Imagine how you have felt these past few weeks. Or maybe you are reading this post-tense, in the shadows of a virus that ravished the earth. Life was shut down as we know it. Our resistence to fight a battle bigger than ourselves left us helpless, vulnerable, and feeling out of control. Now imagine, children who […]
Mouths don’t say it. Media dances around it. Minds tend to dwell on it. But nobody is murmering it. “Has God left us?” Is this epidemic that’s paralizing the world, a plague from God, announcing to the world, “He stopped loving us”. Or maybe, “He just doesn’t like us?” “He has moved away. He has found […]
I ask my dark-haired, Latin husband, as he stirs scrambled eggs for three of our adopted daughters, “Do you know what ‘Corona’ means?” “Crown”, he answers without stopping a second. “Are you sure? How do you know?” My skepticism rises. “The word is Spanish.” I stop, freeze in the kitchen, convinced my Spanish-speaking husband knew what […]
Washington State’s Governor announced an extended quarantine, until May 4th. But even then, it sounds like quarantine may extend past that date. Boeing just shut down “until further notice” and there are rumors of everything stopping until July. I drive by Providence Medical Center in Everett. The place of the first known case of Coronavirus in America. […]
I was born at the hospital where the first case of Coronavirus was diagnosed in the U.S.A I delivered my son and daughter there decades ago. My parents still live six houses away. I was both raised and owned a house, for a collective thirty plus years, steps away from that Providence Hospital. Today, I wanted […]
My blood is boiling. I try to breathe deep, see clearly, slow my heart rhythm in order to evaluate this situation fully. Growing up in a home where there was literal singing, almost always, talk of joy and goodness, patience and saint-like acceptance of others… My initial thoughts are to tame this perpetual anger inside me. […]