Daily Connector | New Normal | Dan Halterman
A favorite from my list of quotes is Wordsworth’s “Tell me, what has become clear to you since we last met?” It seems so perfectly invitational and is still classy after 200 years of war, famine, disease, manipulation – the normal state of humanity. A news article from a month…
Daily Connector | Why Are You Sad, O My Soul? | Jim Leonard
Near the end of March, there was a stretch of several days when I was feeling pretty blue, and I was acting that way. Although I do get blue now and then, it was unusual for me to stay in a funk for several days. “Why are downcast, O my…
Daily Connector | Silent screaming into the void | Jeff Lookabaugh
In these latter-day, Degenerate times, Cherry-blossoms everywhere! -Kobayashi Issa In early January, I lost my voice. At first I thought it would be temporary; I’d go through a few days of forced silence and then back to normal. A month in it was worse, not better, and then it disappeared…
Daily Connector | Oopsies! | David Emch
When I signed up to write for the Connector I was still in the honeymoon phase of this whole mess. I was working full-time, doing continuing education (and taking notes), facetiming friends, cleaning my house, and in general feeling like I was going to come through this thing well-rested and…