Erin Leigh and Bunny Young talk about week five of quarantine and what they've noticed about themselves. Both found unexpected gifts in staying home: more time to write, space for hobbies, no rush to go back. They're thinking about building a life that keeps the best parts.
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There we go. All right. Hi, Erin. Wait. Hi, Erin. I know this is like the Brady Bunch. I probably couldn't track all of the conversations, but. So thank you for joining me. Well, first off, thanks for sending the video. I appreciated the one teaser video that you sent. There were geese in the background. I don't know if that was. I don't know if you were aware of that, but since we're working together on the book for Goose, I just thought that was the universe being funny. Well, I'm glad that you were outside. Like, I feel like we're seeing a lot of zoom videos. You and I have our spark lights behind us, which is a good break. But I'm. I. Those white walls, like. And I just love that your video was outside, so I love that you're getting. So one of the things that I thought was a good discussion for us to have is being in quarantine in intro. In introversion. Quarantine. That wasn't English. Can you edit that for me real quick? Yes. Yeah. So, I mean, and I know because I am a introvert that can play in an extroverted world that's also like its own little subsection of introversion. So I just thought we could chat about that for a second. Yeah. Yeah. Well. And I can tell you that I'm enjoying not going to the store. I'm enjoying not going into town. I'm enjoying not driving into. Okay, so I'm enjoying like, going. Not going into town. I'm enjoying not. Let me know if that's better because I. I turn the volume up. Oh, well, I mean, that's just part of this conversation. I'm actually using this guy. So I'm. I'm hoping that that's. No, I didn't. I can. I can put my face on it and snuggle with it, but that would just be the screen. So for the rest of this discussion, I'm going to feel like I just gotta hold it right here. And. Are you getting the pieces of the earth in the background from my green screen? That's fine. That's perfect. So, yeah, I mean, I didn't anticipate that when I painted. When I painted the wall green, I was not anticipating green screen. But this is kind of one of those silver lining things. So with the introversion thing, one of the. One of the things that is interesting is I'm recognizing I am not envious or anxious to get back to going to the store and going back into town. And, you know, I live out in the middle of the country. And I'm like, not. I'm not stoked about that. And people are like, can't we just get back to the new normal? And I'm like, I'm. I'm okay for right now. I'm not going to say I'm going to be okay in two more weeks of this. This is what, week five for where we're at. But there's a lot of feelings out there that are being put out there that are being put out as global feelings. And I can tell you that they're not bunny feelings right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm. I'm jotting down little pieces of almost like a recipe list for the life that I'm looking forward to in the future of what pieces and parts of the silver lining that I found from the quarantine and from the shelter in place and a mixture of what things brought me joy and that I enjoyed from when we didn't have mandatory shelter in place. And I feel like it's going to be one heck of a recipe and one heck of a dish that I cook up in the future. And I'm really looking forward to that. You know, and there are pieces and parts of like, I think I sent you at one point, like seven different pieces of writing in one day. And I don't think that's probably gonna happen in the future, but it felt good for that moment. Well, I'm gonna let you get back to that self time. I do appreciate you giving me some of your time and sharing that with difference makers as well as the recording that I know is going to be in that teaser video that by the time people watch this video, they'll probably have already heard the geese and seeing your little teaser video. So. And then I also look forward to, I think I tapped you to host some of these difference makers conversations. So once these come out, I guess you can chat your the way that only Aaron can with some of your difference makers. Maybe we can get some from France. And I'm not saying do it in French because I would have to hit the books really hard to keep up with that difference makers conversation. But I think there's an opportunity that there's difference makers all across the world. And this is one of those things that we're experiencing as a world, as a human race. And that's really unique as well. So I just wanted to recognize that. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I think that's just being human and being aware of being a human, at least for me. And you know, I think that goes to rising tides raises all ships, boats, ducks that are sitting on the ocean. I think that's a good place to wrap this discussion up. And I'm probably gonna go sit with a cool beverage after this. So thank you for making a difference and being a difference maker, Aaron. And yeah, salu it.
