Every year on Christmas Day, we send our holiday wishes, express our gratitude for the twelve months spent with you, we look forward to seeing you again for a new year. It was not easy this time to overcome the blank page …
Like you, no doubt, the last few months have seemed both short and long. 2020 times two meters?
We too had to adjust, make decisions and take actions that sometimes felt like rolling the dice in semi-darkness. Between slowdowns, stops, restarts, doubts and necessities, we have all stayed the course. We even started to consolidate the crew.
We heard that the COVID-19 pandemic put everyone in the same boat; we have seen this idea challenged. We’re not in the same boat, but we’re going through the same storm – we are not in the same boat, we are in the same storm – can we read in several texts and poems, often inspired by each other, on various sites.
The current situation, globally as well as locally, exacerbates a lot of social and economic inequalities for individuals and communities. We do not all have the same social net, the same solidarity network, the same material resources and skills for the virtualization of work, studies, entertainment and socialization activities. Neither the same age or the same background. In life as in the pandemic, we do not all have the same immunity; we all have vulnerabilities.
The traditional count of December 31 at 11:59 p.m. will not mark the end of the storm. However, New Year’s wishes and resolutions give us the opportunity to influence the rest of the crossing.
May every two meters of hindsight in 2020 give us the perspective that is quickly lost in our instant races. May the beacon of lucidity, health and solidarity light up the coming year.
To you who visit us, read us, comment on us, trust us, from Maizerets to Saint-Sacrement, we wish you a happy holiday season reinvented.
The team of My neighborhood allows itself a few days of rest but reserves you some content of circumstances by January 4, where it will resume the regular pace.
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