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A holiday celebrating the truth that we are all in it together, that we all breathe the same air.
She would be at home on July 4, 2020 Interdependence Day, celebrating her connection to the whole world, hoping to one day be part of it, a different kind of freedom.
2π 4π
The delusional gesture of separating the hands, bringing them together again, manipulating yarn, which Donald Trump continually plays while speaking. A game beloved of little girls everywhere.
Debating Biden, Trump revealed his inner life by continually playing cat's cradle.
2π 1π
Something which spreads at unprecedented speed.
The swift lockdown of the planet was coronaviral.
2π 2π
A thick-skinned survivor who, having seen it all, feels immune.
He had been a war orphan, a soldier, a refugee, a patient given no chance of survival, a coronawalrus without fear, volunteering to help others.
8π 1π
Remaining a child, year after year, all the way through one's theoretical adulthood.
"Yay, it's my birthday! Twelve again!!!"
Something which is in front of us, yet cannot or will not be seen.
The visual equivalent of 'falling on deaf ears'.
Inside the White House, the numbers kept falling on blind eyes, unable to see that infection rates were exploding, that their candidate was massively behind in the polls, that across the country, people were on the march and would not back down.
In a Hypocractic form of government, the inalienable right to say one thing and do another, as exemplified by Senator Lindsey Graham.
'"Use my words against me" doesn't mean "hold me accountable"', said Graham. "As a Republican, I am exercising my Hypocratic Right to say and do anything I want to."