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Hello All,
I
thought about keeping the Get Out! events column going with a list of streaming shows
and activities you can join via Zoom or some other live-participation app. Not
quite the same, is it? And it wouldn’t fill a need, as the internet right now
is teeming – no, exploding! – with lists of virtual things to do and places to see
remotely. Just one example: Eventbrite, the most popular online source of IRL (in real life) events has converted itself into a listing of live-stream and virtual events: https://www.eventbrite.com/d/online/events/.
Here's a Washington DC-based site that’s made a game -- “Washington DC Social Distancing Bingo” -- out of all the things you can do online and at home:
However, I will make one suggestion for an actual, physical thing you can do in DC in the coming week: Take a long walk – keeping a safe, six-foot
distance from other walkers, of course – down to the Tidal Basin to see the
cherry blossoms at peak bloom. From Cleveland Park, it’s about four miles each
way. According to Google Maps, that should take the average walker about an hour and twenty minutes.
Now here's something you can do tonight, at home: At ten minutes to midnight (11:50 PM EDT on 3/19/20) , it’s the Vernal Equinox. That’s something to celebrate, even
in the time of Covid-19. And this year it’s happening on the earliest date since
1896. We’ll have no gatherings to dance under the moonlight, but you can learn all
about the 2020 Equinox here: https://www.almanac.com/content/first-day-spring-vernal-equinox ….and maybe dream about another spring when people are able
to assemble in mass numbers at any of the grand sites for celebration around the world:
Hoping for an early end to the corona shut-down, and until
then, wishing you health and perseverance as you shelter in place!
-Peggy Robin
CP Listserv Moderator
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