“My overwhelming urge to clean the entire house top to bottom was very much fueled by something other than myself…”
“Do I follow my initial reaction to go over, help pick up his bike, dust him off, and get him back on the road to catch up with his group—a group who hasn’t yet noticed he has fallen?”
“For a lot of us, it is not the same unimaginable grief felt by those who have lost loved ones to this pandemic. But it is grief nonetheless—a kind of hollow emptiness”
“We just started a time capsule together, to track more information for us to remember in the future, but I guess that the best part will be to ask them to write a letter for them to read in the future.”
“It is pointless to take these practices for preparation for a competition, because the competition doesn’t currently exist. To use the sportsman lingo, what I can do is maintenance work.”
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