The inherent power of Glo-Cal - global and local are not separate or mutually exclusive.
Under quarantine, in isolation or sheltering in place human beings are reaching out across the globe to connect and build communities in ways we have not done in ages.
Due to state and county lock downs many have resorted to supporting local growers and businesses in a variety of creative ways.
Including planting their own edible gardens and re-growing food from usually discarded scraps. Recycling and repurposing what we have instead of trashing stuff all too easily.
Social media, smart phones and online platforms like Google, Skype and Zoom are all blowing up with our need to stay in touch however way we can with family, friends and coworkers.
We manage somehow to congregate in virtual reunions. In the wake of former filial get togethers we come together in alternative options for many life events. Weddings. Funerals. Births. Anniversaries. For lots of occasions and causes.
The crisis and confusion of these past months have brought many together in creative and interesting ways. We manage to cobble up fragmented and multifaceted webs of familiar or strange relations.
In virtual chat rooms all over the world we reach out in interconnectedness. As human beings faced with this deadly pathogen we are made more conscious of daily life choices.
As we gaze into each other, eye-to-eye, smile-to-smile across social distancing may we find a new sense of ourselves as a global humanity living on this incredible planet.
One Earth. One humanity. We are all in this together.
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