I am well. My cat (Kittiboon) kept me sane through the long Stay at home times. He developed epilepsy but we are learning to deal with it. I am teaching from home by Zoom, through fall quarter, and we expect to be teaching hybrid in-person one day, by Zoom one day in winter. Getting eye fatigue from so much screen time though.
I have a vegetable garden (year 4 of learning how) and a crazy number of different heirloom tomato varieties this year (almost all still green now, except for some indigo ones), so that has been fun and one of my neighbors at the fourplex is also very into it so I have company in the garden. And now that the vaccine has been widely available here for a few months I have been able to do a few things in person with friends - playing "Wingspan" board game, sharing a meal, even a couple of concerts. Do you remember Cris Williamson, early "Women's music" (The Changer and the Changed)? I listened to that over and over about 40 years ago! She had a small concert in Seattle last. night, I went with friends and it was wonderful!
Do I remember Chris Williamson, The Changer and the Changed? Yes, I do. Absotutely! Those were the days in the late 1980s when I listened to a radio show called Women's Music every Monday night. :) It was so great! I still have tapes of the show. (But I'd be hard-pressed to find a tape recorder to listen to them.) It must have been a blast to go to one of her concerts.
I am glad you could continue teaching during the pandemic, even if only on Zoom. I kind of did the same: we've been teaching a lot of writing classes on Zoom, especially during last winter. Now we are going back to live teaching, with some people still on Zoom.
During the hardest weeks of the lockdown, me and gf moved to one apartment and kept each other company. It was okay. We've been taking LOADS of walks. I pretty much stopped usinmg public transport in Berlin, but joined NextBike, a bike-sharing service. I am biking now everywhere. :)
It was a very fun concert, though small, I get the feeling she was in town and decided to do it on the spot. But very moving to hear one of those old songs, and also her new songs, and she had some friends on stage and they were joking and it was very warm, like "how good to see live people again!"
Hi again Vaysh! I turned in my remix fic and just heard from an old friend that her step-daughter just finished making a short documentary about a Womyn's land community in rural Alabama, still going. I thought you might be interested! Here is a link about it:https://www.docnyc.net/film/shorts-she-stories-2/ Here is the webpage of the Womyn's land, see if the graphic doesn't take you back to the 80's: https://alapine.org
I am well. My cat (Kittiboon) kept me sane through the long Stay at home times. He developed epilepsy but we are learning to deal with it. I am teaching from home by Zoom, through fall quarter, and we expect to be teaching hybrid in-person one day, by Zoom one day in winter. Getting eye fatigue from so much screen time though.
I have a vegetable garden (year 4 of learning how) and a crazy number of different heirloom tomato varieties this year (almost all still green now, except for some indigo ones), so that has been fun and one of my neighbors at the fourplex is also very into it so I have company in the garden. And now that the vaccine has been widely available here for a few months I have been able to do a few things in person with friends - playing "Wingspan" board game, sharing a meal, even a couple of concerts. Do you remember Cris Williamson, early "Women's music" (The Changer and the Changed)? I listened to that over and over about 40 years ago! She had a small concert in Seattle last. night, I went with friends and it was wonderful!
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I am glad you could continue teaching during the pandemic, even if only on Zoom. I kind of did the same: we've been teaching a lot of writing classes on Zoom, especially during last winter. Now we are going back to live teaching, with some people still on Zoom.
During the hardest weeks of the lockdown, me and gf moved to one apartment and kept each other company. It was okay. We've been taking LOADS of walks. I pretty much stopped usinmg public transport in Berlin, but joined NextBike, a bike-sharing service. I am biking now everywhere. :)
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It was a very fun concert, though small, I get the feeling she was in town and decided to do it on the spot. But very moving to hear one of those old songs, and also her new songs, and she had some friends on stage and they were joking and it was very warm, like "how good to see live people again!"
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