In the year and a half since the first COVID-19 lockdown, we’ve learned just how challenging and unpredictable pandemic times can be. For many of us, the ability to make ends meet, stay healthy, and heed Dr. Henry’s call to “be kind, be calm, and be safe” has required us to find inner reserves of strength we never knew we had. As spoken word artist Shayne Koyczan put it, during his moving performance to wrap up our 2021 convention: “The heaviest things you will ever have to lift are your own spirits…Remember those times you could have pressed ‘quit’, but you pressed ‘continue’ instead.”
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