| Journal | 6 June 2020 Life in the time of COVID |
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"See how good and pleasant it is when brothers and sisters live together in harmony!" Psalm 133:1 (GW) |
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01 Bryant Smith's poem, "Pandemic", is a flashback to when the coronavirus scare was most pervasive. A time when some people became hoarders and grocery store shelves became empty. | | |
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“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
- Rumi - |
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02 Below is an excerpt from "How Many Miles" by Jane Burn "We tap into Twitter’s lifeblood, gorge ourselves ill on someone else’s panic, latch onto some grain of seeming sense, someone’s offering of word or song. We mourn upon the horror-daily stats of tragic deaths." | | |
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03 As restrictions lift, and protests remain rife, Bradley W. Buchanan's poem "Welcome to My Reality (A Cancer Survivor on COVID-19)" reminds us we still need to protect the immunosuppressed members of our society by acting responsibly. | | |
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04 To close off this issue, enjoy the flash fiction piece "Mutability in a State of Emergency" by Bob Beagrie | | |
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'Power' - Spoken WordBlack power White power All people power Black, Brown, Red, White, Yellow We all bleed red We are one race: Human Your people My people All people Black lives matter White lives matter All lives matter Every side's got its history We just need to dig far back enough Every |
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Submit | Valiant ScribeIn a span of a few months, life, as we know it has been upended as humanity tries to cope with the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic. Valiant Scribe is calling for submissions that focus on faith and social issues that are often not talked about in polite conversation, topics such as menstrual hygiene management, sexual violence, poverty, criminal justice, human trafficking, mental health, unknown inventors, people of color, and climate change among others. |
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