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After Covid-19 - Unfolding

June 23, 2021 Marlena Maduro Baraf

I’ve moved to the patio with my laptop hoping I can put together good words for you. A mosquito buzzing near me hasn’t bitten me yet.

I could tell you about a recent MRI experience, because a complicating event offers riches. I am starved for detail,

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In Corona Diary Tags Covidaftermath, A year without strangers, MRIs, post-vaccination, Harper'sMagazine, ElisaGabbert
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Corona Diary: Where do we go from here?

February 21, 2021 Marlena Maduro Baraf
Photo by Ben Neale

Photo by Ben Neale

]I’m beginning to feel that we’re half past something, feeling bursts of hope a full year after the Covid19 pandemic began in the US that hit us so terribly in New York. I am also worrying that some of the interiority that we’ve gained may be lost as we begin to quicken our steps in anticipation of living as we used to.

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In Corona Diary, Diversity, Families Tags Covidaftermath, soy/somos, Hispanics Latinos Latinx, family
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Corona Diary #8 - Afterlife

June 3, 2020 Marlena Maduro Baraf
Rhododendron snowball flowers

Rhododendron snowball flowers

Where are the hands, secret smiles or looks, or smells, or sudden changes in the weather lighting a face, or a fantastic sneeze? I am grateful for Zoom and other smart devices that are helping us stay connected, but the experience is flat, for the most part. My friend Lynn says we are living in a kind of void.

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In Corona Diary Tags Timeoutofjoint, covid19, Blacklivesmatter, Kneeling, Covidaftermath, Juliaalvarez, JaquiraDiaz, Afterlife
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