When I’m out walking nowadays I usually see somewhere between three to five other people, either walking or driving by.
What a contrast to the “good ole days” of two weeks ago(!), when a Tuesday saw me moving from home to the music office to Master’s Market or Expanding Light for lunch to the mail room to the Temple of Light for choir rehearsal. I could easily encounter a hundred friends in the course of the day!
Now, in order to check in and see how friends are doing, I need to either write, call, video chat, or text. Which means putting it on my to-do list so I don’t completely forget about it in the midst of all the other tasks of my day.
I’ll never take all those brief, spontaneous, joy-filled encounters for granted again.