Are You in Lockdown? Celebrate Your Community by Putting Your Holiday Lights Back Up! #CoronaLights

We want to start a new tradition; in these darkening times let’s put our holiday lights back up and celebrate each other.

In this time of sheltering at home and social distancing, it’s easy to feel isolated from our neighbors and even our family members who live nearby, but whom we may not be able to visit face-to-face. And if the indications are to be believed, things are going to get worse before they get better.

But it’s often out of the most difficult times that the most enduring traditions evolve.

Here’s the idea:

Put your holiday lights back up and turn them on for an hour (or longer) after dark each night. If possible, while they’re on, go out with your family and stand in front of your house or apartment and wave and chat (from an appropriate distance) with your neighbors. Make sure they’re okay, and just be positive with each other. Take pictures, and post them with #CoronaLights.

Here’s the background:

Just yesterday my wife and I were walking our dogs in our Bay Area neighborhood where almost everyone is sheltering-in-place due to the Corona virus pandemic. One of our neighbors was out playing with his kids in the…