{"id":2418,"date":"2020-05-26T11:18:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T18:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=2418"},"modified":"2020-05-26T13:53:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T20:53:48","slug":"covid19-notes-2-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=2418","title":{"rendered":"COVID19 NOTES 2, PLUS"},"content":{"rendered":"

AVOIDING THE VIRAL CONTAGION LIFESTYLE NOTES:<\/strong>\u00a0 We of the poetry group met\u00a0 monthly to have fun with\u00a0 favorite poems.\u00a0 My choices always seemed to be better with a change or two.\u00a0 For instance, Emily Dickinson’s poem “To Make a Prairie”<\/strong> reads more like a description of a bee frolicking in a clover-covered front yard with a wild rose bush and an Adirondack chair..\u00a0 Good grief! No field or big sky or meadowlark in sight.\u00a0 What is a child of North Dakota to do?\u00a0 So I changed Emily Dickinson’s poem, though the scan is a tad off.\u00a0 Maybe to subvert this contrariness, fearless leader Gary, asked us to ready a poem of our own, a limerick of 8 lines with 4 rhyming couplets, for the next time our group of 12 can meet and shout through masks from a proper social distance.\u00a0 Here is my most appropriate, best and only effort so far:<\/p>\n

MAY 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

I used to go to\u00a0Maine in May,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0In time for the parade on Memorial Day.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0I\u2019d open the bookstore for those who read\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0And love the arguments wherever they lead.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now I\u2019m a Seattle-r trying to fit\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0With less-foamy lattes and the wit, I admit,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Of Charlie\u2019s gull-sqwacks and dog clipper cuts\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0And with masks and Pier walks.\u00a0 No COVID, not\u00a0 nuts.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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So in the spirit of a Seattler-newbie during COVID, agreeing to anything to be outdoors, I am, with Charlie’s enthusiastic! efforts, using pier time to become aware of the local celebrities docked nearby.\u00a0 Appreciating them is for another day.\u00a0 So can you find the TV star in the pictures?\u00a0 No fair if you watch “Deadliest Catch.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Note the Northwestern, not my unfortunate COVIDian haircut.<\/p><\/div>\n

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See the distant Pinnacle. See me getting away from Charlie. Splash.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Albert, the junker, or happy-colored ketch? I’m masked, not napping.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Pinnacle is handsomest, the sailboat most user friendly, and Albert the most promising do-over.\u00a0 I especially like the tree, rooted in the residue of it’s past promise.\u00a0 But the Northwestern is the star, according to Charlie, who occasionally watches it on “Deadliest Catch”<\/strong> and who likens it to George Clooney (!) for its endurance of 16 years a a star.\u00a0 Maybe because the boat has aged well, too, but I doubt it.\u00a0 Me?\u00a0 The boat’s okay, but\u00a0 I’m just happy on the pier.\u00a0 That measured response should be good for another trip.\u00a0 Meanwhile, my stars are down low.\u00a0 You be you: gulls and ducklings and lapping, sparkly water.<\/p>\n

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READ ING WITH A MASK: I’m currently reading Sara Paretsky’s latest mystery, Shell Game.<\/strong>\u00a0 As usual, V.I. Warshawski is keeping Chicago’s powers-that-be, including politicians, on their toes, which is very satisfying these COVID and Trumpian days.\u00a0 And adding to Ian Urbina’s The Outlaw Ocean<\/strong>, my intermittently read book that has, for Charlie, big boats doing dangerous things, my latest “in-between” book is Hope Jahren’s new book, The Story of More<\/strong>, which, even though it is about climate change and therefore COVID-pertinent, is engaging.\u00a0 After reading her memoir, Lab Girl<\/strong>, which I loved, I am going to anticipate with pleasure anything Hope Jahren writes.\u00a0 If you are a newbie, you might enjoy her recent NYT op-ed essay<\/strong> which is every person’s primer on a virus<\/a>.\u00a0 This makes mE think a list of favorite memoirs could be fun.<\/p>\n

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Friend Susan brought me some fresh cherries which I love, but thought early for homegrown produce.\u00a0 She apologized and said these were from California, which she hoped was okay until Washington cherries — which are, of course, very special — were ready.\u00a0 This could so have been Scott reacting with a sniff to a gift of early, bigger blueberries by noting they were”high bush berries. from New Jersey.”\u00a0 I miss Scott and Bobby, even without Virginia tomatoes and\u00a0 Memorial Day in Maine.<\/p>\n

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