creating community. Whether it is work related, or staying in touch with our adult kids, or to honor a birthday it is a manageable path to communicating. 

 

The marriage group we have been part of for over four years has made the leap from living rooms with a cup of tea to little pictures on the screen. The backlog of shared history goes a long way toward helping us sail over the niceties and talk about what is up. We have seen one another through surgeries, job changes, health set backs, and just plain routine annoyance. But the joys are there as well. Pregnancy and birth, a wedding renewal, and great family vacations make our visits brighter. There were nights we unloaded our own angst about Ben, as well as times we had to rush out the door on his behalf. 

 

The other night in our post meeting text chat we sent around pictures of our couplehood from ten or twenty or forty years ago. The changes in hair style, and fashion added charm to the earlier versions of ourselves. No doubt we have morphed on the insides just as much. 

 

A coworker is hosting an online event next week. It will delve into the intricacies of weathering the stay at home order with people we live with. I mean we love each other... but without any absence how can the heart grow fonder? Feel free to join it and see if the virtual company of others in the same dilemma as yourself offers comfort.