We’re all interconnected.

That has become so much clearer in the last few weeks, and especially in the last few days, as this virus uses those connections to hopscotch across the world in a way we haven’t seen in a hundred years (and yes, I am purposely overlooking the annual incidences of the flu).

But it has revealed deeper connections too. Some are tribal connections – see how the Democratic Party and Republican Party have found ways to see even this crisis through different lenses.

And some are more fundamental.

A few days ago, I started a Daily Check-In – a simple FB post and chat each day for all of us, but especially those who are locked away in our houses waiting for our governments to get a handle on this outbreak.

They have generated a huge response – more than a hundred folks checking in every day to share their own stories, and to read the stories of others.

For me, this crisis has reminded me how much privilege I have – as a cisgender man, as a white person, as an American, and as a white collar worker. Am I scared? Hell yes. Do I wish this would all come to an end? Are you shitting me? Of course I do.

But I have a roof over my head, my health (so far) and people who look out for me. We’ll survive the next few months.

Many of us are not so lucky.

We are all connected, in ways big and small…and we have to remember that as we navigate these days and weeks and months of isolation. We need to reach out to each other and do what we can in the next few months to keep all our heads above water.

I am writing again, too – for me, it’s a way of moving forward when so many other pathways are blocked.

So take care of yourself, but not just your body… find some way to feed your mind and soul too.

We’re in a whole new world – all we need to figure out how to navigate it together.