It seems that Evelyn, Duke Marie and I watch more TV now than normal due to our home distancing during this world-wide COVID-19 pandemic. We primarily watch old car restorations. We have been challenged by not being able to get the parts we need to work on our old cars when we want them due to this pandemic. I have learned more patience. Evelyn challenges me …really?
Most recent old car restoration programs were filmed before the COVID-19, and the hosts don’t wear masks. I often watch them often before I start my routine day’s efforts.
I recently thought of my reason for all of this. I came to a conclusion I need to continue positively in this crazy world. I need to stay busy, hear me out.
We love old camp trailers and old cars. We love people. We recently did a vintage trailer round-up in Dolores, Colorado, where we met old trailer enthusiasts with old trailers, mostly from N.M. trying to escape the daily humdrum of the overwhelming news and politics, and just wanting to group and visit with other vintage trailer people trying to escape the TV and social media for a weekend of solitude. We thoroughly enjoyed this weekend event. Social distancing was the norm. Through masks and six feet apart we got to know people with our same interests.
We returned home somewhat refreshed and thought that maybe we were returning to normalcy and the COVID was going away. No such luck.
Daily we have tuned in to the old car restoration channels and then I happened to recognize a different one last Sunday. This “restoration channel” was a Christian channel I found when surfing though the viewing selections. It was a Christian worship service. I thought of restorations and recognized that perhaps one needs to restore one’s faith as well as old cars. We have watched the Catholic mass often on Sundays as churches are requiring social distancing and we are not yet comfortable in attending church services in person. There are other bible based programs as well. “Fenders or souls”…there is hope for all to reach a final blessed restoration.
New fenders …. new commitment. Old paint….old memories. Restored car … restored faith! Change parts….change commitment. How do we go forward with old dents and bumps and scrapes from the past or souls that we refuse to recognize and accept as our responsibility and try to heal going forward... for the final judging so to speak?
Cars to restore and souls to restore…..on the
Restoration channels!