Blog archive
April 2024
Tulsa reparations, Religion and Politics
04/09/2024
March 2024
Trumps War with Black Women
03/31/2024
Addressing The Needs of Older Adults Through Pasadena Village
03/25/2024
Coming Soon: More Resources for Older Americans, Online and in Person
03/25/2024
Community Building Locally and Nationally
03/25/2024
Preparing for the Future with Ready or Not
03/25/2024
Volunteering is at The Heart of the Village
03/25/2024
Women's Liberation: Then and Now
03/25/2024
Writing Memoirs Together
03/25/2024
Current Views on Current Events
03/20/2024
Unchained
03/18/2024
Rumr of Humor issue # 2409
03/10/2024
Blacks Portrayed by European Artists
03/03/2024
Rumor of Humor #2408
03/03/2024
February 2024
Caring for Ourselves and Each Other
02/27/2024
Doug Colliflower Honored
02/27/2024
Great Decisions Connects Us to the Worldwide Community
02/27/2024
Letter from the President
02/27/2024
Pasadena Village's Impact
02/27/2024
The Power of Touch
02/27/2024
Villages as a New Approach to Aging
02/27/2024
Addressing Gang Violence in Pasadena-Altadena
02/21/2024
Rumor of Humor Issue 2407
02/19/2024
Thank You For Caring.
02/12/2024
Rumor of Humor 2405
02/11/2024
Curve Balls
02/10/2024
Sylvan Lane
02/10/2024
Rumor of Humor 2404
02/09/2024
Larry Duplechan, Blacks in Film
02/03/2024
January 2024
Pasadena Village Joins Community Partners in Vaccination Campaign
01/29/2024
Rumor of Humor #2403
01/28/2024
Pasadena Village Joins Two Healthy Aging Resource Projects
01/25/2024
Decluttering: Do It Now
01/24/2024
Village Volunteers Contribute to the Huntington Magic
01/24/2024
Villagers Creating Community
01/24/2024
Villagers Reflect on Black History Month
01/24/2024
Walk With Ease, 2024
01/24/2024
Wide Ranging Discussion on Current Issues
01/22/2024
Wide Ranging Discussion on Current Issues
01/22/2024
Rumor of Humor # 2402
01/21/2024
Rumor of Humor # 2401
01/15/2024
Re- Entry Programs, a Personal Experience
01/08/2024
Strategies for “Pandemic Disturbing Ennui"
By John TuitePosted: 08/19/2020
recommendations, suggestions, experiences, advice and counsel, guidance.
We’ve been living in something of a bomb shelter for six months. When we
leave the trenches and chance an encounter in “no man’s land”, we strap on our gas
masks, wash hands for minimum required time, and spray ourselves with
protective chemicals! Even then our fortune and future depends on the speed and
aim of microscopic viral spots hovering in aerosol droplets. Even prescribed
protective distances aren’t absolutely safe, nor the assurances of plumbers, pest
controllers, or pizza men.
What’s the result of this challenge to our security, our health, and our peace of mind?
I heard a new term for it this week: “pandemic ennui”! But “ennui” seems altogether
too quiet for this worrisome, threatening, invisible ogre. Let’s add “disturbing”:
“pandemic disturbing ennui”. (“ennui”: a feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction
arising from a lack of occupation or excitement.)
Wouldn’t it be nice if this forced isolation were guaranteed to be over by November, like (perhaps) the other major present, but political and threatening disturbance in our lives.
But that isn’t possible! We haven’t learned how to get this under control. We may be
in the same bomb shelter next September. And that’s why I’m putting this subject on today’s agenda: What are your best strategies, what’s your best mechanism, how do you suggest we supplement our daily life to handle this crisis? How can we support each other? After all, we’ve bonded over the last few years, don’t we owe each other some support? Isn’t that the idea of the Village? To support each other in our aging years?
I’m looking for concrete suggestions and ideas that others of us haven’t thought
of yet. I’m looking for other than the mundane as well as the mundane! How can we best, with each other’s help, get through this next year? Put on your empathic cape and share your best notions. It’s for the good of that guy across from you!John Tuite