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Daily Question, August 10

When was the last time you did something for the first time?

  • Tahsin Tabassum

    I can’t remember, I think I didn’t

  • Nina

    I just moved into a “Tiny House” in February. I am learning to live with less things. I do miss my closet though.

  • Debra

    Today, I participated for the first time in an online magnificent Easter morning service joined in message from various Unity ministries. It was moving. It was enlightening. It was so extraordinarily inspiring and powerful. Blessings and love to you all this Easter Day!

  • reality

    I can’t remember 🙂 reality

  • Malag

    At a small level, not long. I listen to music of a composer where i haven’t heard a work from that composer before. Or I use new software for the first time. Or I eat food I haven’t eaten before. But at a bigger level, a long time. Probably comes with the accumulation of experience over many years!

    Oh, just thought: I did an exercise class on Zoom recently – that’s a first.

  • I have never worked at home so far, I have never used digital platforms to meet colleagues and customers. I am now a teacher or consultant and I use Teams. I started with the lockdown almost 40 days ago. I meet my sisters and cousins ​​on Skype, it's a balm to see them. I attended the Triduum from Rome, listening to the Pope, while I usually sang with my parish choir in the holy celebrations. I met my choir mates on Zoom, we tried to sing, then we invited a friar who spoke of sacred musi...

    I have never worked at home so far, I have never used digital platforms to meet colleagues and customers.
    I am now a teacher or consultant and I use Teams. I started with the lockdown almost 40 days ago.
    I meet my sisters and cousins ​​on Skype, it’s a balm to see them.
    I attended the Triduum from Rome, listening to the Pope, while I usually sang with my parish choir in the holy celebrations.
    I met my choir mates on Zoom, we tried to sing, then we invited a friar who spoke of sacred music, now we are planning to make a musical game …
    So technology is a real gift in these difficult times.

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  • Dar

    Last Wednesday when I saw my Dad on skype from the long term care nursing home he is in, a few weeks ago when we did our very first church zoom and we also did a communion on zoom as well. It was so weird. Talk about weird, my family has started zooming and my. family has never been known to communicate….oh and ..Wearing masks to the grocery store for supplies, and watching people in a very warm community physical distance themselves from each other. Bizarre times.

  • Joni

    In the past week I’ve joined a ZOOM bookclub meeting, What’s App to talk with a friend in New Zealand, and worn a mask to the grocery store. I’m trying to embrace change as I think a multitude of things will change because of Covid-19.

  • Garima

    I think I made dosa aloo for the first time today

  • Jerrie

    Within this past week I posted my reflections on the daily question for the first time. I am grateful I somehow stumbled upon this site a couple of years ago and started journaling to the daily question. Some how have felt the collective wisdom I have found here even more comforting at this time of our lives. May the Universe continue to.bless us all with this virtual companionship.???

  • Melissa

    I have never worked in the garden so long for comfort. Or did Zoom before or talked to my twin brother from 10 feet apart. This is a very strange time.

  • Niv

    I gave a talk online with a Psychiatrist on dealing with uncertainty during the current pandemic. I have never done a talk with a Psychiatrist before online, and it felt great. I am grateful for his humility.

  • Bodhi

    After listening to an old interview of Brother David with Krista Tippet on OnBeing I was touched by many of his reflections and actually wrote them down. Then I decided to search him on Goggle and landed here. I am very grateful for your creating this space which will illuminate my path forward and I am looking forward to offer my open heart for sharing with all. We do not live alone, ever, in any moment we are connected with all that exists.
    Bodhi from New York City

  • Mica

    Last week I sewed my first face mask. I’m giving them to a checker at Safeway who was giving out masks to people who didn’t have them.

  • Nancy Walton-House
    My husband and I attended the December 2019 Christmas in Constantinople Concert by the Cappella Romana Vocal Ensemble from Portland, Oregon. This group is “dedicated to combining passion with scholarship in its exploration of the musical traditions of the Christian East and West, with emphasis on early and contemporary music.” They are superb scholars and singers. Now we’re fans and will attend as many of their local concerts as we can. We also bought one of their CDs so we can listen ...

    My husband and I attended the December 2019 Christmas in Constantinople Concert by the Cappella Romana Vocal Ensemble from Portland, Oregon. This group is “dedicated to combining passion with scholarship in its exploration of the musical traditions of the Christian East and West, with emphasis on early and contemporary music.” They are superb scholars and singers. Now we’re fans and will attend as many of their local concerts as we can. We also bought one of their CDs so we can listen whenever we choose. A second treat was that they performed in Seattle’s beautiful St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church. I went to that church once many decades ago. I really enjoyed visiting there again. It was my husband’s first time in a Greek Orthodox Church. He appreciated the architecture and art as much as I did.

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  • Judy

    About a week ago I spent the entire day in my pajamas, even though I wasn’t sick!!

  • TeriB

    Yesterday, I desperately needed groceries and on-line ordering and pickup is delayed until next Wednesday, so I made a homemade face mask out of a bandana and headed to the grocery store…..something I NEVER thought I’d be doing!

  • BabaYaga

    Yesterday I watched an online Good Friday service that my parish had developed. It included choral music and a reading of the relevant Gospel done at a distance by six parishioners. I found it surprisingly meditative. Three days ago I, too, sewed a couple of masks, one from a man’s shirt, the other from an old linen bedsheets. I was glad that I’d thought to save those bits of fabric in my sewing drawer which became rather bare after a misguided Marie Kondo purging.

    • Palm

      I had planned to recycle my old bed sheets at H&M and kept forgetting. I am so glad now, I used the fabric for my own hand sewn mask.

    • Nancy Walton-House

      We’ve been attending online Holy Week services with great music also. I am so grateful my parish, archdiocese, America – The Jesuit Review and the Vatican make these services available to us. Participating actively helps me find God in the coronavirus pandemic. I feel connected in meaningful ways to so many good people in my faith tradition. I am truly grateful for the technology and people who make these gifts possible. I wish you a Blessed Triduum.

  • Samuel
    Two weeks ago when I set up my late wife's sewing machine and serger and commenced sewing homemade fabric masks for the covid-19 pandemic. Never made masks before. Others and I have since made and donated dozens to my church, which has in turn donated them to the local Health Dept, First Responders, Nursing Homes, etc. Also finished a stole for my Pastor that my late wife started for him almost five years ago before her cancer took her Home. He wore it for Palm Sunday's ZOOM Service for the fi...

    Two weeks ago when I set up my late wife’s sewing machine and serger and commenced sewing homemade fabric masks for the covid-19 pandemic. Never made masks before. Others and I have since made and donated dozens to my church, which has in turn donated them to the local Health Dept, First Responders, Nursing Homes, etc.
    Also finished a stole for my Pastor that my late wife started for him almost five years ago before her cancer took her Home. He wore it for Palm Sunday’s ZOOM Service for the first time…
    Two firsts… sb ??✝

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    • genny dumay

      Great work!

    • BabaYaga

      Lovely! Thank you. I appreciate your positive attitude. As I wrote to Kevin, what many of us experience now is not what we could remotely call “adversity”–read memoirs from Rwanda or the Holocaust for that. At the highest, many of us are just inconvenienced. You have devoted your energies to those who are really in need. Blessings.

      • Samuel
        Thank you, BabaYaga!! I am only one of many ppl at our little church who have found ways of being of service to less fortunate, needy others. Besides masks, some are shoppers, some make calls to older, more vulnerable isolated folk. The church has made monetary and food donations to feed hungry families and maintained operations at the free clinic that we founded and continue to help to sponsor. There is so much need now that we all must step up so we will not be overwhelmed by this covid-19 p...

        Thank you, BabaYaga!!
        I am only one of many ppl at our little church who have found ways of being of service to less fortunate, needy others. Besides masks, some are shoppers, some make calls to older, more vulnerable isolated folk. The church has made monetary and food donations to feed hungry families and maintained operations at the free clinic that we founded and continue to help to sponsor. There is so much need now that we all must step up so we will not be overwhelmed by this covid-19 pandemic…
        sb ✝??

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    • Pilgrim

      Wow, Samuel. Such wonderful, thoughtful responses and fine way to celebrate your wife’s life and creativity.

      • Samuel

        Thank you, Pilgrim, for your kind thoughts. Penny Luv was a wonderful person, loved and missed by many besides me in our little community…
        sb ?

  • Michele

    I cooked bacon in the oven for the first time…. was great, never going back to pan frying.

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