quarantine – amo vitam

It’s been a while, hasn’t it. More than three months, to be precise. Steve and My Man and I went to Europe at the end of February for another family-event-with-stopover-in-London-on-the-way. While we were there, Covid-19 started ramping up, which did spoil the fun a bit, so when we came home in early March, we hunkered down with the family and pretty much stayed put.

I’ve been spending a lot of time ever since making things. Getting my hands into clay and garden dirt and bread dough (not all at once, silly! I do wash my hands in between) helps my soul stay grounded and cope with this very, very strange and disconcerting time.

Here’s a few pictures:

IMG_20200222_144453896_HDR — The British Museum,

IMG_20200225_112705532 — where I saw 5000-year-old spindle whorls from Troy. (Five! Thousand! Years! Old!)

IMG_20200223_110038773_HDR — At the Tower of You-know-where. (The Yeoman Warder was hilarious.)

IMG_20200223_145113504_HDR — Random kettle on London sidewalk. Because you never know when you’ll need a cuppa.

IMG_20200228_141045550_HDR — In Germany it was spring.

IMG_20200316_080447496_HDR — Then we came home.

IMG_20200327_101236272 — and I spun yarn

IMG_20200406_161403683 — and I grew seedlings

IMG_20200516_150346749 — and I made bread

IMG_20200417_190528676 — and I had glaze failures

IMG_20200415_160435262 — and I drew wonky pictures

IMG_20200427_204740674_MP — and I made weird poetry.

IMG_20200424_073121117_HDR — Steve was there, too.

And now it’s almost summer; the garden is growing and so are the dust bunnies in the corners of the house; I’ve almost run out of good clay and need to reconstitute the dried-up stuff I’ve been saving up for several years; I’m part-way through editing a novel I wrote during NaNoWriMo a few years ago; and Steve is telling me I ought to get back to writing some stories with bears in them (he’s a stuffed animal of a one-track-mind).

So now you know. How’s things been with you?

Life, the Universe, and Coping in the Time of Covid-19. Making things helps.

Tag: quarantine

It’s Been a While