Lessons in lockdown: Love & light in the time of Corona
Date: January 13, 2021
By Colleen Lowe Morna,
Johannesburg, 20 January: As the saying goes, “life is what happens while you are planning the next move.” 2020 proved this in the most dramatic way possible as the COVID-19 pandemic changed every plan; thrust us into lock down, confusion and moments of despair.
At the start of the year I would turn sixty, I had my plans laid out in immaculate detail. After nearly twenty years’ service, I would step down from Gender Links. Ten years earlier when I turned fifty I undertook a one hundred mile walk across the south of England. At sixty I planned to do the Coast to Coast walk – from one end of Northern England to the next; a 200 mile walk.