Capturing the roller coaster

Day inspires me with her art and the many ways she makes the best of bad situations.

So there she is in Northern Virginia, setting up online learning for her high school teachers, being a mom and a wife, and making a colorful book documenting the days of lockdown.  As she wrote in her text along with these pictures: "Twenty days of Corona lockdown journaling.  Trying to capture the roller coaster."

And yet, none of us is blasé about the pandemic.  We feel a stab of agony just thinking that one of us could suffer or die from this virus.  We know that we're never going to return to being just the way we were before.  Things will change.  We'll always live with a new vulnerability, as we did after 9/11.

But we're doing what we do--writing, painting, making art, making music, cooking, gardening--as our creative responses to all that we can't change.