A few weeks ago, I shared about how my city went from red to orange on the COVID Risk dial after ten weeks of being in red. To celebrate I bought oranges to share with my students and teachers and staff at the school where I teach. That day we went from red to high orange on the dial.
Yesterday we moved down to mid orange on the dial, so it is time for more oranges π
It was last year about this time we started hearing about COVID, Trump closed travel to and from China. I wondered if it would be all that serious having lived through other scares that turned out to be much to do about nothing. We know the rest of the story about the past eleven months.
There is talk about COVID fatigue. It has worn on all of us. There are things about life before COVID that we all miss. It is important to take care of our mental health during this time as well as our physical well being.
That is why I try to do little things like buying oranges to celebrate going down on the risk dial. A simple thing such as sharing an orange helps people feel a little hopeful.
Why I am sharing about oranges again with you? Two reasons. One is to spread a bit of positive news that somewhere progress is being made. The other is to hopefully encourage you to think of little ways to encourage others.
I can’t wait for the dial to go down to yellow here, so I can buy bananas and at my school we can go bananas π
Thank you for reading. God Bless.
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We love positive news! Thanks for sharing, Matt!
Glad to share π
Excellent to hear some covid good news for a change. Will be great fun when you all go bananas π€©
I can’t wait to go bananas π
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Wonderful to hear such positive news and I love how you choose to share this moment.
Thank you
Glad to share it
Haha! Good stuff!
…go bananas!!!π
It will be fun π
You make me smile as usual. “Go bananas!” ππOne orange a day will keep the doctor away. At least there is light at the end of this dark COVID tunnel. I do hope the light will get brighter. Have a blessed day, my friend. π
Glad to hear the good news. π
Haha. The “go bananas” made me smile. π
Hope you are good – very good, big bro?
I am ok. How are you little sister π
That’s good. π
I am doing good too. π
Do stay safe, big bro. Abba cares about you. π€
Thank you little sister. π
Jesus loves you π
You’re already bananas, my friend. X0
I know lol
Love that idea! A reward every time we do better. Perhaps mine will be an orange pair of shoes ππ
How many pairs of shoes do you have? 100? 200?
πππ Iβve not yet counted fortunately, therefore I plead the fifth πΆ
lol π
Thanks, love positive news and you make me smile π
I am glad you smiled π
Buying oranges was a creative way to spread the cheer! Prayerfully things will continue to move in the right direction. πππ
It would be wonderful to have it all behind us by summer π