This three columned list* has helped me deal with fear and anxiety,

Now is the time to communicate value. 

The question is then, when is something valuable?

It's ok to be scared.

It's also ok to be excited.

Humans are sign readers.*

We read signs to find our way, whether in traffic or in life.

Liminal spaces build community, they force people together in order to survive.

What are you feeling right now as you read this?

Fear?

To write or not to write about Corona, that is the question....

Two things are necessary, a realisation of the severity of the situation and hope that we will survive it.

A simple practice, that deserves repeating, which a child psychologist friend of ours teaches the kids that come to see her (It's helpful for adults too, maybe even more so).

Here is a breathing practice to help instantly calm you down. I've been using this one for a few years especially before a big talk, and I've taught it to my kids as well.

As South Africa is now officially being locked down (so to speak) due to the Corona Virus, these two pieces came across my path in the last week. The first is by C.S. Lewis, author of the Narnia Chronicles, and the second by the reformer Martin Luther.

Human beings are conscious. We know that we are here, we know that we are going to die. We know that danger lurks, I'm pretty sure neither of my dogs is worried about COVID-19, load shedding, or the economy.

The 3 hardest things to say are:

I'm sorry,
I forgive you,
and Worcestershire sauce.

Fasting, not as a way to lose weight or boost your ketones but as a practice has been around for millennia in just about every spirituality.