Collected Item: “Old bear!”
Give your story a title.
Old bear!
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
Photo and short story
Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.
All the playgrounds were shut and it was school holidays. The kiddies had only bikes and walks as nothing was open at all during our period of lockdown. A young mother I vaguely knew was walking past one day and I said I was meaning to drag some bears out of the shed and she was so pleased as she was finding it hard to keep her 6 year old entertained. For the next 4 weeks they walked past every day and she sent me a message saying her young daughter was making up stories about Old Bear. In a very small way, Old Bear helped her and the other kiddies who would help out when they saw Old Bear. I felt in a small way we were helping to brighten someone's day.
Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?
Old-bear, Covid19, Lockdown, Walks, Imagination, Community, Kindness.
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
Asra Bechaz
Give this story a date.
2020-03