BSU Community “What We’re Doing These Days”: Home

My daughter and I have been doing crafts - mostly Diamond Dotz

blankets
Baby sweaters

I purchased an adult paint by numbers and found that doing an hour of this each night helps me unwind and shake off all the coronavirus anxiety of the day.

Cooking new more challenging recipes

Join the BSU Employee Gratitude Group for positive refection

My wife and I are avid gamers, board games and social video games have been a godsend for the past few weeks

dabbling in meteorology/climatology

I have decided to fill the "sounds of silence" in my home with the crackling of distant communications send via shortwave radio! This also happens to be a medium used quite frequently to keep the general public alerted to emergency situations, e.g, the weather!

Recommended by library staff member

Free; MBSR (secular);
Lots of offerings including yoga, meditation and discussions:

Many free meditations (a few directly on being with a crisis) and tons more if you subscribe; all levels

IBME is based on MBSR; aimed at youth/teens

Free workout videos for all
Facebook live daily 'work-ins' for members AND non-members

Free weekly meditation sessions

A faculty member from the English Department plays. Participated in the Attleboro Arts Museum entitled "A Ditty to Brighten your Day" that people can regularly check back on using the same link.

Listening to Youtube Music

Weekly zoom band rehearsals with band I play in based in North Kingstown, RI.

There are plenty of live webcams to see animals etc you may want to check out!

I've started using the Audubon Society's app on my phone to keep track of bird sightings in my neighborhood. It's a great resource for a calming and peaceful activity.

taking evening walks after dinner

Spreading mulch, and wood chips
Mowing lawns

trying to keep a similar bedtime/wake up routine with "blocks" throughout the day to keep things rolling.

PE with Joe. Millions of followers exercise with Joe. My daughters and I have had fun participating.

Easy Burn

free workout videos for all, Facebook live daily 'work-ins' for members AND non-members

Taylor Hall

The YMCA has a website ymca360.org and a youtube channel. The website is the best! It offers workouts for adults, older adults and kids and adds new ones each week. They have bootcamps and kickboxing and HIIT and they also have excellent yoga and tai chi - really a great resource! My family and I use it all the time!

Volunteer at operation paperback, a project for which we collect donated paperback books and send them to deployed and stateside troops as a gesture of kindness and diversion from their arduous tasks.

Curtiss Hoffman, c1hoffman@bridgew.edu, I am working on the initiative to get Ranked Choice Voting on the Massachusetts ballot. We obtained 110,000 certified signatures for this last Fall, but we need an additional 14,000 this Spring - by June 15th - to finalize it. Under current conditions, the Secretary of the Commonwealth is permitting us to collect signatures electronically. Anyone who is registered to vote in Massachusetts who would like to sign on can do so via this link: