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Isolating Together
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Maine Voices: By reopening to the public, Portland library
is returning to our mission
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Hannah Matthews
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2021-08-04
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Librarians
Public libraries
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
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pdf
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https://www.pressherald.com/2021/08/04/maine-voices-by-reopening-to-the-public-portland-library-is-returning-to-our-mission/
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A Portland Public Library staff member reflects on what it means to have patrons back in the building after a year of pandemic closure.
community
gratitude
service
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Fulfilling a lifetime dream in 1999, I moved to the Great Smoky Mountains of western North Carolina. I lived on the side of a mountain in the woods for seventeen years. It was one of the best experiences of my life. Living among nature, seeing red wolf, bobcat, coyote and fox in my yard was breathtaking. Hiking, taking flying lessons, exploring watercolors again was invigorating. Living in a small town where “everybody knows your name” fit me to a tee.
Just before I turned seventy, I knew it was time to move closer to family. My daughter was living in Maine so I sold my beloved mountain home and came here. It was a huge adjustment moving to a city, although I was fortunate to find a home surrounded by woods at its outskirts. There are deer, turkeys, coyotes, fox in my yard often. I am grateful.
I had just been in Maine a year when Covid-19 began. It has not been easy to meet people here, to find my group, although my years living solo in the mountains has been invaluable training for these isolating times. I miss my lifelong volunteer work and hope to find a place where I can volunteer. Fortunately, I have lots of interests and have family nearby.
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Smokies to Portland
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Susan A.
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2021
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Home
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Moving, Household
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Susan Anspacher
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change
gratitude
nature
solitude
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Isolating Together
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1/29/20
Sometimes I feel like I need to explain things to future generations, or more probably, future me, who’s looking back with the benefit of hindsight and wondering “why were/weren’t you freaking out about that at the time?” Or maybe just for my own historical perspective, remembering the details I’ve forgotten years down the road.
Right now, everyone’s talking about the Wuhan coronavirus. There’s your typical responses: ohmygosh we’re all going to die; wow, you stupid Americans, stop freaking out about something that’s barely touched your shores (thanks, Canada); and the more conservative category that I currently fall into, which is more concerned for the people in China who are at the epicenter of the outbreak, but not dumb enough to think that it couldn’t ever get here.
Eventually, we’re due for another pandemic like the 1918 flu. Just from a statistical perspective. Some Harvard epidemiologist is saying that this could well be even worse, but then lots of other people are saying it can be controlled. It’s easy to roll your eyes at people who are overreacting, but then if we end up losing this microbiological Russian roulette, we’ll be incredulous at the people who were underreacting. That’s one of my fears about history, I think. What if I’m wrong, and in the future, I think, “How could I not have seen what was going on?”
Probably I need to stop caring about that, though, and just take reasonable precautions while not putting all my energy into worrying. So, no hugging people who just came back from China, and remember that there are asymptomatic carriers as well, so drink my orange juice and no kissing strangers.
1/29/21- Quarantine Day 226
Well. It’s been a year since I opened a new Google doc and wrote about the Wuhan virus. I remember mostly doing it as a sort of absolution- I had the feeling that looking back, we were either going to feel silly for overreacting or foolish for underreacting, and that I needed to set the record straight on where I stood in advance. I couldn’t ever have predicted we’d be where we are a year later, however. That would have seemed apocalyptic.
It’s fascinating to read back through and see not only how quickly things changed, but they way in which they evolved. For example, I used to write the covid stats at the beginning of each entry. After we hit one million cases that seemed kind of pointless. And then there’s the simple fact that I labeled each post “Quarantine Day __.” A quarantine usually implies a shorter-term seclusion with an end date in sight. That word has probably changed meaning in the last year, since so many of us have used it to mean time spent generally avoiding others, not specifically time keeping ourselves in isolation while we wait to see if we’re positive. So after today, I think I’m going to drop the word and just label each entry with the day. This is just how daily life is, now, I’ve been at it too long for it to feel unusual.
I don’t want to even speculate on how much longer pandemic restrictions will last or when it will be that I start going out again. Who knows. Safe predictions to make: I will continue to read a lot of books. People will continue to feel superior to each other based on their political beliefs. It will snow. I will still have Lyme Disease. Mom and I will have a little garden. Josh and I will build things. God will be good.
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A Year Apart
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Hannah P.
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1/29/20 and 1/29/21
2021-01-29
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On January 29, 2020 I opened a new word doc and began writing. Two months later, in March, I began to self-isolate and to journal extensively about my experience. On January 29, 2021 I looked back at the first entry I'd written and marveled at how much things had changed. In this intervening year I've written 46,000 words, specifically chronicling life under COVID and the ensuing violence and political strife that tore through the nation.
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COVID-19 (Disease)
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Hannah G Peterson
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English
gratitude
historical perspective
isolation
self-reflection
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Isolating Together
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After three months of quarantine during which we’d only seen our closest neighborhood friends from a distance, we had them over for dinner in our backyard. It was a warm spring evening. Their kids (5, 10, 12) and our kids (10, 12) played cornhole while we cooked and brought food out to the porch. We shared stories about the things in each of our lives that had become familiar that were completely unfamiliar to us before quarantine. Masks. Zoom. Telemarketers seeming kind and human. Daily talk about sickness and death.
They’d biked over to our house so when dinner was over we all got on our bikes—all 9 of us—and biked through the dark and mostly empty streets of Deering Center to Evergreen cemetery. We rode right down the middle of the street, a critical mass, and when we reached Evergreen, we rode down to the ponds, got off our bikes, and in the long unmowed grass beside the ponds we watched hundreds of fireflies dance in the dark. It felt miraculous to see these little insects light themselves up. We all stood there in awe feeling grateful.
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Lewis R., of Deering Center, Portland, Maine
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June 19, 2020
2020-06-19
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Lewis Robinson
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English
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COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
gratitude
neighbors
personal reflection
social distancing
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Isolating Together
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All things considering, I've been very fortunate during this time. I'm developing an online business that supports artists who are also entrepreneurs. Curious to see how businesses evolve (or don't) in this new climate. I've also finished writing a book of short fiction and look forward to finding it a home in this strange world. Forgiveness and prosperity have been at the forefront of my mind. Every day I'm learning how to balance hope and grief.
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[All things considering...]
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Emily C., of Willard Beach, South Portland, Maine
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April 9, 2020
2020-04-09
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Emily Collins
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English
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COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
adaptation
gratitude
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Isolating Together
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Illustration
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You are Essential
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Jessica Esch, of Portland, Maine
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[April] 2020
2020-04
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One of many illustrations made by the artist, Jessica Esch, to encourage people to stay home, wear masks, and express gratitude and support.
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Shinebolt
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Gratitude in art
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
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gratitude
masks
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