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- An autumn of zooms: the pandemic continues
- Michael Moore & Jeff Gibbs: Planet of the Humans
- Heather Cox Richardson: How the South Won the Civil War; Joanne Friedman: Field of Blood
- A couple of rough weeks
- My & US education; a new song by Izzy (“falling through the clouds”); online treats: Jonas Kaufmann in concert, and Hannah Gadsby as immensely cheering
- An unhappy 4th: Amid inertia in a calamity we each carry on, my on-line talk & A French Village (3 & 4)
- The Ides of June
- I wear my mask with a headscarf & am part of the seemingly sane in zooms seeking an illusive safety
- Accustoming ourselves: chez nous, a new old song by Izzy, remembering our dog, Llyr
- Life for those “sheltering in place:” would it were quiet monotony
- Fraught times
- COVID19 — and class, race, gender, age, ethnicity — Corona Crimes
- Three links: thoughtful advice on time; Journey’s “Lights;” the aging actor & his cat
- A dire situation seems gradually unfolding before us ….
- Pandemic
- They are not long, the days of wine and roses — first daffodils to The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Modes of social life: real life bewilderment, a hard take in Bong Jong-ho’s The Parasite
- A life of following dreams, some cheering, & partly broken-hearted
- Let this be a reminder
- The Folger Library closes, just for a while ….
- Izzy’s latest song: “Out here on my own” from Fame — our three Christmas events, Come from Away & Little Women
- In the bleak mid-winter: I go to the city council once again; Shaffer’s Amadeus at the Folger; Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir
- The 7th year begins: getting through
- Another two weeks have slipped quietly by
- My lovely week in New York City
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