...over 400,000 US deaths

  & over 2 million deaths globally.

We have all suffered so greatly from this terrible pandemic.

We must remember all those we have lost and extend our hearts and compassion to all those who have lost their precious loved ones. 

We must also remember those who have recovered from this ominous virus and the difficult path ahead for them, especially those who will go on to suffer  from the ravages this virus leaves behind.

We manual therapists must step into the fray to offer our unique talents to help relieve their suffering. 

"Look, the trees

are turning

their own bodies

into pillars

of light,

are giving off the rich

fragrance of cinnamon

and fulfillment,

the long tapers

of cattails

are bursting and floating away over

the blue shoulders

of the ponds,

and every pond,

no matter what its

name is, is

nameless now.

Every year

everything

I have ever learned

in my lifetime

leads back to this: the fires

and the black river of loss

whose other side

is salvation,

whose meaning

none of us will ever know.

To live in this world

you must be able

to do three things:

to love what is mortal;

to hold it

against your bones knowing

your own life depends on it;

and, when the time comes to let it go,

to let it go."