Megan J. Smith
Connection destroyed at the expense of productivity, culture at the expense of assimilation.
Today I Will Eat Ashes
Tag: isolation
Reflections on Sukkot During the Coronavirus
Rishe Groner
So. I don’t know about you, but I never thought we’d be here. Saying goodbye to Sukkot, the grand festival of rejoicing, the time when we celebrate harvest, honor abundance, and pray for the rains to come. And yet, we are. still. in. this. mess. Last week, I walked the eerily empty streets of Jerusalem.… Read more »
Countering Isolation with Poetry
Elana Rebitzer
Poets use language as a means of connection and coping that makes the listener, in turn, feel just a little bit less alone.
Mourning During a Period of Self-Isolation
Rachel Fadem
My online college class was interrupted with three missed calls from my father, two from my mother, and a supplemental set of urgent texts. I knew without calling back that my grandmother had passed.