Tag: covid
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The Enforced Brake – Covid Part 5
The hardest weeks of lockdown brought something I didn’t expect: a strange rational calm. Not my usual response to difficulty. Something had shifted, and I was still figuring out what.
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Rain, Tables, and a Job Offer – Covid Part 4
Week seven brought a job offer and a wet walk through the nature reserve. Week ten brought the particular exhaustion of the middle stretch… neither crisis nor normal, just the…
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Small Acts of Ridiculous – Covid Part 3
Getting drunk on a video call and shaving my head. Watching a seven-year-old discover that Infinity War does not have a happy ending. Lockdown weeks that were smaller and stranger…
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The Blackest Good Friday – Covid Part 2
Week three of lockdown. Good Friday, April 2020. Written in real time, which is the only reason I’d share it. Some things are only honest when they’re written in the…
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An Observer No Longer – Covid Part 1
March 2020. For the first time in my life, I wasn’t watching from a distance. Isaac came home from school on a Thursday and didn’t go back for months.