| Journal | 15 August 2020 Life in the time of COVID |
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"In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength..." Isaiah 30:15 (NIV) |
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01 In this short essay, titled This "Thoreauvian Moment", Bob Kunzinger analyzes Henry David Thoreau’s decision to leave society and live at Waldon Pond, and connects it to our distance from society in the wake of COVID. | | |
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“He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.”
- Henry David Thoreau - |
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02 Ndaba Sibanda pens a touching poem of appreciation and gratitude in "Credit to All the Front-line Healthcare Workers". Thanking them for their services during this health crisis. | | |
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03 Des Mannay puts a modern spin on the structure of Gwendolyn Brooks’ "We Real Cool" to speak to the times of the coronavirus in his poem "Social Dissonance" which is preceded by an article on the government's handling of the coronavirus in the United Kindgdom. | | |
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04 "Another Lock-down Day During the Covid-19 Crisis" is a piece of flash fiction from Silas Rallings which briefly describes his awe of nature even among the dangers of the virus. | | |
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A Tibetan Story by Almond SyiemWritten by Almond Syiem. I Behind snow-clad ranges is an enormous plateau of unfulfilled dreams. Beyond margins that draw lines between nations, wild horses gallop the bewildering landscape of a rugged people to whom he belonged. Reluctantly he had abandoned a residence of nomadic summers, virgin grasslands, and butter |
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