Do you wonder how every day is so predictable and similar, while outside it’s impossible to tell what happens in the next hour?
Fashion and surveillance
Masks will usher in new fashion trends and new forms of surveillance. Featuring a quick drawing by my daughter.
Getting better at typing ‘Thank you’
Thank you all for the love you sent, and for being my connection to the world!
Solaria, extreme social distancing
Today I’m recommending two books by Isaac Asimov, where he introduces a society that practices extreme social distancing.
A world upended and the freedom organ
I believe many of us have this ‘freedom organ’, which causes us to respond emotionally when we lose some or all of our freedom, even if we don’t physically feel the loss.
How is the squirrel?*
Even the squirrels are not the same anymore.
Shut up, I can’t home-office!
Trying to hang on to the good stuff.
Passengers
A shout out to the people who still run our world and keep us alive.
Loneliness is a killer
In my very limited volunteering experience, the best message a support group can send is “You’re not alone”. If the group manages get that feeling across, it will have achieved most of its goal. Everything else is the cherry on top. Being left alone in facing adversity is the worst.
The Quarantine Diaries 