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  • Day 24

    Day 24 – Total confirmed cases in US: 399,929 “To believe in this living is just a hard way to go…” Here is just one of those confirmed cases. And one of the other number, the more horrific number: 83,471 deaths. He’s probably shaking God’s hand as you read this. Or maybe he’s kissing that Read more

  • Day 23

    Day 23 – Total confirmed cases in US: 368,449 Things I saw and heard yesterday, Between the time the sun came up and went down: A couple wearing surgical masks pushing a toddler on a tricycle Ray Charles blasting through a moon roof Day drinking as an Olympic event Bugs and tow-trucks and a swinging Read more

  • Day 22

    Day 22 – Total confirmed cases in US: 337,933 I didn’t know when I was a child That it was you I was in love with It didn’t have to be But it was I didn’t know where I would find The fairy in the forest The angel on Olympus Then there you were When Read more

  • Day 21

    Day 21 – total confirmed cases in US: 312,249 The public square will always have its necessary function. And nothing can replace the human touch. But remote communication, for work and family, was already a growing part of society, especially with younger people, before the virus made that growth exponential. For older people, those who Read more

  • Day 20

    Day 20 – Total confirmed cases in US: 278,458 It seems like a dream already: crowds of people barbequing at Orchard Beach or tossing Frisbees in Sheep’s Meadow. I miss the background rumble of human voices, gruff and sweet. I miss watching young people pushing the limits of their bodies with all the energy peculiar Read more

  • Day 19

    Day 19 – Total confirmed cases in US: 245,601 “We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.” Albert Einstein The reckoning is here. Dylan’s hard rain is pelting the fuck out of us. What we could have done to stop it doesn’t matter now. It will again at some Read more