These days, while the world seems to be have been turned upside down with COVID-19, there is alarming unrest in our country and a presidential election looms, I’m finding it all almost too much to deal with. To help me to cope, I’m trying to see other aspects of the new normal.

A few days ago while shopping in a fabric store, I noticed most of the other shoppers wearing what seemed to be homemade masks in bright, cheery colors, cute prints and one with a large smiley face drawn on a white…