“Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next … We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcsses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it.”
—Arundhati Roy
I can’t imagine being a nurse right now.
I get totally claustrophobic wearing a mask. Can barely do it.
Man, those medical and other essential workers = Going WAAAAAY above and beyond the call of duty. Bless them (and forgive their friggin student loans already – in FULL)!
This just in: There’s a reason for the smell of rain.
The Milky Way, as seen from San Francisco.
Whoever could have imagined any of this was possible.
—laura hohlwein
Flommist Laura Hohlwein is a contemporary abstract surrealist. Copyright © 2020 Laura Hohlwein. Pictured up top: Sacramento’s William McKinley Park, earlier.
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