But the choice between staying home indefinitely and returning to business as usual now is a false one. Risk is not binary. And an all-or-nothing approach to disease prevention can have unintended consequences. Ask me sometime about how to be 100% safe while riding a motorcycle. Quarantine Fatigue Is Real. Shaming People Won’t Help. –… Continue reading How can we all get along when we can’t agree on staying at home or not?
Tag: Courage
I guess I’ve gone all in on this correspondence thing
William Golding’s vision was clouded
But that night the boys made a grave error. They fell asleep. A few hours later they awoke to water crashing down over their heads. It was dark. They hoisted the sail, which the wind promptly tore to shreds. Next to break was the rudder. Keep reading. It’s worth it. The real Lord of the… Continue reading William Golding’s vision was clouded
Saturday morning cartoons viewing
I gotta soak up moments like this one.
You don’t need a weather man or an epidemiologist
Word of the day: prognostication
Not the journey I want
Road trip’s off. I kept hoping there’d still be a way to help my friend move from out by the Pacific over to near Lake Michigan, but I just can’t risk planes, buses, and motels with these tricky, uninsured lungs.
Current status
I really picked the wrong four years of my life to finally pay attention to politics.
Is today still September 12?
As we go through an indeterminate period of time separated from the normal rhythm of our lives, Americans are going to be forced to consider what’s most important to them. The answer, so far, appears to be family, community, and a sense of decency—whether it’s in the heroism of health-care workers or in the video… Continue reading Is today still September 12?
Not everyone’s ready for it just yet, I know, but maybe if I’m gentle and drop just tiny, attentive bits for now, we can find space, little pockets of time and effort, slow breaths held just long enough, to allow room near to us for some optimism.