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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
This image, drawn by a four-year-old, says it all."I am angry!" next to a scowling face with gritted teeth. I don't know whether she drew it because she was feeling angry, or if she was just practicing drawing faces because they're learning about feelings at school. So I ask her how she's feeling. She tells me. It's elaborate, rambling, complex, and funny. She's honest, unselfconscious in a way that adults never are. She speaks in clauses and interrupts herself. She is love and joy and all good things distilled, sitting in the patch of sun on the scuffed living room floor of the new, smaller house we just moved into. She is surrounded by cardboard boxes and the dust of the house's previous occupants (why wouldn't you clean a house before you sold it to another family during a pandemic?! "I am angry!"). She is learning about feelings. She is teaching me.
March 10, 2021
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What was the biggest news story this past week -- either in your community, nationally, or globally?
This question almost feels like a joke because I think the answer is pretty obvious, with the biggest news story this week being the breach of the capital. As more details emerge like the claims of Congresspeople giving reconnaissance tours of the Capitol, plans to assassinate officials like the vice president, and evidence pointing towards riot being intentionally planned instead of just spur of the moment really are shocking and I can't believe it. It's been interesting to see the right-wing media's response to the event, because I really believe they were just as much a contributor to this riot is everyone else like the president and other politicians who were accused of inciting the violence. The day after the riot I I watched Fox news with my grandmother and they immediately started doing damage control, separating those who write it and broke into the capital from other Trump supporters. However, what didn't sit right with me as how they kept bringing up that the riot "wasn't as bad" as the nighttime riots that occurred in the summer during the black lives matter protests, which seems ridiculous to me. It's like the whole "but her emails" argument all over again but this time with something more important going on.
January 17, 2021