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It’s March 26, 2020. If I remember the past 24 hours correctly, today’s the first official day of mandatory “sheltering in place” here in Colorado Springs. They announced it yesterday, but I think the orders went into place last night. Or, maybe this morning. Either way, it’s been almost two weeks since schools closed, so […]

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Life is unrecognizable. Our kids are e-learning and we’re isolated but still go shopping for toilet paper because people who realized this epidemic panic (pandemic, anybody?) would be a thing early on decided toilet paper was the item to stock up on. There’s a lot more missing than just toilet paper, but toilet paper seems […]

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I stand, washing out an empty bottle of hot sauce to prepare it for recycling, and wonder how clean it actually needs to be. “How do they get the paper label off,” I think, and “whatever gets the label off will surely get the leftover hot sauce I’m scrubbing by hand,” but I don’t stop, […]

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There’s a photo floating around social media and in the news. It’s a “First Day of School” photo, but not like any I’ve shared. It’s not like the one I’ll likely share next week of my own kid heading back to school. This photo’s of a little girl sitting on the floor with a slice […]

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Now and again, each of us is a hero. It’s in small, in-the-moment acts, like paying for a person behind us in line. It’s in big more-planned things, like volunteering at places that break our hearts because it’s not fair that privilege and circumstance are the only things that stand between us being the volunteer […]

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There are places on earth and moments in time when you know you’re part of everything. You feel life as it is now, as it was, as it will always be. You’re connected to everything, and everyone. The good and the bad. You’re both small and vast, and think of everybody and see them being […]

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