People who leave their families’ Thanksgiving dinners to line up outside Wal-Mart for Black Friday shopping are calling out other people for buying too much toilet paper. People who swarmed gun shops to buy firearms before President Scary Black Man and Mean Bossy Lady took them away are telling other people they are being ridiculous …
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Care Package for Friday, March 13, 2020
Happy Birthday: Percival Lowell, astronomerBorn March 13, 1855 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91cIlQQaQEQ 50 States, 100 Weeks: Gilmore Ghost Town, Leadore, ID Photo credit: atlasobscura Music: Over & Over by The Delfonics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqPrD80am1I Poetry: What He Thought by Heather McHugh for Fabio Doplicher We were supposed to do a job in Italyand, full of our feeling forourselves (our …
The Morning After the Night Before
I woke up the same way I went to bed: thinking about COVID-19. I’m sure I’m not the only one. “It can’t happen here” has been on a loop in my head since I got up. Not because I think this is true, but because America has suffered from this mentality since the Mayflower took …
Care Package for Thursday, March 12, 2020
Happy Birthday: Jack Kerouac, authorBorn March 12, 1922 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LLpNKo09Xk 50 States, 100 Weeks: Lionhead Natural Water Slides, Coolin, ID Photo credit: youtube.com Music: Think It Over by The Delfonics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r0Nl-rXJ30 Poetry: The Envoy of Mr. Cogito by Zbigniew Herbert, translated by Bogdana CarpenterGo where those others went to the dark boundaryfor the Golden Fleece of …
Toilet Paper, Prevention, and Inconvenience
I just got back from the grocery store. My family was almost out of toilet paper, and as COVID-19 events begin to move at a quicker pace, I decided I’d better go buy more before panic shopping really takes hold in northern Vermont. Turns out it was a good call. I managed to get some …
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