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What Mask Do You Wear?

A few weeks ago my place of worship finally updated it's covid-19 protocols, to make wearing a mask optional. This past week for the first time that I had attended services since this change. It was a strange experience to be in such a public place with so many maskless people.  The crowd at the service was a very small crowd , and I have known everyone who is there for a long time. I know that they have all been very cautious and careful throughout the entire pandemic (and in fact this was one of the last places of worship in my area to stop requiring masks). Yet I still showed up wearing my mask. I was, however oh, the only one.  As I looked around the room at these people that I have known for most of my life, I thought about how well I knew these people; how much I trusted these people; how I knew that every single one of them was fully vaccinated. And I ask myself the question "Why am I still wearing a mask around them?" The truth is, I was more comfortable wearing
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The Great Awakening

(a.k.a. the Pandemic of 2020-21) The spring of 2020 changed everything. As Covid-19 quickly spread around the world so did uncertainty, lockdowns and lots and lots of quiet. As the world of humanity ground to a halt we suddenly had more time and space on our hands than ever before. For some this was a curse; for some a blessing in disguise. What did you do with all of your new free time? Did you bake bread ? Learn to sew? Spend more time with your family? Finally read that novel you had been fiddling with? Spend time reflecting on what is most important to you in life? I did all of these and more, and I loved every minute of it. This is not to say that the Covid-19 pandemic was not a horrible tragedy. Millions of souls have died. Millions more suffered and and some are still suffering as I write this. However, for me, the sudden access to time and space away from people made me aware of a whole side of myself that I had not even known that I had been denying. I am an introvert. Don
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