dialogue and the post pandemic world

“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” - C.S. Lewis

Nicolas will lead us through a story-telling exercise, Robert has circulated the agenda, and we have the link to the Zoom meeting on Wednesday. This will be another week of building our group genius.

The question “What will the post pandemic world look like?” should give us food for thought in the months ahead. My sense is that our dialogue events will help shape that world. A New York Times article on the subject https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/world/americas/coronavirus-social-impact.html

What Will Our Post-Coronavirus Normal Feel Like? Hints Are Beginning to Emerge - The New York Times

During the nearly four-year siege, people’s sense of community, memory and even time all transformed, he said. Now, Mr. Bozovic and other survivors are already sensing echoes of that time in the ...

www.nytimes.com (which brings up for comparison the case of what some people experienced during and after the siege of Sarajevo) emphasizes that both good and bad things will emerge from all this. Rather than being passive in considering what the post pandemic world will look like, we could actively generate ideas for what we want it to look like. Then, based on those ideas, we could generate projects to actualize them. Brian Seaman’s leadership with physical activity (as a component of our innovative social events) is just one of the countless resources we have. Whatever we include in our dialogues in May, June, and July, this question What will the post pandemic world be like? should keep us thinking.

Arthur