Sitting through silence
Sitting in the silence while food cooks Sometimes it's hard to maintain relationships over the phone. Especially with islanders who are used to the 30 second call to connect. Those calls normally go like this: Person A: Hi! How are you? Person B: Good, and you? How are your people? Person A: They're good, I'm good. What's the news? Person B: Nothing new, it's all the same. How's your health? Person A: It's good. Well, I was just calling to say hi. Person B: Ok, thanks. Have a good day! Person A: You too. And that's it. So it's easy enough to call people, but it's hard to stay connected with everything that's going on in their lives. Talk of hopes and dreams, babies and marriages, disappointments and hurts, those are all hard to talk about over the phone. So when we stopped visiting for awhile due to COVID-19 concerns, relationships took a bit of a hit. We continued to call, to maintain the care in relationships, but so muc...