“At times, my focus flees, and my mind goes foggy and I find it unusually arduous to work on the two books I was writing before the world stopped. I become lost in my dark places and must turn to words and music. I cloister but I am not alone.
I turn to family and community to bring me back.”
“I was 8 months into cancer treatment when the pandemic became a headline. Suddenly, everyone else started seeing the world as I did: as a minefield of germs, a series of public interactions requiring masks and hand sanitizer, a reason to take meetings online and have groceries delivered. Fun fact: a visit to the cancer center, in the midst of COVID-19, looks pretty much the same as it did 6 months ago…”
“Het is grappig om te zien dat handen wassen opeens een big deal is , maar naar mijn mening is je handen wassen altijd iets meer dan normaal…”
“Ik heb mij soms wel geërgerd aan de maatregelen, zeker naarmate de kennis rond corona toenam aan hoe sommige mensen daarop reageerden. Ik begrijp het wel, het onbekende angstbeeld, maar heb mij wel afgevraagd waar het gezonde verstand van mensen gebleven was…”
“…I spread wide my arms,
stretch heart skyward
breathe deeply under
overarching boughs
and open my eyes
to a small universe
of grey-brown spheres
gently swaying
midst the frenzied
feeding,
each one so like a
tiny spiky
Death Star—
a perfect
wooden replica
of a COVID-19 cell…”
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