Back in June, Marlo shared this inspiring music video dedicated to everyone \u201cmaking a positive contribution towards the fight against COVID-19.\u201d The video shows people in the many front lines of caring for our communities, from first responders to nurses in PPE to lab technicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today we are doing our umpteenth round of surveillance testing and the room that I would pass and see the beautiful circle of residents raising their legs and arms with Jon and Sara in armchair exercises is once again staffed by diligent nurses and staff who are leading us through the proper protocols of this process of testing that has become so routine for us by now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Like the song sings, many of us feel \u201cbroken down and tired \/ Of living life on a merry go round,\u201d and some days, perhaps especially by the end of our work week, we \u201ccan\u2019t find the fighter.\u201d We feel defeated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is an exhausting struggle we are engaging in and longer than any of us hoped for or anticipated \u2013 we long for an end to this pandemic and all that it\u2019s taken from us and those we love. And until that day, we rise up. Together. Supporting one another, bearing one another\u2019s burdens, even as we also find times of laughing and joy that continue to surprise and give us a burst of strength again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This being human is being resilient. This is something we can learn from many of our residents who have been through so much. And yet, we are all together in this new and different collective trauma of pandemic. All the more reason for us to look around and look beyond our walls to all that are working together to continue rising up, showing up, and caring day after day, week after week. We gonna walk it out, sustained by a power in and beyond our togetherness \u2013 for love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n