“Different countries, different gestures, one impulse: to reach, to connect, to bond, to defy separation. Whether through a hedge, a screen, a postcard, or a drone, we found ways to bridge the distance. During the pandemic we learned that affection doesn’t always need proximity—it needs imagination. Six years on, that truth remains. Love, like light, bends around corners.” - Viney Kirpal on the creative ways people found to support loved ones during the pandemic, including her own family, on what would otherwise have been a very lonely 71st birthday. In Oldster Magazine.