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5. Grateful to be in a region with leadership that is taking this really seriously and in a community that by and large seems to understand that physical distancing and staying home is how we take care of each other. 🌎 Someone please put the president and all of those spring breakers who thought a week of binge drinking and sunburn was literally the most important thing on a cruise ship together and send them off to search for the flat edge. (All beverages out of wine glasses for the foreseeable future.)

4. Grateful for time. Time playing cards with my parents, discussing rearranging furniture, discussing the sweet potato my dad and I are growing on the counter (pictured here), chatting about stuff and also about nothing. I’m always simultaneously rushing and exhausted, and home quarantine is... a lot slower. It’s definitely provided opportunities to think about patterns and stress responses and it’s not always pretty and nor does it feel good, but. Sometimes we really need time. To soften, to slow and feel, pause and reflect. 🌱

3 days in and this is already feeling a bit tedious, but: 3. Grateful for more snuggle time with this knucklehead, whom I miss terribly when I travel. She is leaning into sheltering in place like a goddamn champ (pictured here simultaneously awake and asleep, a skill of hers that never fails to amuse.)

Silver linings 2. Thinking about fear and bodies and contagion after a late night run for Tylenol before the “shelter in place” lockdown quarantine went into effect last night at midnight. It’s putting it lightly to say that I thought this month would look very different, but things change quickly, and I am very grateful to be with family and able to make last minute store runs so that my parents can stay safely at home. 🚣🏻‍♀️

Silver linings 1. I’m grateful to experience the glorious California spring, especially after missing it so for many years.

My future research trips are biting the dust one by one. Maybe I should just live here now...

Felt like a love song

A sweet respite from apocalypse