Decisions Decisions

Every decision we make in life has consequences.   Now, they can be a matter of life or death.

Do we safely stay at home or in our back yards?

Bloodroot 4-5-20

The bloodroot is blooming.  This is an early spring flower we planted several years ago.  It comes up every year and blooms for a handful of days.  My spouse and are fortunate.  He is retired, but if he hadn't been, he would have been in the thick of this as an essential worker (non medical) with extensive public contact.

I'm still working and am in an essential industry but I am fortunate enough to be able to work at home.  So we are able to stay home.   We own our home and we have a back yard.  It's small.

It's sufficient.

But many have to be working out there, some risking their lives for the rest of us. More, perhaps, than we think.  If you don't go to the store and use a delivery service, you may be risking someone else's life.  That's sobering.   These people's sacrifices help us to make decisions.

My crocuses, 4-4-20

Maybe we can take walks to see spring unfolding.  Maybe we stay at home and work on projects we never had time for.  Maybe we call and talk to relatives who are isolated in one way or another.

And maybe we take a minute before judging by appearances.  I am guilty of that myself.

Those people not keeping social distance? Well, my autistic brother, who lives in supportive housing, isn't allowed to go anywhere, for the duration, without a staff member present.   Or that person who seems to be in the supermarket several times a week? Perhaps that person is doing shopping for elderly family members, or elderly neighbors.

We all have to make decisions.  I had a bizarre (well, it would have been bizarre in other times) visit from a family member today, because she made a good decision.  She called us from her car, and we came out and talked to her on the phone.  Us on the sidewalk, her in her car parked next to our house. We could see each other but not touch.  This woman has a physical issue that makes it difficult to walk and she also has several health issues that make her high risk.

She chose not to expose herself to us, or vice-versa.

Why was she out?  Well, she had just come from the cemetery with her husband.  They were visiting her mother's grave.  Her elderly Dad, who is in her 80's, was there at the gravesite, too. They came in separate cars and visited, keeping distance again, with each other.  Both of these people are very social people.  It must have been so hard to be so close, and yet so far.

This is our world now, though.

Each decision we make keeps ourselves and others healthy.  Or not.

Let's each decide wisely.

Tomorrow, it's back to the Blogging from A to Z Challenge.  My theme is "America the Beautiful".  I hope you've enjoyed my posts so far.