Lay of the Land
Writing the Pandemic Slant
I had lost the writer part of me who could pull meaning, maybe even art, up out of events and float it over the words. I stopped trying. Continue reading
Pandemic
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VIDEO: Walk Through This Socially Distanced Choir Forest
IN THE DEPTHS of the pandemic, when choral groups could not safely gather to sing indoors, The Crossing Choir of Philadelphia took their singing outdoors, into parks and open-air venues. Continue reading
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Jane Goodall Is Here to Remind You: “We Are Nature”
“I hope we emerge from this pandemic . . . with a new respect for nature, the natural world, and animals.” Dame Jane Goodall THE LOCKDOWNS around the world kept us Continue reading
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Waiting for the Elvers
Despite these painful conversations, I am holding on to hope. Because two young boys, in the quiet time of a global pandemic, fell in love with slithery eels. Continue reading
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COVID: Etymologies of the Word That Changed Everything
covid: n. ~ co (corona) vi (virus) d (disease) Abbreviated name of the novel corona virus 2019. A nonword/word spreading virally, a word used in an attempt to understand, in Continue reading