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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
I like the word liminal. It's from the Latin word limen, threshold, and it means the ambiguous zone between two states of being. I like the way the word sounds, and I also find it describes situations I often find myself in. The beach is liminal, with tidepools that are sometimes wet, sometimes dry. Fog on the mountain is liminal. Airports are liminal. Some life phases are liminal. Adolescence is liminal. We are experiencing a liminal phase now, with the pandemic receding and our post-pandemic lives forming. Transitions are exciting for some people. I don't always enjoy being in a liminal place. Uncertainties unnerve me. But it's sure not boring.
July 19, 2021
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Let's talk about COVID-19 vaccination. Have you and/or others close to you been vaccinated -- or had difficulty getting vaccinated? If so, talk about that experience.
Everyone I know in the US has been fully vaccinated now. Praise God! It has been quite easy and available-- I think the government did a great job of this. I feel bad for friends in other countries who have struggled to get it and are still unvaccinated. A lot of people I know in Mexico are coming to the US to get the vaccine. Part of me is happy for them that they can do this, part of me is mad at the Mexican government for not providing for its people. Also, why should US taxpayers pay for the Mexican citizens to get the vaccine because the Mexican government didn't get its act together??? I really hate the Mexican president with a passion. He is such a total idiot. I am also a Mexican citizen so I can say this and I have a stake in what happens down there. I really hope he loses some power in the upcoming election because it is scary what is happening in Mexico and I am afraid that the country will continue to go down the tubes with this crazy maniac in power
June 5, 2021