Home-bound due to coronavirus, people are chalking hope on sidewalks

All over the region, people have discovered a way to help one another battle a new sense of isolation in this coronavirus pandemic as people social distance with a simple and universal antidote: Chalk.
Reassuring messages abound on sidewalks and driveways: You matter. You will be OK. This too shall pass.
Dogs like Abel may not need reminders to be happy, but humans do — especially during the coronavirus crisis. Seal Beach residents Kimberly Freely and her children created this sidewalk art