Doing good can bring you comfort by making you feel useful


Chabon and his wife are feeling useful finding ways to help their community during this crisis. — GAGE SKIDMORE/Wikimedia Commons

AS we shelter in place, hunkered down, washing our hands, it’s easy to feel helpless, and worse, to feel useless. We endlessly refresh our browsers and in boxes for news about the progress of this pandemic. About overwhelmed hospitals and health workers. Unem-ployment and economic instability.

The news is all there, all the time, along with the pain and suffering. But what can we actually do to help when we can’t even leave our homes?

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