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This article is reposted from the 'Digital Letters" email series for subscribers of The Shiftless Wanderer blog, by Dr. Robin Barre. Hello friends, It’s time for a (slightly delayed) digital note. As usual, feel free to make a tea, settle in and meander with me for the next few moments. It’s not often I get writer’s block. As a writer, you’d think I’d always have a fresh stack of ideas. But I guess that’s why it’s called writer’s block. Because even as writers, we’re not immu

In 2020, the world shut down. COVID was terrifying in its capacity to take so many people from wellness to death in the worst ways I could imagine. Suffocation was always my worst nightmare and here was a new virus that led people anywhere from ‘mild sore throat and a cough’ to ventilators with uncertain next steps. Some people lost everything as businesses closed and shipping channels got clogged up. People stayed home and as safe as they could make themselves. As a healt