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How do you express love during a coronavirus outbreak?
This is a coronavirus selfie. One of my guests today on A Woman’s View, a program I host for KSL that airs every Sunday and in podcast, coined that phrase. We usually take a picture together after the show, but we’ve heard so much about the importance of maintaining “social distance,” that she came up with the idea of staggering us. So, Carol Tuttle, Shantel McBride, Lois Collins and I did a
We laughed, and I said goodbye at the elevator without hugging them.
It felt so strange. I ALWAYS hug my guests on A Woman’s View. I am one of those people – a hugger. I ask permission, of course. You have to do that in 2020. But if I’m granted permission, I say goodbye with a hug. Sometimes hello AND goodbye.
I blame my father
Not any more.
Now I sometimes move my arms like I’m going to hug from a distance. I give them an “air hug.” My intentions are clear. My face shows the love I feel, but my arms cannot embrace.
I understand the need during this difficult time to limit our contact with each other, to protect the other person as much as yourself. I understand it in my brain, but not in my heart. I understand that shaking hands is possibly the most threatening because our hands likely have more germs. Hence the frequent reminders to wash our hands, well and often. I get it. And yet, we all need the love and warmth that touch previously provided.
Perhaps we should adopt the Japanese custom of bowing. I always liked the respect of the bow. I think I could embrace that. I know it’s not common in our culture, but it could become so. We could have a bow PSA campaign. Bowing could become cool, and before you know it, handshakes would be a thing of the past.
