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from the<br />
editor<br />
Home for<br />
the Holidays!<br />
2020<br />
the year no one will forget. First, the global<br />
pandemic, followed by: quarantine, face masks,<br />
social distancing, toilet paper crisis, lockdown,<br />
work from home, hand sanitizer, virtual events, cancelled sports, Zoom,<br />
travel bans, curbside pickup, essential workers, binge watching TV, home<br />
workouts, e-learning, isolation, Amazon, driveway happy hours, driveby<br />
celebrations, panic buying, Hulu, You Tube, Netflix, Tik-Tok, elections,<br />
hurricanes, fires, and murder hornets.<br />
Oh, what a year this has been!<br />
Thankfully, our Village by the Sea has survived 2020 – because of our<br />
residents and our loyalty to local businesses. We continued to support the<br />
merchants that make our City special by ordering take out and curbside<br />
pickup from restaurants, participating in virtual workouts from our favorite<br />
gyms, and purchasing DIY spa and hair treatments from spas and salons.<br />
Now the holidays are here and being home for the holidays will be<br />
wonderful. Our Downtown Development Authority has been busy organizing<br />
safe, socially distanced events around town. Beginning with Very Merry<br />
Mondays Holiday Stroll. Mondays from 4-7 in a different neighborhood there<br />
is a stroll highlighting businesses, with carolers, photo ops, and more!<br />
We have a new Commissioner in town! Our City Person Juli Casale ran an old<br />
school grassroots campaign, walking through neighborhoods for over three<br />
months, knocking on 6,000 doors! This Harvard grad is an environmentalist,<br />
tennis player, and animal lover.<br />
Not ready to be indoors? No problem! With temperatures cooling down,<br />
outdoors is where we should be! Dine outside, walk, and hang out at the<br />
beach for fresh air and salt therapy.<br />
Now is the time<br />
to know that all<br />
you do is sacred…<br />
Now is the time<br />
for you to deeply<br />
compute the<br />
impossibility that<br />
there is anything<br />
but grace.<br />
COPYRIGHTED<br />
— Hafiz<br />
Yvette birdsong, editor
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