Livre d'Or

I am not back in the office until at least late August (and I suspect quite a bit longer than that, or only sometimes while mostly working at home for a while to reduce density in the building.) I'm very grateful work is being really cautious about this.

I wear a mask when I'm anywhere other than my immediate (quiet residential) neighborhood (I have asthma, so if I'm walking at a pace for exercise, the mask affects my inhale enough to be an issue). That includes going out to the busier main streets near me, or the bike path. I have a couple of masks with silk or linen coming to see if that helps with some of the heat issues.

I am doing all my shopping by delivery (I tip generously), but will be starting a CSA pickup next week (with good distancing in place).

I am trying to figure out what my religious community stuff looks like medium and long-term, which is complicated (religious witchcraft coven: we are meeting on about our usual schedule by web chat, but there are things that do not work that way).

Specifically, there is one important but not calendar-linked ritual piece - initiation - that cannot be done remotely, and my current group of students is getting to a point where we'd ordinarily be looking at thinking about that sometime around August or September. So it's the question of "Do we postpone that indefinitely, which has some consequences" or do we figure out how to do a very carefully managed and coordinated gathering of me and them (of necessity in my apartment) with as many precautions as can be managed and what the criteria are to do that.

(My sort of baseline minimum requirements are 'I am back in the office regularly, and local guidance permits small gatherings inside as a thing people can do with some precautions' but there's some nuance about what that looks like. It's possible there may be a smallish window in which those things are true before things change again, so I want to be able to make plans promptly if the option is available.)

My mother (84, lives in a mother in law unit in my brother's house) makes occasional noises about how I could go there if I got sick, which I keep going "Oh, gods, no, Mom" about in slightly less direct terms, but I do not see her in person more than every couple of months normally. (We are talking on the phone more often, but .. well, it was about once a year before.) Mostly I am really glad she is being sensible. She's about 2 hours away, so if things ease up sufficiently, I could see a visit down there where we could hang out outside at some point.

ETA: I do not have laundry in my apartment, so I am and expect to continue doing that by pick-up wash/dry/fold service once or twice a month. It's one of the trickier things with opening up, since a lot of the advice I'm starting to see has cleaning advice that involves a lot of washing of things, which is... um, not an easy option for a bunch of us.