Don't forget who you are
There is a bird in Australia that has forgotten his song and I am beginning to know how he feels. I have been here, at home, for so long that I wonder if I will lose my song too. A Department of Health email has arrived to say that people who have been shielding can go out in April and, obeying the lockdown rules, we can join the rest of humanity. Of course, I will not rush out I am waiting for my second vaccine, then three weeks after that – well maybe. What will it be like talking to people and being with friends again? There are, of course, online video connections and recently I did my first zoom conference. I ‘met’ some new people who do not know me in real life, and it was exciting. But what will it be like sitting round a table for a discussion? Will we enjoy eating out after making our own meals with our own produce for a year? Maybe, like the poor regent honeyeater bird in Australia, I will have forgotten how to contact others. The honeyeater bird is very rare now. Its...