My mother-in-law has a friend in Ireland who thinks it’s interesting we call it “quarantine” in the states; she says they call it “cocoon,” which is cozier, according to my MIL, and I think more optimistic—a promise of things to come.
I don’t look at our current situation through doe-eyes: this is terribly sad, disappointing, and scary for so many of us. Considering ourselves cocooning, though, opens the possibility of renewal, that we may emerge a little more colorfully. And in the meantime, if we are lucky, we are wrapped comfortably at home, perhaps with immediate family in tow.
From my cocoon: I’ve learned that I don’t miss taking multiple trips to multiple food stores; and that even in the most dire of circumstances, there are some tasks, like organizing photos, that I just will not complete. I’ve seen one daughter take control of her day, creating routine, and another free-styling her free time. When cocooned, my husband paints kitchen walls white and I attempt to write a middle-grade novel. We work puzzles together. I’ve discovered that agave pales in comparison to my favorite creamer, and while the sound machine on ‘ocean waves’ may be comforting, it’s no replacement for the real deal.
In our neighborhood there’s a three-mile loop, and these days, in 50+ degrees, it’s the Grand Prix. On several of my walks, I’ve seen the same man, scootering. I’ve noticed he stops a lot (I imagine longer than he normally would; that is, if he even scooted at all, pre-cocoon) to admire various blossoming shrubs and trees: the magnolias, the cherries, the forsythias.
Perhaps cocooning will help us rediscover what we’ve known all along. Spring is here, delivering on its annual promise, and still, we get to take it all in.
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| THIS WEEK'S LOCAL LOVE
Shop Small & Support Local
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Binakleen Services
In knowing that businesses and place of worship may start to reopen again, Binakleen Services would like to offer our services of deep cleaning and sanitizing as you welcome your customers/members back to ensure that everyone stays healthy.
If you are interested, feel free to message me in messenger anytime, or email us at
binakleen3@gmail.com
484.368.2358
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| E.G. Rall, Jr. Landscape
To our valued customers, we are here for you during this unprecedented time, managing every aspect of your exterior. Our team will continue to provide you with all of your gardening essentials, lawn and garden maintenance, design projects, stormwater management, lighting, irrigation, and spring, summer and fall plantings. We realize that it may be difficult for you to purchase landscape and garden products; however, we can deliver these items to you. Please email us with your request or visit our website and fill out the contact us form and we will reply with a quote.
Some of the products that we can supply-
Mulch • Topsoil • Trees, shrubs, flowers • Vegetable and Herb Plants • Hardgoods • Lawn products
All sales are final. , rallinfo@egralljrlandscape.comegralljrlandscape.com
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| Village Wellness
Berwyn
Their doors have been closed since 3/13 – so its been a financial challenge for the vw team. They are
hopeful and have worked really hard on getting their online services up and running.
You can check out online services here:
• Live Online Classes
• Tele-medicine & online services
In general to support our community at this time:
• We have significantly reduced the rate of many of our services
• All of our online classes are on a sliding/pay what you can scale starting at $1
• We are offering a FREE online weekly meditation circle
6 Waterloo Avenue, Berwyn
(610) 203-3747
villagewellness.net
Martha Kob, MSED, RN, CRNP, Licensed Professional Counselor
Phoenixville
Martha Kob is currently offering Telehealth counseling. If you or your child are experiencing anxiety during this Covid 19 episode, are having difficultly adjusting, or if you feel your relationships may be suffering, why not call for a Telehealth appointment? Martha Kob has been a nurse practitioner and counselor for many years. She takes most insurances and Employee Assistance Programs. Martha is a graduate of Villanova Graduate and Post Graduate Programs in Counseling as well as UVA Graduate School of Nursing CRNP Certificate Program. Her hours are flexible and she sees all age groups. All appointments are currently Telehealth.
Phone: 610-265-3455
harpsounds.com/counseling
Virtual Watercolor Art Class – Deena Ball
Havertown
A watercolor class for those who have taken some watercolor instruction in the past. There is also a beginning watercolor class and a preschool drawing class. Please visit deenasball.com for more information.
Virtual Watercolor Class
MainLine Neighbors Meet the Artist
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Better Being Main Line
846 West Lancaster Ave, Suite B, Bryn Mawr
Better Being Main Line is a private, boutique psychotherapy practice that provides personalized and compassionate care. We believe in a strong relationship between a client and their therapist; therefore our clinicians work in in a nonjudgmental, empowering, and supportive manner. We use evidence based techniques while tailoring treatment strategies specifically to meet your goals. We value collaboration with you and other health care professionals involved in your treatment to develop the most effective interventions.
Recent Blog Post:
Stuck at Home with Kids? Here is What You Can Do
Tips for Parents to Get Through Covid-19 Pandemic
by Elvan Kama Kurtz
betterbeingmainline.com
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...Who Saved Easter
Kramer Drive, last-minute delivery of gift bags filled with candles, pens, and bath salts
Christopher’s, the margaritas
No Nuts Nikki, 20-piece platter of mixed desserts
Studio Flora, beautiful flowers and White Glove Delivery
Aneu Kitchen and Juicery, freshly pressed Cosmo and delicious fresh Bloody Mary mix
Taste of Britain, full afternoon tea, fresh scones
...Songs We’ll Sing When We Can Karaoke Again
Sing a Song, Earth Wind and Fire
Celebration, Kool and the Gang
We Are Family, Sister Sledge
Feelin Alright, Joe Cocker
Sir Duke, Stevie Wonder
You Only Get What You Give, Free Radicals
I’m Still Standing, Elton John
Black Horse and the Cherry Tree, KT Tunstall
What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger, Kelly Clarkson
...DIY Hair Dye
Arctic Fox
Overtone
Colorista
Tressa Professional Intense Shampoo
Madison Reed
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| DELAWARE COUNTY SYMPHONY
A MUSICAL OFFERING OF APPRECIATION TO
OUR LOCAL HEALTHCARE WORKERS
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| Ms. Jennifer Nicole Campbell
Delaware County Symphony's Chamber Music Director
Performing Brahms Intermezzo in A Major Opus 118 No. 2
More on Ms. Campbell
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| Bringing Home a Hive
Eli’s Honey Bees
Honeybees pollinate flowering plants and help the local ecosystem thrive. Offering hive management services for educational, residential, and commercial clients. Providing everything needed to establish and maintain beehives at your location, including extraction of honey at the end of the summer.
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Shooting off Rockets
Estes Rockets
Estes encourages everyone to take time to play, learn, create or build something during these uncertain times. It’ll help both your attitude and your health. If you need inspiration, or a distraction, please feel free to visit EstesRockets.com to explore the excitement of model rocketry and to ignite your imagination.
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Building a Cornhole Board
How to Make a Regulation Cornhole Board
This bean-bag toss game is fun and easy for the whole family. Building a set is a fairly easy woodworking project that you can tackle in a day.
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Sidewalk Chalk Art: The Mosaic
A really simple and fun way to get outdoors and off of electronics is to create some chalk art on your driveway or sidewalks. There are so many creative ways to create art with sidewalk chalk.
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People’s Light
How you can help:
Donate to People’s Light: As a center for community gathering, they keenly feel the financial fallout of this crisis and need your support now more than ever. With your help, they can navigate the times ahead and be stronger for it when they reopen their doors.
Buy a People’s Light gift certificate. Certificates never expire, are available in any amount, and can be applied to any performance, subscription, or Theatre School class. *Check out this wonderful resource: Art and Community from Afar
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Main Point Books
They’ve Gone Virtual:
As the second month of Covid 19 remediation and Main Point Books' doors being closed, they have decided it is time to try to resurrect some of the programming that brings us all together. They are starting with their own book groups, that they hope you will have time to join, and a phenomenal local author whose book launch had to be cancelled at the beginning of the month. Please email Main Point Books to let them know what programs you would like to participate in and they will send you a zoom link.
A Main Point Books CoVid Book Rec for Kids:
Free Download
This informative and accessible guide for young readers defines the coronavirus, explains why everyday routines have been disrupted, and lays out how everyone can do their part to help. With child-appropriate answers and explanations, the book addresses several key questions.
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| OTHER WAYS TO HELP LOCALLY
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T&E Care
If you are willing to offer financial support in any way, that would be most appreciated. T&E Care expect a lot of requests for assistance. Either checks, paypal/venmo donations, or gift cards would be welcome. If anyone wants to shop for the local food pantry, T&E Care posted ideas on how to help there. For T&E Care, the best help is a donation so we can pay bills or mail out gift cards.
We will all get through this together! That’s what T&E Care is all about!
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Meals on Wheels
Now more than ever Main Line Meals on Wheels needs your support during these times of uncertainty. The COVD-19 virus has turned everyone’s world upside down, but especially the elderly and homebound patrons receiving meals from Main Line Meals on Wheels.
It is hard to believe that in our area there are hundreds of people who depend on Main Line Meals on Wheels, but that is reality. Please consider donating — any amount is appreciated and helps put meals on someone’s table. $8.50 a day feeds a patron a hot and cold meal. Donations can be taken over our Main Line Meals on Wheels website or mailed directly.
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Help Hope Live
A Main Line-based national nonprofit, that supports community-based fundraising for people with unmet medical and related expenses due to cell and organ transplants or catastrophic injuries and illnesses. Help Hope Live went 100% remote overnight to ensure that their community of 3,800+ patients would be able to continue accessing their help during COVID-19 concerns. In addition to continuing to operate full-time remotely, they are also publishing virtual fundraising resources for their clients (and anyone else who needs it), celebrating those families who were experts in social distancing and medical crisis concerns long before COVID-19, and spreading a little dose of hope by sharing some funny and endearing remote work moments from their staff on social media every week.
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Food it Forward
The mission at Kendall’s Crusade has always been to help those impacted by AVM and aneurysms, but their T/E-based Foundation wants to support and take care of those in their local community currently impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.
While there is a lot of uncertainty surrounding our current environment, our local food establishments have already felt the blow. Some restaurants have shut down while others have been reduced to “drive through” businesses, at best. While this will sustain many of them in the short run, a mandatory shutdown is still possible. A total stoppage could be financially devastating for the restaurants and their employees.
Meanwhile, the list of needy families is growing, as is the strain on front line responders. Your donations will support more than the local restaurants. The gift cards you purchase will then be distributed to those working so hard at Paoli Hospital right now, as well as to local food banks. It’s two for one giving.
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The Baldwin School develops bright, talented girls into confident, accomplished women with vision, global understanding and the determination to make enduring contributions to the world.
baldwinschool.org
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Your source forelegant, funky, and chic furnishings, home décor, fine art, niche collectibles,fine jewelry, and beyond.
Online Fine Estate Auction, Friday, April 24 at 11AM.
Lots open for bidding now!
Featuring a fine selection of Antiques; Decorative Items; Americana; Silver; Carpets; Modern Design Furnishings, and more, from selected Main Line and other Delaware Valley Estates, Homes, and Collections.
Download our bidding app from the App Store or Google Play, and see our website for auction details, full catalog with hundreds of photos, and bidding information.
610.566.3138 info@briggsauction.com
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Wayne, PA
610-688-9856
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VFES is celebrating 60 years in special education! Its signature programs, The Vanguard School, CWS and Adult and Recreation Services, offer educational, summer and employment programs for people with special needs.
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The show must go on!
Online!
Online gallery opens on
Friday, April 24 at 5 PM.
We know many of you look forward to the Yellow Springs Art Show every spring, so we are bringing the show to you!
We will be adding new galleries,
so follow us on social media
for updates!
yellowsprings.org
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REGISTER TODAY!
The next primary election is on June 2, 2020.
With Pennsylvania's new vote-by-mail rules, you have plenty of time to arrange to cast your 2020 primary and general election votes from home.
Apply now to receive your mail-in ballot for the primary and opt-in to also receive a mail-in ballot for the general election in November.
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From Ebeneezer Scrooge and Sherlock Holmes to your neighbors in Kennett Square, the people, places, and stories that connect us take center stage in our
2020/2021 Season.
Read more at
peopleslight.org.
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MENTAL HEALTH
DURING COVID
National Alliance on
Mental Illness
Main Line PA list of support groups
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Support Group Central
Free or low-cost virtual support groups
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Psych Central
Features online resources, quizzes, news, an “Ask theTherapist” function, and support communities
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Mental Health America
has all the tools you could
ever want!
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IN NEED... We're all in this together!
Chester County Food Bank
Food and monetary donations are critically needed. Consider becoming a Beyond Hunger 365 donor.
Covid
Donate
Wayne Food Pantry
210 South Wayne Avenue, Wayne
Drop off bin located outside the parking lot door between
10am-1 pm (temporary location during the pandemic)
Donations: bread, pasta, peanut butter, jelly, spaghetti sauce, toiletries
Wayne Food Pantry
Upper Merion Community Cupboard
191 Town Center Road, King of Prussia
Thursdays, 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesdays, 9:00 AM drop-off - fruits, vegetables, milk only
Donation pick-up or drop-off: Contact@UMACC.org
Non-perishable food donations drop offs and donation bins:
- Outside UMACC doors – 191 Town Center Road; entrance off Independence Road
- UM Community Center – 431 W. Valley Forge Road
- UM Township Building – 175 W. Valley Forge Road
- Rep. Tim Briggs’ office – 580 Shoemaker Road
UMACC
Foundation for Delaware County
Delaware County
Donors to the Delaware County COVID-19 Response Fund: “Gift Designation".
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