Pandemic Notes
I was 15 when they started school-shooter drills.
A few days ago, I wrote this piece on Facebook in response to a Business Insider article about the riots at Capitol Hill on 6th
15 January, 2021
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Pandemic Notes
Just type: layers like duvets filled with lead
Just_type. No editing. Full-on whatever the hell comes out of the fingers goes on the screen. (I’ve not done this in a while). Sorry. Sorry
4 August, 2020
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Pandemic Notes
Good people are tired
Last week, I posted a Facebook announcement to a group of woodworkers that I administer. The post reiterated our inclusive stance and made it explicit
3 July, 2020
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Pandemic Notes
Pandemic Notes: layers, sleep, and it’s not yours to change.
A week of sleepless nights. I thought for sure I’d be asleep straight away. But, closing ones eyes often opens up the mind and heart.
9 June, 2020
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Pandemic Notes
Pandemic Notes: comic relief
When someone asked: “Wait. Why do we all wave at the end of Zoom meetings, now?” My reply: Cause you can’t find the unmute button,
8 June, 2020
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Life
Pandemic Notes: and our echoed voices come back
A friend posted a link to an article that said something about the disease mess were in right now. This friend has a different friendship
30 April, 2020
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Life
Pandemic Notes: I’m done breaking things down, I need to build them up again.
I’ve been exhorting people to create. To reach out, and make something, in this pandemic – this soul-sucking time that suffocates spirit by cutting off
14 April, 2020
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Life
Pandemic Notes: Quarantine introspection. It’ll kill you slowly, if you let it.
Thoughts follow thoughts, and patterns put a spin on them so they tend to go off in familiar directions. Right now, where I’m at, I’m
4 April, 2020
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Life
Pandemic Notes: Leaders in a time of crisis have a much greater responsibility.
As a kid, I was taught that leadership is a service role. It’s a position that exists to offer support and builds people up to fulfill their potential, and as a whole, move toward a common purpose.
3 April, 2020
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Life
Pandemic Notes: the shockwaves of future grief are so great, they’re already propagating into my here, now.
So, tonight, I’ve experienced unsettling turbulence as I’ve tried to follow and understand news. First, that bone-deep dread is starting to be called due across
31 March, 2020
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