We all remember 2020, right? All the feels were there: worried, anxious, angry, sad, frustrated, shocked. All the things we didn’t do, would have wanted to do but couldn’t. Many of us felt powerless, too. I remember thinking I didn’t have any medical background and couldn’t possibly help the frontline responders, but surely, I could do something!
Then, I learned that my next-door neighbor was doing the weekly grocery shopping for another neighbor of ours who happened to be immunocompromised. They weren’t friends, just friendly acquaintances. But my next-door neighbor figured it was something she could do to help, and so she did. And I thought to myself, that’s the way to do it.
But I still didn’t know what to do. At some point during the pandemic, I came across a map, a framework developed by Deepa Iyer1, that helped me see how I might be able to contribute in a small way.
Fast forward to 2024, and many of us are facing yet another overwhelming moment — when the weight of events makes it…