No, Virginia, NYC is NOT post-COVID.
Hello, Readers All,
You’ll forgive my tunnel vision with this pandemic, but it’s kind of all there is some days. I read the opening paragraphs of an editorial in The Daily News (I know, I know) and the screeching about the utter and immediate necessity to reopen all restaurants, gyms, movie theaters, and saunas in our “post-COVID” city was deafening. What an idiot! Until we live in a post-COVID world, there’s no such thing as a post-COVID city. BAH!!!
How did we get to this place, anyway? Well, this certainly hasn’t helped.
One (White) Man Running the Show? | by Remington Write | The Partnered Pen | Medium
SO eighteenth century! Why are we still doing this?
There’s this thing that happens when you aren’t paying attention: you get older. And weirdly, people SEE you as old. Like this:
I Did NOT Sign Off on This!. Geriatric follow-up care for who… | by Remington Write | The Top Shelf | Medium
Geriatric follow-up care for who exactly?
I’m now going to do you a huge favor. I’m going to introduce you to Wislawa Szymborska, a truly gifted poet. You’ll thank me.
The Day I Knew I Wasn’t a Poet. Was the day I discovered Wislawa… | by Remington Write | The Partnered Pen | Medium
Was the day I discovered Wislawa Szymborska
On the fiction front, my partner AleXander and I have embarked on a new collaboration. In August 2020, AleXander set himself the challenge of creating a daily digital collage based on an image and a concept. The image was that of the antique Omega watch that belonged to his Mom and the concept was Time. In September 2020, the Anomalous Duo (that’s us, btw) are challenging ourselves to write a short piece of fiction for each collage. The Our Hours Project!
Here are our first stories and as of today, September 7 2020, we’re at work on our seventh stories.
Mine:
The Element of Time. Add an Element and Change the Whole… | by Remington Write | Medium
Add an Element and Change the Whole Picture
AleXander’s:
The Element Of Time. He Sees All! | by aleXander hirka | Medium
He Sees All!
More about the project can be found on our shared blog, The Anomalous Duo here:
Our Hours
In August 2020, AleXander set himself the challenge of creating a daily digital collage based on an image and a concept. The image was that …
Now about that annoying broken Ko-fi link. First, it’s not broken. I know it looks broken, but when I select it from the email or the web site version of the newsletter, it opens. I’ve written to the helpful folks at Buttondown to figure out why it looks broken, but I’m going to attach it here again this week. In case anyone would like to buy me a well-earned cuppa coffee after reading something they like a lot. It happens.
https://ko-fi.com/remingtonwriteSo that’s it, my good and faithful readers. Thank you for subscribing and for READING! Wow, so amazing to have readers. As ever, feel free to lob all well-meaning bits of constructive criticism or funny putdowns to: RemingtonWrite@gmail.com
Until next week! RW