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Day Forty-Three: The Economy

May 8, 2020

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in Blogroll, Income Inequality, Love in the Time of Coronavirus, Meme Analysis, Social Distancing, Socioeconomics, Stay at Home Order, Work

I mentioned I have been re-reading Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens. Like many, he writes about what makes us Homo sapiens so special. Why are we the dominant organism on the planet, and not lions, or wolves, or bears, or any number of other species that could eat us up in a few big bites? His…

Day Forty-Two: Opening

May 6, 2020

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in Love in the Time of Coronavirus, Masks, Social Distancing, Socioeconomics, Stay at Home Order

Colorado has moved to a “safer-at-home” footing, rather than a stay-at-home order, but my county, in coordination with five other metro area counties, decided to extend the stay at home order. That extension is almost up. On Saturday, Jefferson County will take its first tentative steps to reopen. We can’t all stay home forever. And…

Day Forty-One: Drift

May 6, 2020

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in Love in the Time of Coronavirus, Social Distancing, Stay at Home Order

It’s hard to believe we’ve been on lockdown in my county for forty-one days. We’ve officially been sequestered longer than Noah and the animals. I want my rainbow, dove, and olive branch now, if you please. The days are slipping past, and they’re all more or less the same. Wake, TV news, articles, exercise, writing,…

Day Forty: Spring

May 4, 2020

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in #getoutside, Gratitude, Income Inequality, Love in the Time of Coronavirus, Socioeconomics, Spring, Stay at Home Order, The Nature, What it Could Look Like

Spring has finally gotten it’s act together and shown up here in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It’s about damned time! Like many people, spring is my favorite time of year. The green of new growth is one of my favorite colours, and the bustle of the birds and proliferation of plants suggests an…

Day Thirty-Nine: Cross-Species Friendship

May 4, 2020

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in Dog, Love in the Time of Coronavirus, Social Distancing, Stay at Home Order

As I may have mentioned, I participate in @dorianmases Instagram photography challenges. The latest was to take a picture featuring a shadow or shadows. While playing around with the camera and the dog, I got this shot, which I entered. Part of the challenge is to put some good text with the photo, a little…

Day Thirty-Eight: Unity?

May 2, 2020

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in Love in the Time of Coronavirus, Polarization, Social Distancing, Stay at Home Order

Yesterday, David Brooks pointed something out on The News Hour. He cited a Kaiser Family Foundation poll from April 23rd (so a little dated) that showed that 80% of Americans support strict shelter in place restrictions. He uses this statistic to show that Americans are united in way we haven’t been in a very, very…

Day Thirty-Seven: Costco

May 2, 2020

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in Love in the Time of Coronavirus, Masks, Social Distancing, Stay at Home Order

I did a monster Costco shop on March 17th, and I hadn’t been back to the store since. I guess I didn’t really have to go today. We have beans and rice and frozen vegetables. But I was out of such staples as popcorn and breakfast and fresh fruit. Costco was weird. Of course it…

Day Thirty-Six: History

May 1, 2020

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in Income Inequality, Love in the Time of Coronavirus, Social Distancing, Socioeconomics, Stay at Home Order, What it Could Look Like

I spent too much of my day exploring the history of pandemics via this list of links from Pocket. It made me think about how our relationship with death and contagion has changed since antibiotics and vaccines became widespread. Now it is, in the developed world at least, unusual for kids to have a friend…

Day Thirty-Five: Drive

Apr 29, 2020

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in Love in the Time of Coronavirus, Social Distancing, Stay at Home Order, The Nature

Mom hadn’t left the house in thirty seven days. That’s not healthy. Today we violated the spirit of the quarantine. We drove. We drove south and west over Kenosha Pass and through South Park. We turned on Colorado 9 and drove up through Breckenridge and then turned on US 6 and drove most of the…

Day Thirty-Four: Luminous

Apr 29, 2020

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in #getoutside, Gratitude, Love in the Time of Coronavirus, Socioeconomics, Spring, Stay at Home Order, The Nature

Spring is finally here, and the days are utterly luminous. I’ve written before about living in the Märchenwald, the fairy tale forest where all the stories are true and urgent. This never seems more so than when spring is on the land. The generative mystery of sprouting seeds and the sudden appearance of flowers where…

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