Something I posted in one of my private groups

 I am grateful that I am actually living here with my daughter for the time being - they are trying their best to keep me protected and safe (high risk with my asthma and heart) - so I'm glad that I don't have to venture out. However, I've found this to be a comforting Lenten and Easter season. I have so much more access to mass, compline, and adoration due to the livestreaming of our local parish, the local Dominican sisters, my former parishes, and the Abbeys and Shrines that I feel connected with around the world. All of this livestreaming wasn't available before...I can even tune in and pray a nightly rosary with a dear friend in another state. Why weren't we doing this before? Anyway, I think of the people around the world who have no access to the sacraments - or who are actually persecuted for their faith - and I can do this. This living arrangement is for only a year at most - I'd prefer to figure out where I'll be moving next sometime during the summer. Keeping you all in my prayers because it can still be lonely. I try not to think about the "what ifs and what should have beens" - instead, I am trying to use this time to get "me" in order: studies - both in my faith and my personal interests (even honing my teaching skills because I'm preparing my high school biology lessons for my elementary level grandchildren via Skype) and in putting things in "order" around me. A kind of a "spring cleaning" of my soul.