We Endured

Cynthia “Salonista" Kosciuczyk

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We did not know how long the Pandemic would go on. From 2019, this is the story of how we endured and transformed.
“The Pandemic was a reminder that there’s nothing more important than our health and the lives of our loved ones. With better choices and planning we will be more resilient in the future.”
—Richard Bailey
Mayor of Coronado, California
We Endured chronicles of how lives were changed by the arrival of Covid-19. With experience in research and interviewing people for media, I took a dive into the ways the pandemic affected us physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
I have been writing for some time for a LinkedIn Site, Bizcatalyst360. My style is to observe my everyday life looking for connection to the world. Finding an idea that touched my soul, doing some research, and asking questions of those who would know more in a particular area.
My first ones approached the concept of change. As I became more inspired due to being home in the first months of the pandemic, I started writing weekly. I wrote and then turned it to a Facebook live show on a 24-hr. place called the Quarantine Network. The live chat with the audience resulted in more topics to discover. Because of my nomadic and gregarious life experiences, I would find friends and ask a few poignant questions.
“The Quarantine Network was created by humans for humans. Instead of panicking or falling into bad habits, we decided to spend our days being connected to people. We created programs to keep our friends and strangers informed and occupied during dark times. When the light at the end of the tunnel arrived, we had an entire community that had been built.”
—Beau Harvey Doiron
Creator of the Quarantine Network
This book is a testament to all of those in my greater circle who endured with me. I didn’t not want all their efforts and sacrifices to be forgotten. Come dive in with me, I am confident you will be surprised!

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• Journaling
• Self-help

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• Publié par: AuthorHouse
• Date de parution: 30 juin 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798823009607
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 8 Mo

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WE ENDURED

 
 
Essays of our Lives During Quarantine
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
CYNTHIA “SALONISTA” KOSCIUCZYK
 
© 2023 Cynthia “Salonista” Kosciuczyk. All rights reserved.
 
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ISBN: 979-8-8230-0961-4 (sc)
ISBN: 979-8-8230-0960-7 (e)
 
Library of Congress Control Number: 2023911007
 
 
 
Published by AuthorHouse 07/06/2023
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
FOREWORD
Every so often, the word ‘serendipity’ surfaces when our daily routine is interrupted by an unforeseen, but beneficial intersection of ideas, people, or circumstances. And far too often, we don’t fully grasp the magnitude of such chance happenings. And so it went, as I encountered the unexpected pleasure of strolling through this book from cover to cover. Without question, the right book at the right time for me and for so many who, as I did, will look upon this as a mirror, reflecting many of our own perspectives formed as we traversed through, and as a consequence of the Pandemic. An extraordinary collection of essays crafted with candor and eloquence –ultimately becoming the real-time journal that we can all draw wisdom from as we look back –and look forward to navigating our “life beyond quarantine” journey.
Dennis J. Pitocco Publisher & Editor-in-Chief, BIZCATALYST 360° CEO & ReImaginator, 360° NATION
DEDICATION
This book is dedicated to all those whose lives were lost during the pandemic, as well as to all the healthcare practitioners, first responders, and service workers who kept the world going through trying times.
 
 
 
 
 
 
June 26, 2023: “We endured our journey over three years, surviving the waves of Covid-19. When these essays were read live, they helped us make sense of the pandemic. Reading then in retrospect, helps us understand, heal, and move forward.”
—Rick Amato
National TV host, Founder & editor-in-chief
Your America TV & YourAmericaTV.com
CONTENTS
Foreword
Dedication
Introduction
Chapter 1       How the Pandemic Instigated Change
Chapter 2       How to Survive Change.
Chapter 3       The Pandemic and the Food Business
Chapter 4       Sleep Yes or NO
Chapter 5       Covid -19 and the Outdoors
Chapter 6       Isolation and the Pandemic
Chapter 7       Healthcare and the Pandemic
Chapter 8       and the Pandemic and Technology
Chapter 9       Education and Covid-19
Chapter 10     Essential Workers during Quarantine
Chapter 11     Transportation: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles during the Pandemic
Chapter 12     Customer Service and Pandemic Behavior
Chapter 13     the Pandemic and the Family
Chapter 14     Fashion and the Pandemic
Chapter 15     Consumer Trends During the Pandemic
Chapter 16     Cooking our way through Covid19.
Chapter 17     Faith during the Pandemic
Chapter 18     Pets and the Pandemic
Chapter 19     Relationships during the Pandemic
Chapter 20     Covid 19 and Books!
Chapter 21     Hobbies: gardening Bloomed During the Pandemic
Chapter 22     Painting our way through the Pandemic.
Chapter 23     Making Music through the Pandemic
Chapter 24     Fun and Games
Chapter 25     Commerce and the Pandemic
Chapter 26     How We Worked during Quarantine: Changed the world.
Chapter 27     Leading through the Pandemic
Chapter 28     The Stress of a Pandemic
Chapter 29     One Year into Quarantine
Chapter 30     Housing us During a Pandemic
Chapter 31     Covid-19 kept us home and Building!
Chapter 32     Cars and Covid-19
Chapter 33     Diversity During a Life under Quarantine
Chapter 34     The Pandemic’s Staffing Challenge
Chapter 35     Technology During the Pandemic
Chapter 36     Our mental health during Life during Quarantine
Chapter 37     Gratitude vs Entitlement and Connectivity vs Loneliness
Chapter 38     Pandemic Power Struggles
Epilogue
References
INTRODUCTION
I have been a writer for BizCatalyst360 for some time. Between doing weekly spots on the Quarantine Network and Prices and Politics, and a contributor for IQ Podcasts, I bega n a series called “Life During Quarantine” to chronicle the way the Pandemic impacted our lives. At the beginning, not knowing how long the situation would go on. This is a combination of interviews with real people and research. The idea is to have a record for the future of how our lives have transformed. Thanks for looking with me. Let’s begin with the concept of Change.
The word change, alter, vary, modify mean to make or become different. Change implies making either an essential difference often amounting to a loss of original identity or a substitution of one thing for another. Changing the shirt for a larger size implies a difference in some respects without suggesting loss of identity.
CHAPTER 1
HOW THE PANDEMIC INSTIGATED CHANGE
“Life is flux,” said the philosopher Heraclitus. The Greek philosopher pointed out in 500 BC that everything is constantly shifting, and becoming something other to what it was before. Like a river, life flows ever onwards, and while we may step from the riverbank. Into the river, the waters flowing over our feet will never be the same waters that flowed even one moment before. Heraclitus concluded that since the very nature of life is change, to resist this natural flow was to resist the very essence of our existence. “There is nothing permanent except change,” he said. Early in the pandemic I had participated in a webinar hosted by the MIT Management Executive Education with Hal Gregersen and Roger Lehman’s “Navigating the Human Side of Transitions in Times of Change,” on April 23.
The coronavirus has made all of us navigators of change. When I think of navigating, I have two distinct memories that come to mind. The first is from my childhood. My mother, who we nicknamed “Hot Rod Mary”, loved long road trips. She would put us all in the car, mention her destination, say which route she was going, throw the map in the backseat and ask us to find us a different route back home. It gave me lifelong confidence in reading maps, finding my direction from anywhere at any time, open to new ideas and directions, and the ability to do anything in motion. The other story about navigation inspiring the title of this talk is from the years I was in a sail racing team.
 
 
We were in a channel with various depths with a vague map of the outlay, and since we were in Swan. In our sailboat our engine was a backup. We had a problem so we had someone with a wrench manually adjusting our speeds, the sonar on so we could gauge depth, and was twilight so not so easy to judge onshore landmarks. Because of teamwork and unshakeable determination and a great captain, we made our destination. This year, 2023, is the 60th Anniversary of the Aegean Rally, the race that made us a team.
Change in our lives can either be something we initiate or something we must do in response to the circumstances we find ourselve s in.
If you look over history mankind has devised many ways to elicit a change. I am most familiar with the science views, and some of the most incredible changes in our thinking came from theories like Darwin’s evolution, Newton’s physics discoveries, Edison with electricity, Madame Curie and radiation, and the well-known ones of Galileo and Copernicus and their mind-blowing discoveries. I read and was fascinated by “The Knowledge Trilogy” book series by Daniel J. Boorstin includes books The Discoverers: A History of Man’s Search to Know His World and Himself, The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination, and The Seekers: The Story of Man’s Continuing Quest to Understand His World.
Do you need some reading material? I do highly recommend them; you never know what new ideas you can create. The element of change, or the mathematical symbol Delta, is something in my world which has been a constant. In fact, accepting and navigating change had become my way of life. Looking back at each experience, I see the lesson I needed to learn, and each change manifested the level of understanding necessary for the next level. In my life, I have had 12 hometowns, 37 addresses, 2 marriages, 5 businesses, and numerous positions of many types. To sum that all up in a single statement, I venture to say effort is everything, renew your determination to achieve your goals daily, and never ever give up.
This time the changes are brought about by a factor seen in the microscope who reaches worldwide disrupting health, families, business, and the way the world functions. It is something most of us never expected. What to do? How to think? How will I survive? What about my family? My business? In normal times each of these challenges may happen, this time it’s all of them at the same time to everyone in the world. I read this interesting article; my takeaway is the thought of the tit