This year I attended the Sixth Annual Lighting Ceremony at the Covid-19 Memorial Rami’s Heart in Wall, New Jersey.

Where did 6 years go? It seems like it was yesterday that people were making sourdough bread and complaining that they couldn’t go out while the remainder of us suffered in silence and in solitude.

There were 35,000 people who lost their lives in New Jersey and no one even remembers them. They used before Covid as a time that they had restrictions on them and had not had a loss so unbelievable that it changed them forever.

I was fortunate to be surrounded by people at the Memorial who understand it all — the 6 years, my heartache.

Ed and Marla drove together with me and it still takes your breath away to see all those stones in the yellow hearts.

How life can change so quickly and yet people forget that Covid even exists.