Because of COVID, I started playing tunes at home with a fiddler and a guitarist. We are not quite good yet, but we can see it from where we are.

And choir practice on Zoom. Not my idea of fun, but better than no choir practice at all.

The other new things did not arise from COVID, but from the unexpected death of my dear husband at Thanksgiving. Suddenly I had to do rather a lot of new things, and some were actually not awful.

For example, I bought a brand new car, and it is precisely the car I wanted, not a compromise negotiated between my preference for economy and smart handling, Edmund's yen for long road trips and taking EVERYTHING with us, and the limitations of the bank account.

Also, I'm consciously counting my blessings, and learning to live one day, one hour or even just one minute at a time.