The Store is about to re-open: see www.michaelwillemsphoto.com. It will be around this weekend (store preparation depends on supplies). In any case, I am preparing. It feels good.

Yes, it’s dramatic… but I do not think it is overly dramatic. These are, after all, dramatic times, where everything we hold dear (like enough money to eat; a car to drive; people to be close to) is suddenly changed or uncertain.

Fortunately, the studio will eventually open again. And I have enough trust in humanity to believe that people will come back, eventually.

It is getting serious: financially and psychologically, many people will not be able to take much more of this. 75 days and counting, and “social distancing” will be, say many, the “new normal”. Not a normal I would like to live with, frankly.

But there are ways to lighten the effect. One is to do the normal things, but do them online – interactively, live, with actual people in real time. Check out my courses, which I now teach online in real time. And if you haven’t done so yet, do check out my YouTube channel (link on the right). And stay strong.