You’ll Be In My Heart- Disney Sing-A-Long
This time last year we were all in unfamiliar territory. The quarantines for Covid has all locked in our homes, social distancing became the new norm, and none of us really had any idea what was coming next. Having just moved to Kentucky the previous fall and into my new home in December, I spent the months of quarantine on my own. It is funny, thinking back on the one day a week I would leave the house to get food or cigarettes, or maybe treat myself to carry out, I would shower and shave and pick out decent outfit just for these rare outings. My phone was my social life line to stay connected with family five hours away.
The quarantine wasn’t much different from normal life really as I’ve been on my own for several years now. Even the lack of work, life had prepared me for as I had been laid off for seven months in 2019. But as the months dragged on, even I started bouncing off the walls and my antisocial soul started missing real life interaction.
Mother’s Day rolled around and of course, there was no get togethers, but Disney aired a special Sing-A-Long for the holiday, and for an hour, various artists sang favorite Disney songs from their homes, or in prepared Zoom presentations, and some of the stars from Disney on Broadway put together this one. I don’t know if it was my mood, my isolation, or just the fact that it was that good, but it immediately took its place as a favorite performance. I watched it hundreds of times, I shared it with friends and family who were struggling with the quarantine, and when loneliness would occasionally set in and I was homesick for my life in Ohio, it served as a home remedy. And a year later, it still has efficacy in that capacity.
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