HELP:

• Donate blood
• ✔ Donate groceries to a food bank
• ✔ Donate to Unicef, Oxfam, Mercy Corps
• ✔ Volunteer to grocery shop and deliver for elderly, friend's families
• Volunteer with Meals on Wheels (can't do)
• ✔ Donate money to feed nurses & doctors
• ✔ Hospital supplies donation (Huntington Hospital, Pasadena)
• ✔ Provide care package to neighbors

ISOLATION IDEAS:

• Drive In Movie
• Set phone dates with old and new friends
• Play board games
  • My Favs: pictionary, scrabble, listography, taboo, rummikub, phase 10, boggle, settlers of catan, code names, monopoly, scattergories, trivial pursuit, bananagrams
• Organize your laptop or phone apps
• Write letters to family or friends with a list of top 10 reasons why you love them or top 10 favorite memories
• Refresh your closet and donate
• Read a book that's been waiting for you
• Early spring cleaning
• Pick up journaling
  • My Favs: one list a day, wreck this journal, self-made gratitude journal, advice to myself journal, one line a day, listography series!
• Film education: catch up on really important films and the best of foreign or docs
• Take a youtube yoga or mediatation class
• Get supplies and start a garden
• Try a learn-a- new language app
• Inspire yourself with a ted talk
• Make a zine on a topic you're obsessed with and mail it to friends
• Delve into your rarely used recipe book
• Create a home movie with videos on your phone (download video edit app)
• Plan a dream trip
• Organize your kitchen shelves and fridge
• Make your favorite songs playlist (including one to dance to and dance)
• Create/Organize photo albums online or in hand (family, friends)
• Start a beginner creative project: writing, instruments, sketching, knitting, etc
• Create your LISTOGRAPHY of autobiographical lists on listography.com:
  • My favorite starter lists:
    • list your life to do list
    • list all the jobs you've held
    • list days you'd love to relive
    • list details and anecdotes regarding your family
    • list your hardest moments in life
    • list things you will never ever do
    • list your pet peeves
    • list things that bring you joy
    • list your favorite books, movies, and tv shows
    • list bands you've seen live

WHAT WE MIGHT LEARN FROM THE VIRUS:

• the power of community action
• that small changes drastically help our planet
• concern for the poor, unsheltered, & elderly
• lessons on animal agriculture
• gratitude for our friends and family
• appreciation for how much fun there is in the world amongst strangers
• connection with those in our homes with forced time off
• our dependence on government and the importance of our VOTE
• to take less for granted
• how to be still, present, & focused on our health
• that our individual choices affect everyone
• commonality with all humanity across our world