Even now, [my mother] feeds me from her hands.

Perhaps we can create our own seven species… qualities for this time to help us focus on what we need to find in abundance within ourselves.

My whole pre-teen and teenage life, I watched films and television shows and thought, “Where am I?” Never before had I seen a girl with a subway map of scars on her body get the guy of her dreams. I had never seen a girl who used a walker be the prom queen.

QAnon content has crept into yoga and wellness sites, where you can find posts in girly fonts about Covid-19 being fake news, and how vaccinations are a government-led attempt to kill your children.

In a pandemic, and in the middle of nowhere, I found a new tradition.