By Leigh Dolin In March, we travelled from our Burlington home to our condo in Montreal to attend Dorshei Emet’s Purim party. We returned to Vermont the next day and the world shut down. The border closed. The virus was out of control and we didn’t know if we would live or die. It was scary. In times like these, Mr. Rogers said, “Look for the helpers.” And they were everywhere—nurses, doctors, police, firefighters, store clerks, teachers, parents—the list goes on and on. And, isolated in our homes, we found community on Zoom, in smiles and kind words from behind masks, in reaching out and being reached out to. So now we are in the chronic stage—it’s not so scary but it’s frustrating and we are impatient for it to end. What we have we learned? What do we want our world to look like when it’s over? Life is precious. We can find godliness in each other but we must seek it out. There is too much lack of compassion in the world. If the pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that we’re all in this together. And together we must work for a better world, a world where there is no “they” but only “we”.
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