So many parents have had to return to work, including teachers who had been teaching on zoom.  And the children, who have been deprived of school, of friends, of clubs, are now home alone without parents.  I’m thrilled that people are going back to work, that the recently impoverished families may regain a modicum of normality.

But oh those lonely children – I am certain they will recover, and perhaps with more enthusiasm than ever when they return to their social environment.  But as a grandmother, my heart is breaking over every one of my seven grandchildren who are all suffering from various results of the covid virus.

From the oldest to the youngest, a lack of fulfillment, of completion