Jay Hendrickson - Yoshitomo

MARCH 18, 2020 © Right Here, Right Now.

Right now I’m really grateful for community and family. This stuff is really overwhelming and when you start to look at it like its all mounted up against you whether it be lack of income, the uncertainty of the future, you really start to look at those around you and see they’re struggling with the same thing. Just kind of seeing and having that support of family and friends around you and also just kind of being somebody who is able to do something for someone else as well kind of helps you put things into perspective. So I’m really grateful to the community and family the most right now.

Short term, I’m hopeful that these decisions we are making are going to be as effective as they are being made for and that it shortens the life of this “new normal”, as everybody’s calling it, and hopeful that this isn’t the “new normal” and that this is really just temporary. That’s the biggest kind of concern…everybody’s got concerns about being able to go to the grocery store, running out of this, that or the other or losing their job, not going without income for a certain amount of time. The biggest thing is just not knowing how long this is going to last so it's very concerning.

I just kind of go back to that sense of community and family and just let them know that everybody is going through this, it’s not just you that’s going through this. A lot of times we have very particular issues that affect us that are very personal and this one isn’t. This one’s affecting everyone on a global scale so I guess something that is comforting is that we are all going through this stuff at the same time and if we’re all doing what we can for each other and for our families…you know I think the only thing we can do. I think that's going to provide the most recovery which is to talk about it, call somebody, look for that support and I’m sure you’re going to find it.