| Journal | 20 June 2020 Life in the time of COVID |
|
|
"Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves." Philippians 2:3 (ESV) |
|
|
01 During this pandemic, we rely on our essential workers. But what is it like in the mind of an essential worker? Linda M. Crate offers her perspective in her poem, “Essential Worker”. | | |
|
|
“My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.”
- Desmond Tutu - |
|
|
02 From its first lines, “Viral Logic” hooks in the reader with a distressing thought...one we might have had at the beginning of the pandemic. Susan Hodara paints a chilling picture of the anxiety and paranoia caused by the pandemic. | | |
|
|
03 Donna Pucciani describes the new reality for a fashion model in Italy during the coronavirus pandemic in her poem, “Fashion Week, Milan 2020”. | | |
|
|
04 As a result of COVID, Rick Blum must meet over Zoom for lunch with his friends. Their shared autoimmune disease makes it especially dangerous to go out. His short piece, “Drive Free Lunches: A New Paradigm,” gives insight to how they’re all adjusting to life during the pandemic. | | |
|
|
If you were forwarded this e-mail, you can sign up for this round-up here: |
|
|
|
|
