Journaling in Historic Times
- Holly Leach
- Apr 20, 2020
- 1 min read
Now is the time to write down our observations, feelings, and musings about this extraordinary time. We are part of history!
Journal through It!
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Books: An Apology
Grandma Alice handed the brown paper back to me, heavy and creased with angular protrusions. I uncurled the fiddle-head top and peered inside. Huzzah! (I said stuff like that. I was a weird kid.) An assembly of harlequin romance paperbacks, greasy at their corners from repeated reads, crouched inside. Grandma Alice always brought the good stuff. A pubescent 12-year old, I thrilled at the prospect of getting lost in those books for days. Yes, the thing that sparked my love of learning and my interest in the intricacies of language began with soft-core porn...supplied by my grandma.
I came to love the written word because it gave me the ability to live the lives of other people.…
Here's a musing from Friday.
A Covid Reflection
(<-Here's a pic of Fung as a pup. She's now almost 11 years old!)
I was walking Fung in the yard a few evenings ago, thinking about how surreal the world is right now...
Things seemed so strange and otherworldly every time I went outside, like the breeze and light and taste of the air. Exotic, but still resonant, the way a memory is triggered by a smell.
Then it hit me.
If you are a fellow teacher or one of my students, you may know what my work day was like in the Before Times. I bet many working people had similar hours.
Mondays through Fridays I set off to work…
Here's my journal from yesterday. I keep reading and hearing about all these people who are using their quarantine time productively. One co-worker was amazed at her own productivity prowess. She said, "My house has never been cleaner!" during one of our Zoom meetings. Maybe it's just me, but this situation, where I feel a little untethered, with no particular purpose or goal, has drawn me into a sort of lethargic funk. I do the work for my job, but at home? Nawp. I still have a pile of Before-Times laundry sitting on the top of my dryer. Dishes get washed when I need them for a particular thing, usually to go under a cheese-tomato-lettuce wrap when I run our of…