I have been feeling lucky (my wife says "guilty") that we really are not suffering much here right now. We are mostly staying home, venturing out only to the grocery store or for occasional works of mercy. My wife went to the fabric store yesterday to get materials to make masks for the local hospital, phone order and curbside delivery. Last Monday we worked at the food ministry, and will do so again this week, providing groceries to those in need (and in whose faces I see a lot more sheer terror than anyone else I interact with). The ministry has done a fabulous job turning on a dime and revising procedures so that clients don't leave their cars, and there are no "order slips" that go through multiple hands. It's tough right now because the overwhelming majority of volunteers are seniors (and more senior than I), and about half of them do not feel they can come in. But a good cadre of younger folks have stepped up--boy scouts, college students, etc. My wife felt a little nervous about us continuing to go, but somebody needs to do it.
We're doing Bible studies and Lenten studies via Zoom, and having a weekly clergy staff meeting in the same way, so that takes up most of Thursday. We are at this point doing services on video with only four people in the church--the rector, the musician, a tech person and one other. I was up today, so went to church for the production which will be posted tomorrow. We maintained the required distance throughout.
On the home front, I finished a writing project for the Lutheran Historical Conference Journal, cleaned up my office (still working on the study), and we're getting ready to do some possession pruning (if we can just find somewhere to store the stuff until the thrift stores reopen!). We talk to one or the other of our kids almost every day; had a Zoom get together with my wife's four siblings and all the spouses the other day, with people checking in from London, New York, Minnesota and California.
We live in a beautiful place and can safely walk in the neighborhood, seeing and chatting with neighbors (again with the requisite social distance).
I do OK being home alone, but after I retired, when my wife was still working, I realized after a few weeks that I needed to be deliberate about social interaction. Church was my primary opportunity. Having that interaction now so limited is somewhat difficult, but we're managing.
