Today is March 25 which means it is my name day! My Greek name is Evangelia which means the messenger of good news. Since we can’t celebrate in person year, I decided to take the celebration online. 🙂
It might seem like these days all you see are depressing events and statistics, but that’s not the full picture. There are a lot of beautiful things happening too. I’ve made a list below. If you have something you’d like to add to this list, message me here, and I’ll include it.
Happy March 25th. ❤️
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The Goo Goo Dolls’ lead singer held a porch concert to help local small businesses impacted by coronavirus
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Formula 1 race car teams work with UK authorities to repurpose their expertise to build ventilators, which are required and in short supply for those with serious cases of COVID-19.
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Fashion designer Christian Siriano and Dov Charney repurpose their workshops to make face masks and medical gowns
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Spanish police sing to families in lockdown in Mallorca
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L’Oreal starts a solidarity initiative and is arming health care, pharmacy and food distribution workers with hand sanitizer to help fight the coronavirus.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk is gearing up to donate 250,000 N95 face masks for hospitals and to begin production of ventilators with the goal of having 1,000 ready by next week.
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Italian volunteers reverse engineer 3D-printed valves for life-saving coronavirus treatments
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And if you’re looking for good news around beating the coronavirus, I’ve got that for you too. Read on here!
One parting gift: I’m offering a free distance yoga class on Thursday, March 26th from 20:00-21:00 Greek time. The link is here. No need to pre-register–just click on the link a few minutes before 20:00. If you haven’t used Zoom before, be sure to install it before the class.
How did I become Evangelia? Here is the story…
In one of my early years in Greece, I was taking a taxi home from a yoga class. It was the taxi driver’s name day, and he was getting call after call from his friends sending him best wishes. We started talking about name days, and he saw that I was sad I would never have a Greek name day with my American name “Lynn.” “We will give you a name!” was his response. He went through several options but ultimately decided I would be “Evangelia.” He was very thorough and had me write it down. I even found the paper when I was cleaning up last year. It is here. And that is how I became Evangelia.
Part two of the story is that I became a Nona (godmother) in 2019 and in order to be a proper Nona, I got baptized Greek Orthodox, making the name Evangelia official. It is hard to imagine that around this time last year I was standing in a white bathing suit in a Greek church having water poured over me. Life is funny. 🙂