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jodi hays's avatar

love reading your reflection. oh how different for me.

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Mary Addison Hackett's avatar

It’s a tough flashback personally- thanks for sharing. Similar experiences although radically different environment.

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Leatrice Linden's avatar

Deja vu all over again

Sharon thanks for sharing

I was a New York artist living in Miami

My days weren’t as bad because I had my studio and my garden and my husband and I are used to working home alone

A neighbor brought us masks and a hen house when another neighbor gave us 8 baby chicks. The big event of the day was watching the local Muscovy duck bring her ducklings to our fountain and teach them how to swim

The search for vaccine appointments ended when a friend got us a pair in Broward county and we drove 60 miles on Valentine’s Day That was the first day in almost a year that we’d been out of our house to do anything other than wait in line at Trader Joe’s

When a New York friend arrived and we sat masked in the garden six feet apart

I marveled that she got on a plane

The fear we lived with then is only now comparable to what we are now living thru Alas Deja vu all over again

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Sharon Butler's avatar

Thanks Jodi. It's like the parable of the blind men and an elephant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant

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