How do I quarantine with thee? Let me count the ways.I quarantine with thee in the depth and breadth and height of this house,The square footage of which is not nearly enoughFor feeling out of (your) sight when you need somethingThough you are consistently unable to see that I am on the phone.For the ends … Continue reading How do I Quarantine with Thee?
Quivervoice in Quarantine
Longing for the light
I wrote this last year, when Christmas shopping was still a thing, and teachers taught at schools. I couldn't have known then--none of us could--how much more true it would be this year. Distances and longing, indeed. I was browsing in a new store a couple of weeks ago. Strains of an old and favorite … Continue reading Longing for the light
The Day When Nothing Happened (2020 edition)
I first wrote and published this a few years ago, but it has never been more relevant than it is this year, this Holy Saturday, in the waiting. It's Holy Saturday today, a day when nothing happened. It gets lost amid all the flashier days of Holy Week but it is the part that, especially … Continue reading The Day When Nothing Happened (2020 edition)
Holey Thursday
I have become more than a little lax in recent years about attending all of the rituals of the Easter holy days. This is particularly true if they happen to conflict, as Holy Thursday foot washing services often do, with spring break activities that I consider, in my increasingly rag-tag belief system, to also be … Continue reading Holey Thursday
Ordinary Time
It turned out to be at its coming in and not at its leaving when March was actually the lamb; it left us yesterday with the lion, and lions, it turns out, can kill you. Even the warning of the soothsayer to "Beware the ides of March" seems more foreboding when you think about what … Continue reading Ordinary Time
Quarantine, Day 5
Trying a schedule today, using information from Days 1-4 8:15 AM Drag self from bed, in shirt worn yesterday + pajama pants 8:20-11:00 AM Drink coffee and scroll Facebook mindlessly. Consider extensive cleaning and knitting projects that could be completed during this time, as well as individual sports that could be mastered and languages that … Continue reading Quarantine, Day 5
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