The Third Place

Starbucks came up with the concept of The Third Place I believe. (Remember going to a coffee shop?) I got a gift card in the mail the other day for Starbucks and burst into tears –

1) buy gift cards from local places to help them through this time and

2) will I ever be able to use this again? 

I digress…

I just want to remind myself and you of your third place.

Between Zooming, sleeping, and eating, my partner and I have developed a third place that I don’t even know we knew about until just now.

It was a few minutes past the hour – I had just logged off a webinar I led for a paying client (these are rare these days) and Loren opened the patio door to come in from outside – his man cave.

1:08pm.

We met in our third place.

Perhaps this is happening to you too.

We hug in the middle, walk to the bathroom. I go to the bathroom and he talks to me through the door. We switch places. We both wash our hands at the sink. We dry our hands-off. We hug.

I am back at my computer. He is back in his office.

1:20pm.

This is our new third place. I am grateful for it. If you haven’t found the third place where you can be seen, heard, hugged, and return to later – look for it.