ME-as I go through this zany, marvelous, difficult experience called: "LIFE"!

PANDEMIC 7 The Pandemic’s Lasting Effects Dear Family and Friends, I received the 2 nd dose of the Pfizer vaccine on February 23 rd . I should be ecstatic that I did get the vaccine. I should be jumping for joy that I didn’t get Covid-19 as well. Well, my family and friends, though I am super grateful for both of these good fortunes, I am not jumping for joy. The months of isolation, the loss of people I love, the loss of the life as I knew it and not being with those I love, especially when they needed me, has had its’ lasting effects on me. Not being able to grieve and, especially not being able to grieve with others, has also taken its’ toll on me. I am usually the person who has bountiful energy and able to go out to others. Now, I find myself depressed, feeling alone and struggling. I want to be with those I love, especially my 91+ years old mother. My mother is now inpatient in the hospital with fluid buildup in her lungs. I want to be there for my moth...

Where I live, the Activities personnel created a "Love Letter Mailbox" to place Valentine's cards that the residents of the Assisted Senior Living have created. I, Evelyn, armored with colored pens and multi-colored markers and also with various card stock, decorative tape, glue sticks, stickers, hearts, a dose of creativity and with an overflowing cup of Love set to work in creating many, many personalized and handmade cards. As in these pictures, I am placing the finished handmade Valentine's cards, created by me, Evelyn, into our "Love Letters Mailbox"! Happy Valentine's Day! Love, Evelyn Pinto February 6, 2021

  Pandemic Part 6, “HOPE” And The Vaccine Dear Friends, It’s been a difficult, challenging and painful year! There is hope my friends! Vaccines to fight this Coronavirus are being given. And I will soon get the Covid-19 vaccine myself. The Pandemic, as of this cold day in January, it is still raging on. It has been a year since the 1 st case of Covid-19 was diagnosed in the United States. Covid-19 has brought with it pain, loss, grief, financial hardship, loss of livelihood, hunger, depression and much more. Friends have passed away from the Coronavirus. Other family and friends have died from illnesses, not related to Covid-19. I have been grieving these losses and more. For me, from this past year of 2020 to the commencement of 2021, it’s been challenging and difficult. My mother has been hospitalized with life threatening, serious medical problems. By the grace of God, my mother is still with us and medically stable to continue her recovery in Rehab. My sist...

Pleas e join me in spending a significant amount of time in prayer. Prayers could be 10, 15, 30, 60 minutes or as long as you can be spending praying. Let's pray for our families, our friends, our neighbors, our communities, our country and our world. Lastly, let us pray for ourselves. Love and prayers, Evelyn (Pinto) January 11, 2021

The year 2020 has been a difficult year for me and for so many of us. The political climate in the United States of America is, and has been for the past 4 years, in a total disastrous uproar. It has gotten worse now that our now president refuses to concede as he has placed our country in imminent danger on the way out of his presidency. The Pandemic of 2020 has been raging in full force in the United States and the world. I, as well as many other humans, are frightened, fearful and sick, either physically, emotionally, socially, spiritually or all of the above. Its Christmas time and I, taking the advice of the scientific community and the wiser leaders, choose, while carrying my broken heart, not be with my mother and other members of my family over the Christmas holiday. I’m sad, fearful and feel alone in this and other situations. I do, though, know that others are feeling the same and/or similar feelings. I feel helpless, my dear friends! When all I can do is pray...

  The Snow Storm of 2020 2020 has been a difficult year! There is, and has been most of this year, a pandemic raging. The political climate has not been conducive for serving the people. There is hope, my friends! A new president has been elected and will be in office in January, 2021. And, my dear friends, there are vaccines that will be available that could close the door on this pandemic. My friends, there is a snow storm today! The snow is piled up past my 1 st floor window. The roads are difficult to get through and our governor of Mass. has urged that everyone that could stay home, do stay home. Adventurous me, who loves rain, thunder, lightning and even snow storms decided to bear the elements and go outside. I, with my winter jacket tightly zipped and boots on, traveled through the front of the building in which I live. My friends, these pictures illustrate what I saw. The snow, fluffy, white and wet, itched my nose as this white stuff decorated m...

Joanie and Evelyn's Friendship Christmas Tree! My best friend, Joanie gave it to me because she has a cat. Anyone who has a cat knows how these rambunctious beings jump into stuff and get into everything. Joanie and I decorated this Christmas Tree together this morning. It was a team effort! This Christmas Tree was not only wrapped in lights and ornaments but, told a story of  a resilient   and close friendship. Evelyn Pinto December 3, 2020