Four Love Knots

This has been the oddest week. Monday morning my mother and I dropped off a quilt with the hospital quilters. On the way home we talked about the hospital visitor last week who’d been tested positive with COVID-19. We decided it would be safer to avoid volunteer work at the hospital until this whole thing blows over. Just hours later, that decision was made for us. The hospital volunteer program was suspended indefinitely. Over the next few days, nearly everything on my calendar disappeared: sing-alongs at the nursing home, the special needs activity program, Sunday church services, concerts and theatrical performances, even visits to the library. I’d assumed we might be exposed to someone who later tested positive, and then be told to self-quarantine at home for a couple of weeks. It never occurred to me that we might simply run out of other places to go.