How would it be if we all practiced the arts of intimacy, contact, availability and reciprocity together when on Zoom calls -

if we reached through the screen to the people on the other side, and opened ourselves so they could reach us,

if we attended to the environments we call from so that we feel held, nurtured (from what we sit on, to what we have with and around us - flowers? - to how we light our space so we can see and feel illuminated), and to the environment we present to others (lighting, sound) so that we do the same,

and if we learn to become skilful with the medium so we can make choices to see who is talking or the whole group, so we can get more of a sense of looking at one another eye-to-eye.

I think it's eminently possible that working together on Zoom can be a sacred practice if we attend to it that way - if we attend to our inner practices of attention and practice, our personal practices of body, posture, stance and softness, our relational practices of welcome and reciprocity, and our 'thing and place' practices of technology, space etc.

It's going to take intentional practice to do this, but I really think that very much is possible and we don't all have to resign ourselves to being exhausted all the time.