Tag: social distancing
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I have a kind of alacrity in sinking
‘I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed.’ I have always loved that quote. There was a time when I was fond of saying it; I softened its blow by explaining that it was actually an example of clever Shakespearean sarcasm. Unfortunately, I was once challenged by a…
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The art of finding the mind’s construction in the face
During Covid, I found that I sometimes had the most interesting conversations when I didn’t mean to. Most people hear, but fewer listen unless you make eye contact with them; this was often difficult when I was standing in those little socially distanced footsteps painted on the floor of the grocery store checkout lines and…
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Scaffolds
It’s exciting to realize that, despite my age, there are so many things that I have not stopped to think about: the seemingly random encounters with anonymous people in the course of a visit to a store or waiting for a bus downtown; inconsequential interactions with strangers on a sidewalk waiting for the light to…
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Am I anybody’s keeper?
Is it possible to understand the world as if you were another person? Or, no matter the effort, would you still be imprisoned within yourself -feeling what you assume you would feel if you were in the same circumstance as her? That what you manage to sample of her condition is inevitably filtered through your…
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