Andrea's Everything Eco Exploration

I went for a long soggy romp along the river yesterday.  I bundled up in fleece and a long purple rain slicker, mittens and galoshes, and sloshed through slick puddles on clay and sandy paths along a muddy river I slipped and slid and hid in the underbrush that dripped fat drops on the brim of my hat. I'd packed almonds and cider and tea, and set off between the trees To see how far I could get along the north side of her swollen banks. It felt so freeing. So grounding Surrounded by these trees waking up and unfurling curled leaves Taking hearty drinks from the steady drizzle before it drips back into the river.

Wow, what a crazy year 2020 has been so far! At the beginning of the year I was preparing for a trip to France to do Workaways , and not much else beyond that. My partner was going to start running an urban farm company, and I didn't have much planned except for trying to get into the child care & education field and sitting on the board of my favourite music festival and running their Eco-committee. When we left France the Covid-19 cases in France were double digits and mostly in Paris. There was single digit cases in Calgary. But that quickly changed. Fast forward to the present, Calgary has the most cases in Alberta! There has been over 4,000 cases, with over 3,000 recovered (that's pretty good at least). But as with most of the country and world, most of the city shut down as self quarantining was encouraged. Schools, day-cares, restaurants and bars, any thing non-essential was closed. This was not a good time to try and find work! Luckily my partner was still