A quick note on time again, before diving in. It’s been a month now. I don’t even need to finish that sentence because you all know what I’m talking about. A month isn’t that long in the grand scheme of things, and under normal circumstances they simply fly by. But what a month. The biggest …
Shut In: Lessons in Pespective and Empathy During Covid-19 Read More »
It’s been nearly four weeks since the start of our work-from-home routine and me writing writing these posts on the coronavirus, so today I want to try something a little bit different and switch things up with my style. Instead of writing another free-form essay type of article, I am going to give you some …
It’s hard to describe how profound things are changing. I think we are all aware that this is a very serious crisis, and that this virus is affecting us in ways that we have never experienced before. But it’s difficult, perhaps impossible, to foresee how these radical shifts to our lifestyles and livelihoods will continue …
On Never Going Back: The Tragedy and Hope of Change During Covid-19 Read More »
(Photo by Chloe @https://www.instagram.com/chloer._/) I’ve been thinking a lot lately about space. Space as in the universe above us, but also the physical space that we occupy; the geography, both personal and impersonal, that delimits our daily lives and defines ourselves and our imaginations. The former is endless, completely open–the exact opposite of my own …
Space To Ourselves: Spatial Empathy During Covid-19 Read More »
Something that really fascinated me early on in this crisis was the sort of paradox of being together in our aloneness. At the same time that we’re spending so much of our time sequestered–alone in our homes and in our heads–almost everyone is dealing with similar issues and similar issues of loneliness and cabin fever. …
(Photo courtesy of Chloe @https://www.instagram.com/chloer._/) This week I’ve been thinking a lot about happiness (minus a slight emotional digression yesterday): what it means to be happy during this period of hardship and isolation during the covid-19 pandemic, how we can begin to redefine and reconstruct what it means in our own lives. There have been …
Happiness Part 3: Towards Imagining an Afterwards and Rebuilding Ourselves Read More »
My commuter pass expired today. It’s one of those small details of daily life whose absence, and the reminder of whose absence, carries such gravity these days. I was out running errands and shopping for groceries when I passed the train station near my house. I remembered that my commuter pass was about to expire, …
The Things We Carried: An Ode to Commuter Passes and the Little Details of Life Read More »
Yesterday’s post was the start of a series I wanted to write about finding happiness during these tough times. Not because we need to feel happy necessarily, but if we want to, I think this situation poses unique and interesting questions about what truly makes us happy and how to actively create it. I really …
Happiness Part 2: Modes of Escapism and Finding Presence Read More »
A lot of my recent posts have focused a lot on loneliness, isolation. and sadness. Partly this is because I think that, while diseases in general have isolating effects (both physical, societal, and mental) the current Covid-19 pandemic poses really interesting questions about loneliness since so many people in so many countries around the world …
Happiness Part 1: Emotional Honesty and Toxic Positivity Read More »
It’s Friday, and I am heading into another weekend. Except that it doesn’t really feel like it. There’s no looking forward to spending time with friends or going out, and even walking around town isn’t what it used to be; there aren’t as many shops and cafes open and wearing a mask is honestly constricting …
Ways of Thinking in Self-Quarantine: Imagination and Divergence Read More »
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