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Here are things that feel important that I want to remember and that I will add to when I feel like.

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- April 28, 2020

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Right Now Anxiety

- July 28, 2020

As expected, it's been a while since I wrote here. Just wanting to add right now that I am having that awful feeling that "nothing terrible has happened to me or loved ones personally, so I am complacent and lulled into a false sense that nothing is GOING to happen to me or loved ones." Limbo. We keep swimming in the above ground pool (second time we've filled it after it sprang two leaks) and cooking and camping and playing games and making collages. And trying to stay positive and remembering that societies have survived illness and civil unrest and lived to talk about it and pass on the stories so people in the future would be better prepared and equipped and more tolerant and compassionate.

Control

- August 07, 2020

The Chair of the Science Department at my school said the other day, "Maybe it's the microbiologist in me, but...if we make one mistake here, hopefully nobody dies!" The private school where I'm the librarian is opening in a few days. We're going to be on campus with over 500 students, faculty and staff at the same time. Yes, there have been extensive preparations. Yes, the public schools can't safely do what we're claiming that we can do. Yes, we're being provided shields (so they say, but I haven't gotten mine yet), there's hand sanitizer around every corner, cohorts will be cohorting on their own all day. But I'm a Specialist and I'm going to be visiting over 100 different kids every day. People are being asked not to travel by air. I've operated all summer under the naive notion that because I know the small group of people I've been hanging out with well and I know what they've been up to, it's been okay. I've b...

Big flowers

- May 11, 2020

every morning is another chance last night was last night it's right now time there's pollen now some of it smells like rough perfume there's the sound of the fountain relentless cleansing there's breeze lazy, swaying branches pine needles shimmying stillness and lonely-blanket quiet when the boys are gone there's love and potential and growth and understanding there's LIFE still this morning there's another chance to take four steps back and just hold your heart and let out a breath and say THANK YOU