Wo(Humanity) ~ Happy Mother's Day 2021

Women who wear multiple hats learn to prioritize and manage their daily routines with astuteness. A woman with a child knows always to use the back-burners. A married woman knows when there is conflict on the horizon before an argument erupts. A woman employee learns to give way to her boss’ commands and perform her responsibilities with care. I do not mean that only women care and have excellent time management skills. The point is, these become innate to their performance as they are habituated to them.

Perhaps we can look back at our mothers who were family caregivers and were never employed. Was a meal missed? Was a breakfast late? Were collars frayed? Were buttons broken? Perhaps we can look to those mothers who were family caregivers and were employed. Did they not do what their home-bound sisters did? We can look at single women, divorcees, widows who continue to charge on with any resources available to them. For that is wo(humanity). We seem to have missed out on the “wo” in human. For it seems to be all (hu)man. Or so (his)tory the chronicler of wars will tell you.

And on this Mother’s Day midst a raging pandemic, I remember my mother, Past Inner Wheel District Chairman Madhuben Desai, who was a family caregiver par excellence and, in my opinion, a philanthropist second only to my father, Past Rotary District Governor, D. m. Desai.

Vancouver Sun Run-Walk

The virtual Vancouver Sun Run is done. Well, with the new format, we can do the virtual Sun Run when we like where we like however often we like, socially distanced and masked as we are.

It has served multiple purposes. It has enabled me to get out of my seclusion more frequently than I would have. It has caused me to be greener than I would have been. It has been a means for undertaking chores afoot. And I have tabulated my walks and calories expended and time spent. I now realize that if cherry blooms had not abounded during April 18 – 30, 2021 in Vancouver, BC, I might have walked faster, though 29.28 k in 360 minutes is a de-stressing endeavour. After decades of being enamoured by cherry blossoms and writing haiku, I have learned names of some cherry trees. I can now throw around akebono, pandora and kanzan with abandon. Matching the tree to the name is yet a challenge, and I do not believe that I will ever ace a Botany exam in Japanese.

And through it all, all Sun Runners have been mindful of their fundraising goals. I have been a dedicated BC Children’s Hospital Foundation fundraiser. And if this piece or petals impel you to donate on my fundraising page, I would be honoured.

Work Wonders

History may observe an evolutionary trend in homo sapiens post 2020. We have become mask-wearers, social-distancers, hand sanitizer-users, OCD-disinfectors. Perhaps it will end one day. In the interim, however, this is who we have become. This concerns the physical and social aspects of our daily lives.

There is also the monetary aspect of unemployment. Instead of waiting for Indeed or Workopolis to find jobs for them, laid-off employees may go for self-employment. Whether it is a home-spun home-run mask-manufacturing business or a neighborly grocery delivery. We have seen different revenue streams surfacing. It is likely that these new avenues of revenue may survive. As will homo sapiens.

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