Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

I took a walk with a friend today. Her partner had to cancel his 75th birthday party because of Omicron. They know people who, though fully vaccinated and boostered, have gotten the variant, and it's a little too cold to do the party outside right now. It's adding to a long list of celebrations not happening, events not occuring, and rituals not able to be attended to. She was feeling a bit low, and when I returned home my son said his son had been exposed today to Covid in his classroom. Everyone's jumpy. I won at Scrabble this afternoon, a rare occurence because my husband is more skilled and has phenomenal luck as well. But this time, I got the J,X and Z and he couldn't use the Q he drew for lack of a U. Otherwise he would have won. In the morning paper now there are more word puzzles, and he's been asking me about them, which is fun. I lend him my phone of Fridays to do the NYTimes News Quiz, which I usually score a bit higher. More trivia packed in my brain. And thus the days pass without enough stimulation and social interaction, but what can you do?