Poem: Covid Comfort

Yearning for Something Yet Unknown: A Stream of Unconscious Longing

I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it.Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights The peepers are singing in the cool Spring air. Night has fallen like an old …

Unmotivated: Finding Peace During the Longest Month

I can but I won’t.Unknown My yoga teacher reminded me today that we are now in the 6th week of quarantine. It feels like the 100th week - especially when it's been raining for the past 4 days. One day begins to bleed into the next and I mark off the days on a calendar …

Things I Will Miss Post-Pandemic

Gratitude is not some foo-foo practice. It has practical application and can instantly make things just a little bit better. When I was in the murkiness of my chronic illness, I began giving thanks for the few hours I did manage to sleep each night, rather than all those I spent awake.Polly Campbell It should …

Jotting Down History: Why Journaling Is More Important Than Ever

(Diaries are) better than novels, more accurate than histories, and even at times more dramatic than plays.”Arthur Ponsonby, as quoted in Thomas Mallon’s “A Book of One’s Own” I received my first journal when I was in 4th grade and I have kept one every year since then.  I’m an on again/off again diarist – …