Your pandemic experience
Answer a question about your experience during the pandemic. All appropriate answers will be added to this page for others to read.
What others have said
What has been the most effective way you have found to mentally escape the pandemic?
Focusing on making my home a safe space. Spending so much time at home has motivated me to make it a place of rest and peace.
What book, story, or poem have you read since the pandemic began that you would recommend to others?
Lassoing the Sun by Mark Woods. This man spent a year traveling through America’s national parks and wrote a book about nature, life, and loss. It was really poignant.
What has been the most effective way you have found to mentally escape the pandemic?
I’ve had a difficult time escaping the pandemic. The things I normally love doing have seemed too overwhelming during the pandemic.
What three words sum up your experience living through a pandemic?
Angry—Sad—Apprehensive
What book, story, or poem have you read since the pandemic began that you would recommend to others?
Wanderers by Chuck Wendig. It’s an interesting pandemic story that contains reflections of what happened in the past year, even though it was written before the current pandemic.
What three words sum up your experience living through a pandemic?
Help. Others. Breathe.
What has been the most effective way you have found to mentally escape the pandemic?
Sleep 🙂
What three words sum up your experience living through a pandemic?
Youtube, Tea, and Sleep
What book, story, or poem have you read since the pandemic began that you would recommend to others?
Once in the West by Christian Wiman
What book, story, or poem have you read since the pandemic began that you would recommend to others?
family, mask, home
What book, story, or poem have you read since the pandemic began that you would recommend to others?
The Powder Mage trilogy by Brian McClellan
What has been the most effective way you have found to mentally escape the pandemic?
Spending more time with my newborn son
What has been the most effective way you have found to mentally escape the pandemic?
Stop watching the news, skip negative Facebook posts, and engage in activities with my family.
What three words sum up your experience living through a pandemic?
Determined, humbled, historic
What has been the most effective way you have found to mentally escape the pandemic?
TV