Virginia C Dellow

2020 The Year We Will Not Forget Virginia C Dellow

2020 has been a year like no other with the rules of our world being rewritten, etching their way into the history books. Each day has exactly physical and emotional trauma on so many with millions affected by Covid_19. Thousands upon thousands of people who have lost loved ones or who have fought this disease on the frontline now have to live through the reality of the devastation left in its wake. Others have had to completely re-order their lives with the burden of financial and health worries being imprinted on their daily life from the economic fallout through to the psychological ramifications of these times. Still more have had to face struggles with loneliness and mental health with days blending into weeks of shapeless unending relentlessness. And others moreover have had to learn to juggle teaching their children whilst also holding onto precarious jobs working and living from home. The pandemic has touched the lives of each and every person in a year like no other. As we have moved through the year, festivals have taken on new directions with many a celebration completely altered from the traditions of previous years. Christmas then will doubtless need to blend as well. This book then recalls Christmas past with some specially written for Christmas 2020. Forty festive poems in an extraordinary year.