Soar With a Caress of Spirit

Voila! Epiphanies: Muses and Revelations for Mindful Connections, Re-awakenings, and Our Harmony was headed for my publisher. For two months, best couched as PJ’s baby steps or a jumbo leap, an illuminating process was seized. My baby steps or that jumbo leap promised to be challenging, but did not include the unprecedented transformation.

I expected the photography changes. I anticipated a medley of the delayed emails. But, the unprecedented transformation for our world?

Our longer hours at home, the daily efforts to work remotely, and a new norm of socializing spiraled. These daily challenges morphed quickly, like our rapid heartbeats in a fierce mega-marathon.

An ever-changing reality of our COVID—19 pandemic, the mind-boggling news, and our unanticipated protocols arrived, even as we slept. We awakened each day to an uncertainty, the angst, and our months of the alien protocols.

My editorial team challenges and a series of publishing undulations with our pandemic happened overnight as well. For all of us, the real and surreal realms of a global pandemic were given a befitting namesake—our “new normal.”

This pandemic affected countless employees, altering our off-the-Richter-scale jitters, the misgivings, or an unrelenting disquiet. Our distressful mindsets were propagating, particularly with the daily and ambiguous predictions or other skewed impressions. How did any of us juggle for any semblance of a work-life balance?

Many of us sought out a heartfelt entity for a work-life balance. Thankfully, our breaking news included the authentic stories about an array of devoted, compelling, and the humanitarian efforts.