Cocooning Butterflies

All over the world, people are cocooning, waiting to emerge like butterflies, into a new dawn. For those of us blessed with great health, who are not essential workers, we are granted an introspective and creative time. There's been a shift in consciousness - a transformation.

The initial fear, panic, and climbing the walls over the COVID-19 virus, has given way to a quiet resolve to do our part to protect ourselves, and everyone around us, by self isolating for two weeks. We are not the heroic front line doctors, nurses and healthcare workers, pharmacists, and grocery store workers, putting their own lives at risk, each time they care for a person with the virus, or engage with a customer. Yet, with every mindful action we take - frequently washing our hands, standing six feet apart in the grocery store, staying home - we help ease their burden.With every action we take, we do not spread the virus.    

In our homes, connected via our phones and the internet, we are apart, and yet together, everyone sharing the same experience. With almost everyone home from work, and entertainment and sports venues, shopping malls and restaurants closed, families are rediscovering each other. Parents and children are playing board games, going for long walks, learning to bake bread, having family meals together, and sharing conversation. Children kinda like this virus thing.

Musicians have risen to angelic heights, gifting us with music and song. There's been an outpouring of soulful, joyful music from all around the world. I love the spontaneous "block parties" which have burst through open windows, and spilled out onto balconies in Italy, and Spain, and Canada. 

Here in Vancouver, we have held nightly ovations for front line healthcare workers. At 7 o'clock every night, people stand on their balconies and porches, and clap hands, shout, bang pots, ring cowbells, honk car horns, blow ship's horns, and even set off fireworks for the hospital workers. It's heartfelt and exuberant.

Have you noticed the collective shift in the conversation? People who may have been anxious about being isolated at home, are now talking about what kind of world they want to create. There's wisdom in this quote I found on Facebook, "in the rush to return to normal, use this time to consider what parts of normal are worth rushing back to."

    

When this is over, emerge from your cocoon, spread your wings, and fly like a butterfly! I've been creating new clothing collections, and adding to old collections (Monarch Butterfly, Monarch Butterfly Orange Flower, Monarch Butterfly Blue Sky, and Climbing the Walls). Here are a few butterfly inspired designs for lingering and lounging a little longer at home, heading into town, or flying away!  

All clothing, lingerie and totes are found here, in my Art of Where shop:
https://artofwhere.com/artists/ruth-adams-widow-s-endorphins-photographic-images-inc-/clothing
 

Photographs Copyright of: Ruth Adams, Widow's Endorphins Photographic Images Incorporated.