Also Lost in the Pandemic – Group Hugs

If you have ever been in a group that needed to give someone a group hug, you know that there is nothing else that will do. And if you have ever been that person who needed a group hug, you also know there can be no substitute.

Here you see a group of Methodist teenagers in December, 2017, after they received news that their youth director was moving from Chapelwood 1 to Chapelwood 2 up the road in Houston. The hug was their spontaneous, genuine, and deeply felt gift. The photographer barely had time to point the camera.

This is not something that can ever happen in a Zoom meeting.

And that, my friends, is all our loss.

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Author: Lake Jackson Citizen

I volunteered many years as a photographer for Brazosport Center Stages, our local community theater. I have opinions about politics and believe it is every American's duty to be informed, to participate in the discussion of issues, and to vote. I hope to be able to share photographs and information relating to cultural and political events in our community. I am retired after a career in social work and post-secondary​ education. I enjoy friendships with people of many faiths and political persuasions. However, in my life I have developed a particular fondness for United Methodists and Democrats. But we are all in the fight for justice together.

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