
Spring is the perfect time to learn to love. When the world wakes up and blooms after a long winter, turning our gardens and neighborhoods pastel shades of pink and green, it’s hard to not feel our hearts blooming, too. But this year, echoing our (zoom) seders of just last week, is different than all other years. Learning to love looks different from inside our houses and apartments than it does in parks, in coffee shops, in classrooms. Love, so often shown with a hug or a brunch date, is now shifted to the domains of virtual happy hours or simultaneously making a recipe with a friend, or doing a yoga class, miles apart. Our isolation has us longing for a revival of Facebook pokes, both for the nostalgia (chain Instagram challenges, anyone?) and the physical contact.


