8 maconmagazine.com | APRIL/MAY 2020
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HAT GIVES YOU HOPE? Why does hope matter?
Right now, are you taking the opportunity to do the next
right thing, breathe, focus on what we know and be with your people?
Have you found ways to celebrate, anyway?
Together, we've experienced closings, postponements and
cancellations. Our spirits are shaken. In the midst of this surreal time,
we remain hopeful for what cannot be stifled: our community spirit.
Life feels paused in many places. Yet the narrative is different in
other spaces.
I'm betting you've learned about your partner in a new way. Held
your children longer. Missed your mother a little more. Worried over
your life a lot more. Looked for beauty more than usual. Found new
meaning in an old song. Noticed nature in a new way. Seen people
helping each other. Ached for a hug. Asked how you could help more
than normal. Learned about yourself, including some good and maybe
some not-so-good habits. Hosted a virtual instead of an in-person
gathering, marriage or dance party (me, for my 36th birthday on
March 22!).
I am eager to see the humanity, the truth and the beauty that arises
on the other side of a pandemic. Will it open us to be more of the
people the world is calling us to be?
EDITOR'S LETTER
Do the next
right thing
PHOTOGRAPHY BY JAVE BJORKMAN
Quarantine chic with my children, Kitty and Henry, at a photo shoot featuring pieces of
Wini McQueen's exquisite work in her back yard.
