“I woke up late for school as usual and saw my phone filled with notifications about some virus. The breaking news said that there are thousands of people who are dead because of this virus. I read the news, it said that the virus is called COVID-19 or Coronavirus.”
“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…”
“I’m a 3 year old Labrador living with a retired bossie (LtCol in the Dutch Army) and a full time working female bossie. For my bossie and me hardly anything changed. We only have a partial lockdown in The Netherlands, so we can still do our daily walkies in the park…”
“Fica aquela sensação de ‘eu era feliz e não sabia’, ‘a vida é bela, só nos resta viver’. Ou então a musica do Milton Nascimento: ‘Maria , Maria, não vive, apenas aguenta’”
“My overwhelming urge to clean the entire house top to bottom was very much fueled by something other than myself…”
“…With the lockdown, I had the time to notice that the Navajo Willow tree in my front yard was sick. Had I not been stuck at home under this pandemic, I would not have noticed the smell—foul vegetable and yeast— from the tree. […] If not for the lockdown, I would never have had the time to observe the arrival of Spring…”
Life in Quarantine: Witnessing Global Pandemic is an initiative sponsored by the Poetic Media Lab and the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis at Stanford University.
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