The Q? Quarantine!
This is the beginning of a blog, but not the beginning of THIS. What is happening to us. And I keep trying to write back to the beginning, but maybe I can't. I have to just start. Because we are living history. Right now. This hasn't happened in my lifetime, nor in my parents. You have to go back 100 years to find something that compares. Three and a half weeks ago was Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. I gave up sodas. And I decided to try to journal every day, as my Lenten practice. My first entries are full of thinking about writing, trying to build a habit, things to remember to do the next day. The world was already facing this pandemic - and it wasn't even making it into my journal. Three weeks ago today Matthew (my son) came down from Fayetteville for early voting in the presidential primary. I was watching CNN every night, and realizing that my favorite candidates were losing ground. I was thinking about delegate counts and who would be the Democratic nomin