Hi - how are you??

Unexpected Things are not always welcome - who would have thought some months ago that we would find ourselves in a situation which almost none of us have experienced before here in Europe: A virus has stopped our daily lives as we used to know them, took them for granted and thought it would be like this for ever and ever. And now this.

As so many of us I am working from home and am surprised that one can in fact do a lot in a very effective way - I keep in touch with my few colleagues, calling them to hear how they are and have started to organise myself in a different way, my lists keep me up to date so that I will be not too much behind once I am back in the office, mails are replied to and I even have a coffee while chatting with a colleague on the phone.

We are all in the same boat, and it is amazing to see how unpersonal contacts via mail get a touch of humanity and kindness again and again. So we are humans after all.... I do not feel - until now - really stressed, even if I can see that my youngest son is missing his friends and the opportunity to get out and about. To be very honest, I am almost grateful to have a breather, the last months had been too exhausting and there was little hope of things slowing down. But now they do slow down, if we want or not.

There are some modifications in my life which I really find even comfortable: I wake up an hour later than normal and hear birds sing. I have not to rush to the office in a horrible traffic jam every day. I started to cook again for my son and me. I sit and chat with friends and children and family on the phone, instead of Whatsapping once in a while. I have started again to listen to music at home. I plan even to tackle this still slumbering cupboard which has never been arranged since I moved in this flat, but the stuff just literally dumped in there and I had never a moment of peace or the energy to start sorting it out. I could do it now, while I have to stay at home anyway and find ways to occupy myself. Like shopping in one's own wardrobe - I could find things I did not even remember I had?

Cleaning a kitchen cupboard is also almost therapeutic: at least something is under control.

And, perhaps, let's see, start to write a little post here and there again, on this and that and nothing at all. Why not. One always has to see the good in everything, always. Especially when one is wondering what is going on in our world.

So, let's see what might still be hidden in this old handbag here....