Choosing Reentry location!

As a political activist and community advocate, I lead a pretty busy life. There’s always something going on in my community and most of the highlights center around our ability to get together for breakfast — pre-COVID. We had a favorite restaurant and one morning, we almost took up the entire dining area with about 15 of us seated. That was then, before the world shut down due to COVID-19 outbreaks and we were asked to shelter at home and mask up when outside our homes, to protect loved ones and friends.

During COVID isolation, our getting together consisted of Zoom meetings, one after the other and most of us, became pretty good at adapting to our new mode of gathering. It took a while for some to get the hang of using Zoom, but my curiosity led me to become quite good at manipulating backgrounds, recording meetings, going live on Facebook and in editing. It is a skill that I will always appreciate since, it looks like — Zoom may be the safest way to meet with large groups, for some time to come.

One of the amazing things about Zoom, is the total convenience of being at home, or in a car (when necessary) and when at home, not being “fully dressed.” While I heard the stories about “revelations” of the unmentionable kind, I didn’t see too many. There were a couple of instances in which someone was on a Zoom meeting during a City Council meeting, and they were lounging in…