Here in my home province of Ontario we have been under stay-at-home orders for the past month. It\u2019s a relatively soft version of a stay-at-home mandate, and certainly doesn\u2019t compare to an Italian equivalent from early in the pandemic or an Australian \u201cemergency brake\u201d equivalent today, but it\u2019s still enough to keep us from venturing too far from home or from interacting much with others. Thankfully the orders are slowly being lifted in different regions and that includes ours as of Tuesday. That said, the restrictions will only get moderately lighter, at least initially. It has been quite a stretch!<\/p>\n
We are often asked, \u201cHow are you?\u201d or \u201cHow\u2019s it going?\u201d Those are very North American ways of greeting one another and the trouble is that when people say the words some mean simply \u201chello\u201d while others mean, \u201ctell me what\u2019s going on in the depths of your heart and soul.\u201d So we have a couple of answers\u2014the more cursory version for those who mostly just meant to greet us and the more in-depth version for those who are asking something more. We are still looking for the right way to express that we think we are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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