A Virtual Call to My Deceased Uncle
I spoke with my deceased uncle today. Let me tell you how that came to be. It’s been more than a month since California Gov. Gavin Newsom asked Californians to stay home to prevent the spread of the deadly Covid-19 virus. The situation is vividly depicted in Kitty O'Meara ’s poem, And The People Stayed Home … “and read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still … Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. Some met their shadows. And the people began to think differently.” In a New York Times op-ed, Taylor Lorenz advises us to Stop Trying to Be Productive. She writes that t he internet wants you to believe you aren’t doing enough with all that “extra time” you have now. But staying inside and attending to basic needs is plenty. I don’t like being told what to do. It’s my time, and I am going to spend it my way. This is because my sense of obligation to obey others who gi...