There's a huge amount of loss. I believe we're going to need to, after all of this passes us, be looking at how do we actually grieve? The wisdom that I've heard and my own instinct is don't postpone. Even if it's not in the form that you had imagined, still mark the loss with your community.
In “The Art of Gathering,” conflict resolution specialist Priya Parker writes that “Every gathering is an opportunity to create a world we wish existed.” But sometimes we have to make do with the world we’ve got. She tells Rufus that we don’t have to be in the same place to come together in meaningful ways.