Letters Home 💌 #7

Writing from: Alma, Quebec

Dear Ones —

My last letter to you held some frustration. It’s inevitable: the past few years have felt like we’re living in quicksand. It feels like the media rules the world and tells people what to think about what it means to be responsible, safe and caring, even when it doesn’t make sense or combines contradicting directives. As for me, I have mostly chosen to tune out the media for the past year and my life has been infinitely better. But its tentacles can reach rather far. It doesn’t matter how much I want to block my ears; I can’t change reality and how this pandemic continues to affect our lives.

Paul and I have chosen an approach through the whole pandemic that holds a sense of responsibility for the boundaries and approaches of others but allows us to float as much as possible in the grey. It feels like an extension of the ways we choose to live in the best of times. Just because we don’t see others doing it, it doesn’t mean it’s not a valid path. Often, when we head off the…