Tag: pandemic life
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A Librarian known as @PlaguePoems has been publishing them daily since the disaster began. Here’s one that speaks to our denial.
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In-home and residential care options for octogenarians have become extremely limited in these trying times, so I’ve been spending the last quarter of 2021 at my parents’ in the White Mountains. This will continue into 2022. I miss DC, but it’s not like I can take advantage of the city’s…
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Quotation: Dana Milbank on warped notions of freedom and community.
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My occasional pandemic nightmares used to scare me, but lately their pattern has become easy to recognize while sleeping. This change led me to a recording on YouTube of “The Thrill is Gone” by Roy Hawkins.
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Link to reflections by Emily Delaney on how we’re expecting way too much of our afternoon walks in this pandemic.
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Quotation: William Wan and Brittany Shammas on our imperviousness to horror when the latter is couched in statistics.
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A Candorville cartoon from mid-2020.
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Looking forward to a more productive week in quarantine now that martial law and the end of our democracy appear to be off the table for the time being.
