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Quarantine Diary #664 Whine, whine, whine.
January 7, 2022
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1/7/2021

Lincoln gave a speech in January of 1838 to Americans alarmed by mob actions.

Quarantine Diary #662 Janus month.
January 5, 2022
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1/5/2022

I can still hear my mom saying, “I don’t know whether I’m coming or going today.” I thought of this, one of her favorite sayings, when I wrote this letter to the Third Graders yesterday.

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Dear Kids!

I hope you had a fine winter holiday. Now it is January 2022. Do you know where the word January comes from?

Quarantine Diary #661 Mistakes
January 4, 2022
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This is a lemming. Make mistakes this year, but don’t make the lemming mistake.

1/4/2022

This morning, while looking in our under-the-fridge freezer for soup for supper (neither of us want to cook today), we discovered a towel-wrapped lettuce. What can I say? It’s a whole new mistake to make that we have never made before.

Quarantine Diary #657 What we’re up against
December 30, 2021
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12/30/2021

I know a fair amount about the planet-killing toxicity of western culture’s “fast fashion” so I was impressed by what I read this morning in “The Day the World Stops Shopping.” (I wrote about this book yesterday in case you missed class. Hah.)

Quarantine Diary #655 & #656
December 29, 2021
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12/28/2021 - Written yesterday:

Quarantine Diary #654 - Frontline Holiday
December 27, 2021
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12/27/2021

So that might have been the quietest Christmas of my life. How about you?

A tweet from this morning: “Are you suddenly knowing people who HAVE Covid?”

Quarantine Diary #651 Just about Christmas
December 24, 2021
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12/24/2021

Quarantine Diary #650
December 23, 2021
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12/23/2021

This photo is by my friend Jennifer Beiriger. (I don’t think Jennifer knows this but I can’t spell her name. My brain will not learn and keep the correct spelling of Beiriger so I have it on a post-it note next to my desk. It’s been there a couple years.)

Ebbing late afternoon light can break your heart.

Quarantine Diary #649
December 22, 2021
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12/22/2021

Omicron: On Twitter today an ICU nurse describes how exhausted care providers are. It’s hard to watch; she is very tired and very clear and she is not playing for pity.  Click here to watch 

Quarantine Diary # 648
December 21, 2021
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Happy Solstice Quotes!

"This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year's threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath." Margaret Atwood.