We are tremendously grateful to all the people serving the frontlines of COVID-19 in essential services. 

Oginitsi Selu, the corn mother and Cherokee first woman, shared a final meal with her children and told them to drag her dead body across the field so they might grow corn themselves.

“He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

Coneys (Rock badgers) teach us about wise building. 

“Lead me to the Rock that is higher than I…Jesus is the Rock!  Back up into the Rock,”

The worst thing that could possibly happen, outside of a national COVID-19 infection, is to politicize this crisis.

After the Covid-19 pandemic runs its course, what changes to our daily life are going to be permanent?

You are part of the pandemic story and so am I. Write your own story and send it to your newspaper’s Letter to the Editor. Connect with your community.