Happy Easter Monday

So strange.
Yet wow, a lot of time to contemplate this situation and hopefully look at the over all picture of things.

I happened to watch the Live stream of the Good Friday Mass at St. Peters of the Passion of Christ mass.

It was on in the background while I was sewing.

This Homily stood out to me. It connected to our present state and had a good attempt at explaining the meaning behind it all.

Click on the transcript here, it is long but I do like it! I think many can relate to at least some of it and hopefully be a bit comforted.

"While he was painting frescoes in St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, the artist James Thornhill became so excited at a certain point about his fresco that he stepped back to see it better and was unaware he was about to fall over the edge of the scaffolding. A horrified assistant understood that crying out to him would have only hastened the disaster. Without thinking twice, he dipped a brush in paint and hurled it at the middle of the fresco. The master, appalled, sprang forward. His work was damaged, but he was saved."

Another thing that was Beautiful yesterday was Andrea Boccelli's Easter Concert for Hope.
It may not be everyone's thing but skip to minute 19:25 and on.....
Just seeing the drone shots of many big Italian cities ...then all the shots of the cities around the world.
This has really brought the world to a halt. Watching this part brought me to tears once again (as I do occasionally when I succumb to feeling overwhelmed by this) at the thought of the whole world stopping for this, together, and imagining how it would have sounded in Milan if they broadcast this concert loud into the empty streets.




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On another beautiful note:

Saturday I had the privilege once again to visit Positano, Italy!

(Btw my parents are from Philippines, but I feel like my soul is Italian! But even though my savory taste buds are Italian, my sweet taste buds are French).

I did a walking tour of Positano and it was amazing! Practically retracing my exact steps, I could feel the fresh sea air, the beaming sun on my skin, and it didn't kill my legs this time!
I did this all while folding laundry of course.






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So lucky to have travelled here, twice. And I'm pretty thankful for all the places I have had the chance to experience. It was fun revisiting places I have been and sharing this with the bf. We revisited Costa Rica, and he took me to Spain, and I took him to Guatemala. ha !

Hope everyone had a wonderful Easter and is keeping safe and Healthy!

WFH

For a while now I wondered what Working from Home would look like for me. Especially since I see patients, there really is no 'work from home' technically with what I do, unless I take patients to my house.

I partially envied people I know that were able to do this.
Only because I thought of it as a nice break from the routine and getting to work in a chill environment and not having to commute, not that I have a long commute.
I say only partially envy because I wondered how they could even get up in the morning and motivate themselves when they work from home. I felt I had no self discipline to even get up on time or focus and not taking a billion food and maybe tv or internet breaks as well.

Now with what is going on in the world more than ever we are all faced, if we can, to work from home.
I've had vacay when this all started but I'm back in clinic getting things done!
I finished a whole list of how working from home looks like for my coworker and I and ..... I am excited!

In fact, it helps to ease the anxiety, frustration and agitation of the question "how long will we have to do and live like this?!" to thinking "wow! I have more time to do all the other things that I could not finish because I was seeing all these patients a day, but now I can focus! And I hope to have all our projects done when this is over..... in fact, I think .... I hope I have enough time to get all this done!"

Well I am excited at the prospect of things coming together for my department. It is funny how a lot of people are forced to change their perspective on things due to the catastrophic pandemic, but we can still find a way to see that the future still kinda looks bright!

I hope everyone is safe at home. I also figured that if anyone were to be back at work its best it should be me. I do not have anyone to pass on infection if I get it. Hopefully we will all get through this stronger and more blessed.