Covid - A year of Isolation!  A year of our Discontent!  A year of Danger & Unrest!

Unfathomable how a pandemic changes the world and the individual, daily experience.  One day, teaching on campus and moving about freely- by day's end, in the apartment and frightened and worried for yourself, and your loved ones. Fearful of a virus - for your family and then the world encrouches on you in a way that was sci-fi and now is reality.

Pandemic - virus - contageon - how scary is the verbiage and the new reality and uncertainty - is mind-boggling.  Beyond that - though - is the daily grind and worry.  The worry and fear wears you out and is exhausting. The worry and fear is about as critical to people as the actual virus.

What to do! What can one do!?  How do you continue to teach or read, when your attention is so so distractable and your energy level so low? Some people readily say that they are 'depressed', which is a valid certainty..to say that. Others fight that designation of depression and hope and think that sinking feeling will pass & it is, afterall, only feeling 'blue'.