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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
I got this plant (his name is Arnold) last year. I repotted him in the beginning of the summer, but it's time for him to be repotted again now, because he's had some babies and they've gotten big. Taking care of my plants has been really calming throughout all of this. Watering them has become a ritual and now that I've been home almost constantly, I can see how big they've all gotten. Repotting them before the fall and winter will give them more room to spread their roots and then grow next year. Even if I'm not able to take care of myself as well as I should be (hence why I put up a printout of a CBT triangle my therapist gave me years ago), I can still take care of them. (The diplodocus' name is Kenny, a camper gave him to me almost 5 years ago. He loves the plants too).
March 9, 2021
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What was the biggest news issue this past week -- either in your community, nationally, or globally? Talk about it and why it’s a big deal.
This past week I was working and covering Africa, so the main news issues were the volcano eruption in DRC and the coup in Mali. Both very big events, but I was amazed to realize how little people here were focused on them. With my job it is interesting how I am immersed in a world so far away just through my computer-- while all around me in my physical environment is a different story. Very strange to be focused on something so far away all week and then today, when I'm finally done with work I come back to my immediate surroundings in NYC where everything is different and people have been following other news and other stories.
May 30, 2021