For future folks who need to know what it was like in a pandemic: social media was not helpful. 

I've mostly stayed off it lately and went on for less than a minute today. It confirmed my hypothesis. 

Because I often am. 

Shakespeare really knew what he was talking about. 

And watch the birds and clouds cross the sky -

Swept away.

Which is it?

It might be because I was once an archaeologist. Or maybe, I became an archaeologist because I love cemeteries. 

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I wish it wasn't so and it is. I'm coming up on my second term of my MBA. Definitely a privilege. I get the privilege of doing the pre-requisites too. 

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Not bad. Just different. 

When you're going through anything...

Staying on the surface means you don't get dunked. Being nimble when the waves come means you rise above. 

I am trying very hard to listen to my discomfort and the messages it's sending me. 

Here's what I think I've learned so far. 

Here's a poem that's a metaphor. 

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Here's a summertime  poem that I wrote in the same format as the poem "In Just" by E. E. Cummings about spring. You can read it here from the Poetry Foundation.  

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I think I mentioned that my husband and I cancelled our planned cruise to the Mediterranean due to a pandemic. As a consolation, we booked a shorter, closer, remoter vacation up north so I took a week off. from everything. Originally, I was going to keep posting my poems daily and then I felt a twinge of indignation and resentment. Resenting poetry? Me? Ok. It's been a tough year. So. I decided to take a week off from every expectation, including ones I put on myself, my poetry. Tomorrow, I'll be back at it and thank so much, if you're following along and wondering what happened. It was me. On a consolation vacation. 

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Am I talking to a wall? 

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Elevating luv_exposition on Instagram whose Juneteenth poem holds the same flavor of frustration those enslaved Texans must have felt hundreds of years ago. 

It takes effort to be informed. 

Another double for today. Thinking about statue removal and why it seems such a big deal to folks. Here's an article by Camille Squires if you want to know where it's happening. Here's an article by Anne C. Bailey if you want to know why it happened in 2018 (and it's happening again). Here's an article from Betty Lyons for why statues that commemorate people who have done atrocious actions against fellow humans should come down. 

Fuller and Harsch. I wish they were a fun crime solving duo. They aren't. I'm going to be tuning in and I'm grateful for those who made the time to call for justice. 

Just processing through poetry:

Let's do the work.

This is mostly a message to myself. 

Sometimes we do. Renew to rejoin.