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"content": "\u003ch2>1.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I was 24 when I first met John Prine. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’d been on stage earlier that night, and a group of fans had gathered by the stage door. John talked to each and every one, including me, as I stuttered out a your-music-has-gotten-me-through-some-hard-times speech that he’d surely heard a hundred times before. In the process, I recited \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iyyhnNIKe4\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">some of his own lyrics\u003c/a> back to him that had helped, and that he’d surely sung thousands of times:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>You can gaze out your window, get mad and get madder\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Throw your hands in the air, say ‘what does it matter’\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>But it don’t do no good to get angry, so help me, I know\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was gracious about it, of course. For a guy whose songs involved so many small things—old pawn shops, frozen bathtub water, being scared of bees—it was the big-question songs that people always wanted to quote to him. The ones about age, memory, death. “Hello in There.” “Souvenirs.” “Angel From Montgomery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in time, I grew to understand Prine’s focus on the little things. It’s a tool that songwriters talk about often: show, don’t tell. As I got older, I understood that “A heart stained in anger grows weak and grows bitter” was powerful, sure, but no more powerful than “There was four Italian sausages cooking on the outdoor grill, and man, they were \u003cem>ssssssssizzlin’\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Prine.BruisedCover-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13878313\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Prine.BruisedCover-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Prine.BruisedCover-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Prine.BruisedCover-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Prine.BruisedCover-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Prine.BruisedCover.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Somewhere in the middle of those two opposites in John Prine’s music, the big stuff and the small details, lay “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXqWdF0L4F4\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Late John Garfield Blues\u003c/a>.” When I lived alone, subsisting on ramen and scotch in a tiny downtown apartment, I gravitated to the song. Prine sang of everyday things like broken lamppost bulbs and fish that don’t bite, and in the middle, the big life revelations:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Old man sleeps with his conscience at night, young kid sleeps with his dreams\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>While the mentally ill sit perfectly still and live through life’s in-betweens\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’d play it over and over on my guitar, and sing the words, meditating on my condition. Was I veering toward mental illness? Was I just lonesome? Was there a difference? And why John Garfield, of all people?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast-forward a few years and I’m on the phone with Kris Kristofferson. He \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJwToR_Nokw\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">covered\u003c/a> “The Late John Garfield Blues” a few times, so I asked him what the song was about. “Oh, I’ll tell you a funny story about that song,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristofferson told me that when he was living at Rita Coolidge’s place in Hollywood, he bought Prine’s latest album \u003cem>Diamonds in the Rough\u003c/em> one day and was playing it on the turntable. “And it got to that song, and it kept stopping in that song! I said ‘What the hell’s wrong with this thing?’” Kristofferson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And we looked at the title, ‘The Late John Garfield Blues,’ and Rita said, ‘My God. \u003cem>This\u003c/em> was John Garfield’s house!’ There we were in John Garfield’s old house, and the record stopped twice to call our attention to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A mysterious happening for an even more mysterious tune. “As to what it’s about?” Kristofferson added. “God, I don’t know. But I love the song.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXqWdF0L4F4\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I saw John Prine five or six times. I watched him sing “Angel From Montgomery” with Bonnie Raitt, “Paradise” with Todd Snider, “In Spite of Ourselves” with Iris Dement. That last one was special: he’d just beaten throat cancer, and had a hit comeback with \u003cem>In Spite of Ourselves\u003c/em>, an album of duets about cheating and infidelity. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At every show I saw, Prine was showered with adoration, and not just from the fans. Once, at a songwriters-in-the-round benefit with Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Bruce Cockburn and Nanci Griffith, I witnessed the obvious reverence they all had for Prine when he sang. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His songs were covered by classic country singers like Johnny Cash, new country singers like Miranda Lambert, and rock bands like R.E.M. It was proof that his songs crossed generations, genres, and borders. (Imagine what a rap producer could do with the line “You know what blood looks like in a black and white video? / Shadows / \u003cem>Shhhhhhadows!\u003c/em>”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once, at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in Golden Gate Park, I climbed a tree to catch a glimpse of Prine’s set. From my perch, I could see the meadow overflowing with people, spilling into the bushes, over the fences, and high up on any hill that would provide a view. It was an incredible sight. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was loved that much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13878314\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Prine.Raitt_-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"(L-R) Bonnie Raitt and John Prine perform onstage at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on September 11, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13878314\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Prine.Raitt_-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Prine.Raitt_-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Prine.Raitt_-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Prine.Raitt_-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Prine.Raitt_.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R) Bonnie Raitt and John Prine perform onstage at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on September 11, 2019. \u003ccite>(Terry Wyatt/Getty Images for Americana Music Association)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>4.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At the record store, I ran into some musician friends, Henry and Brian. “Hey,” I suggested, “John Prine’s not gonna live forever. What say we put together a set of his songs so we can play a tribute show for him when he dies?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why wait until he dies?” Henry replied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so last year, we started rehearsing together, once a week, in Henry’s living room. We didn’t have to practice too hard; the songs ran in our blood. “Illegal Smile.” “Fish and Whistle.” “The Great Compromise.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In every corner of Prine’s catalog, we found unexpected riches beyond the well-known hits. “Grandpa Was a Carpenter,” an ode to ancestry and the simple life. “Clocks and Spoons,” a sweet lullaby. “Sabu Visits the Twin Cities Alone,” a quirky story about a child actor and his manager. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’d play and sing, dissect the songs, tell stories about how they related to various phases of our lives, and ask ourselves things like, “Is there anything more heartbreaking than ‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ujOTP8oPpY\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Far From Me\u003c/a>?’”:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Why we used to laugh together, and we’d dance to any old song\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Well you know, she still laughs with me, but she waits just a second too long\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We worked up over 20 of his songs, and were ready for the big tribute show. And wouldn’t you know it, right when John Prine died, we weren’t allowed to perform them, by law. I can just imagine him looking down at us and laughing, and saying: \u003cem>that’s the way the world goes ’round.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/john-prine-danny-clinch_custom-3263393f8040f375dab3b42b2615eccf60b8ab24-800x532.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13824006\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/john-prine-danny-clinch_custom-3263393f8040f375dab3b42b2615eccf60b8ab24-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/john-prine-danny-clinch_custom-3263393f8040f375dab3b42b2615eccf60b8ab24-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/john-prine-danny-clinch_custom-3263393f8040f375dab3b42b2615eccf60b8ab24-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/john-prine-danny-clinch_custom-3263393f8040f375dab3b42b2615eccf60b8ab24-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/john-prine-danny-clinch_custom-3263393f8040f375dab3b42b2615eccf60b8ab24-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/john-prine-danny-clinch_custom-3263393f8040f375dab3b42b2615eccf60b8ab24-520x346.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/john-prine-danny-clinch_custom-3263393f8040f375dab3b42b2615eccf60b8ab24.jpg 909w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>John Prine called my house one morning a few years back. We talked for 15 minutes, a typical phone interview to promote a concert in town. He’d just put out \u003cem>The Tree of Forgiveness\u003c/em>, his final album.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think everybody needs a little forgiveness,” Prine told me. “And I think the person who’s hardest to forgive is probably yourself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I didn’t think to ask what he needed to forgive himself for. Instead, we talked about things that excited him: reading newspapers, meeting younger fans, buying old cars on eBay late at night. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was excited, too, that the United States had term limits, and the fact that Trump “can’t be in there for more than eight years,” he said, adding, “I’m hoping he’s out of there in four.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Prine.SelfTitled-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13878315\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Prine.SelfTitled-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Prine.SelfTitled-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Prine.SelfTitled-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Prine.SelfTitled-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Prine.SelfTitled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>6.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, I was reading that Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-removes-inspector-general-who-was-to-oversee-2-trillion-stimulus-spending/2020/04/07/2f0c6cb8-78ea-11ea-9bee-c5bf9d2e3288_story.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">fired the inspector general assigned to oversee the $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief bill\u003c/a>, and thinking about words like dictatorship and kleptocracy, as one does these days. And then I saw that Prine had died. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I walked around my neighborhood in a daze. I knew it was coming, but the cause and the timing angered me. Prine died from the coronavirus, which Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/12/trump-coronavirus-timeline/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">spectacularly downplayed\u003c/a> for months, delaying preventative, life-saving measures. Now, as news of Prine’s death arrived, the president was ridding the government of those seen as disloyal, and effectively securing a blank checkbook for himself. It was all too much: the ascendancy of corruption and the death of good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For comfort, I started singing “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ7sc9Cbuiw\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Souvenirs\u003c/a>,” blending it with “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLVWEYUqGew\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Stone\u003c/a>”—with the line “sweet songs never last too long on broken radios.” But I could only think about how our radio is broken, and how John Prine was the sweetest song of all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then I tried singing “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmgYCI3OWw4\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Please Don’t Bury Me\u003c/a>,” one of Prine’s many songs about dying, with the part about giving his ears to the deaf “if they don’t mind the size.” A funny line, but I couldn’t bring myself to laugh. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then something else happened as I walked around. I noticed the small things, for a change. I poked my head inside a ’73 Volkswagen bug and studied the dashboard. I passed a few cats sitting in driveways, regal and unwilling to be pet. I examined the bark of a magnolia tree, which I’d never considered before. I watched a few people outside the old folks’ home, sitting on the bench talking, like they always do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I breathed a little easier. It was the quilt of little things that make up a life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It all felt like a John Prine song. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003ch2>1.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I was 24 when I first met John Prine. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’d been on stage earlier that night, and a group of fans had gathered by the stage door. John talked to each and every one, including me, as I stuttered out a your-music-has-gotten-me-through-some-hard-times speech that he’d surely heard a hundred times before. In the process, I recited \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iyyhnNIKe4\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">some of his own lyrics\u003c/a> back to him that had helped, and that he’d surely sung thousands of times:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>You can gaze out your window, get mad and get madder\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Throw your hands in the air, say ‘what does it matter’\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>But it don’t do no good to get angry, so help me, I know\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was gracious about it, of course. For a guy whose songs involved so many small things—old pawn shops, frozen bathtub water, being scared of bees—it was the big-question songs that people always wanted to quote to him. The ones about age, memory, death. “Hello in There.” “Souvenirs.” “Angel From Montgomery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in time, I grew to understand Prine’s focus on the little things. It’s a tool that songwriters talk about often: show, don’t tell. As I got older, I understood that “A heart stained in anger grows weak and grows bitter” was powerful, sure, but no more powerful than “There was four Italian sausages cooking on the outdoor grill, and man, they were \u003cem>ssssssssizzlin’\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Prine.BruisedCover-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13878313\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Prine.BruisedCover-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Prine.BruisedCover-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Prine.BruisedCover-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Prine.BruisedCover-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Prine.BruisedCover.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Somewhere in the middle of those two opposites in John Prine’s music, the big stuff and the small details, lay “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXqWdF0L4F4\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Late John Garfield Blues\u003c/a>.” When I lived alone, subsisting on ramen and scotch in a tiny downtown apartment, I gravitated to the song. Prine sang of everyday things like broken lamppost bulbs and fish that don’t bite, and in the middle, the big life revelations:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Old man sleeps with his conscience at night, young kid sleeps with his dreams\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>While the mentally ill sit perfectly still and live through life’s in-betweens\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’d play it over and over on my guitar, and sing the words, meditating on my condition. Was I veering toward mental illness? Was I just lonesome? Was there a difference? And why John Garfield, of all people?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast-forward a few years and I’m on the phone with Kris Kristofferson. He \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJwToR_Nokw\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">covered\u003c/a> “The Late John Garfield Blues” a few times, so I asked him what the song was about. “Oh, I’ll tell you a funny story about that song,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristofferson told me that when he was living at Rita Coolidge’s place in Hollywood, he bought Prine’s latest album \u003cem>Diamonds in the Rough\u003c/em> one day and was playing it on the turntable. “And it got to that song, and it kept stopping in that song! I said ‘What the hell’s wrong with this thing?’” Kristofferson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And we looked at the title, ‘The Late John Garfield Blues,’ and Rita said, ‘My God. \u003cem>This\u003c/em> was John Garfield’s house!’ There we were in John Garfield’s old house, and the record stopped twice to call our attention to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A mysterious happening for an even more mysterious tune. “As to what it’s about?” Kristofferson added. “God, I don’t know. But I love the song.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/vXqWdF0L4F4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/vXqWdF0L4F4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch2>3.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I saw John Prine five or six times. I watched him sing “Angel From Montgomery” with Bonnie Raitt, “Paradise” with Todd Snider, “In Spite of Ourselves” with Iris Dement. That last one was special: he’d just beaten throat cancer, and had a hit comeback with \u003cem>In Spite of Ourselves\u003c/em>, an album of duets about cheating and infidelity. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At every show I saw, Prine was showered with adoration, and not just from the fans. Once, at a songwriters-in-the-round benefit with Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Bruce Cockburn and Nanci Griffith, I witnessed the obvious reverence they all had for Prine when he sang. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His songs were covered by classic country singers like Johnny Cash, new country singers like Miranda Lambert, and rock bands like R.E.M. It was proof that his songs crossed generations, genres, and borders. (Imagine what a rap producer could do with the line “You know what blood looks like in a black and white video? / Shadows / \u003cem>Shhhhhhadows!\u003c/em>”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once, at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in Golden Gate Park, I climbed a tree to catch a glimpse of Prine’s set. From my perch, I could see the meadow overflowing with people, spilling into the bushes, over the fences, and high up on any hill that would provide a view. It was an incredible sight. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was loved that much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13878314\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Prine.Raitt_-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"(L-R) Bonnie Raitt and John Prine perform onstage at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on September 11, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13878314\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Prine.Raitt_-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Prine.Raitt_-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Prine.Raitt_-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Prine.Raitt_-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Prine.Raitt_.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R) Bonnie Raitt and John Prine perform onstage at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on September 11, 2019. \u003ccite>(Terry Wyatt/Getty Images for Americana Music Association)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>4.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At the record store, I ran into some musician friends, Henry and Brian. “Hey,” I suggested, “John Prine’s not gonna live forever. What say we put together a set of his songs so we can play a tribute show for him when he dies?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why wait until he dies?” Henry replied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so last year, we started rehearsing together, once a week, in Henry’s living room. We didn’t have to practice too hard; the songs ran in our blood. “Illegal Smile.” “Fish and Whistle.” “The Great Compromise.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In every corner of Prine’s catalog, we found unexpected riches beyond the well-known hits. “Grandpa Was a Carpenter,” an ode to ancestry and the simple life. “Clocks and Spoons,” a sweet lullaby. “Sabu Visits the Twin Cities Alone,” a quirky story about a child actor and his manager. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’d play and sing, dissect the songs, tell stories about how they related to various phases of our lives, and ask ourselves things like, “Is there anything more heartbreaking than ‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ujOTP8oPpY\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Far From Me\u003c/a>?’”:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Why we used to laugh together, and we’d dance to any old song\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Well you know, she still laughs with me, but she waits just a second too long\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We worked up over 20 of his songs, and were ready for the big tribute show. And wouldn’t you know it, right when John Prine died, we weren’t allowed to perform them, by law. I can just imagine him looking down at us and laughing, and saying: \u003cem>that’s the way the world goes ’round.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/john-prine-danny-clinch_custom-3263393f8040f375dab3b42b2615eccf60b8ab24-800x532.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13824006\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/john-prine-danny-clinch_custom-3263393f8040f375dab3b42b2615eccf60b8ab24-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/john-prine-danny-clinch_custom-3263393f8040f375dab3b42b2615eccf60b8ab24-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/john-prine-danny-clinch_custom-3263393f8040f375dab3b42b2615eccf60b8ab24-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/john-prine-danny-clinch_custom-3263393f8040f375dab3b42b2615eccf60b8ab24-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/john-prine-danny-clinch_custom-3263393f8040f375dab3b42b2615eccf60b8ab24-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/john-prine-danny-clinch_custom-3263393f8040f375dab3b42b2615eccf60b8ab24-520x346.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/john-prine-danny-clinch_custom-3263393f8040f375dab3b42b2615eccf60b8ab24.jpg 909w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>John Prine called my house one morning a few years back. We talked for 15 minutes, a typical phone interview to promote a concert in town. He’d just put out \u003cem>The Tree of Forgiveness\u003c/em>, his final album.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think everybody needs a little forgiveness,” Prine told me. “And I think the person who’s hardest to forgive is probably yourself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I didn’t think to ask what he needed to forgive himself for. Instead, we talked about things that excited him: reading newspapers, meeting younger fans, buying old cars on eBay late at night. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was excited, too, that the United States had term limits, and the fact that Trump “can’t be in there for more than eight years,” he said, adding, “I’m hoping he’s out of there in four.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Prine.SelfTitled-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13878315\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Prine.SelfTitled-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Prine.SelfTitled-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Prine.SelfTitled-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Prine.SelfTitled-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Prine.SelfTitled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>6.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, I was reading that Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-removes-inspector-general-who-was-to-oversee-2-trillion-stimulus-spending/2020/04/07/2f0c6cb8-78ea-11ea-9bee-c5bf9d2e3288_story.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">fired the inspector general assigned to oversee the $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief bill\u003c/a>, and thinking about words like dictatorship and kleptocracy, as one does these days. And then I saw that Prine had died. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I walked around my neighborhood in a daze. I knew it was coming, but the cause and the timing angered me. Prine died from the coronavirus, which Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/12/trump-coronavirus-timeline/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">spectacularly downplayed\u003c/a> for months, delaying preventative, life-saving measures. Now, as news of Prine’s death arrived, the president was ridding the government of those seen as disloyal, and effectively securing a blank checkbook for himself. It was all too much: the ascendancy of corruption and the death of good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For comfort, I started singing “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ7sc9Cbuiw\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Souvenirs\u003c/a>,” blending it with “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLVWEYUqGew\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Stone\u003c/a>”—with the line “sweet songs never last too long on broken radios.” But I could only think about how our radio is broken, and how John Prine was the sweetest song of all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then I tried singing “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmgYCI3OWw4\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Please Don’t Bury Me\u003c/a>,” one of Prine’s many songs about dying, with the part about giving his ears to the deaf “if they don’t mind the size.” A funny line, but I couldn’t bring myself to laugh. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then something else happened as I walked around. I noticed the small things, for a change. I poked my head inside a ’73 Volkswagen bug and studied the dashboard. I passed a few cats sitting in driveways, regal and unwilling to be pet. I examined the bark of a magnolia tree, which I’d never considered before. I watched a few people outside the old folks’ home, sitting on the bench talking, like they always do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I breathed a little easier. It was the quilt of little things that make up a life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It all felt like a John Prine song. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>o the young folks in San Francisco’s Juvenile Justice Department,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three weeks ago a rap artist and educator at San Francisco’s Juvenile Justice Center, \u003ca href=\"http://madlinesinfo.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MADlines\u003c/a>, put a call out for people to write letters to young folks behind bars. She’s since discontinued her efforts, since it’s so hard to get messages in, so I figured I’d write this open letter to ya’ll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, elected officials voted\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Closure-of-SF-s-juvenile-hall-less-than-one-13936500.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> to close the facility by the end of 2021\u003c/a>. The public record says there are fewer than \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/scorecards/public-safety/juvenile-hall-population\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">33 people\u003c/a> incarcerated in the facility right now, and the house list says there are only 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact there’s even one person in there is an issue, so I write to you today because we’ve failed you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And more importantly, we need you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span> visited the Juvenile Justice Center a few years back, and the racial makeup stuck with me. A lot of black and Latinx youth—not reflective of San Francisco’s overall population at all. What also stuck with me was the conversations I had, one with a group of young black men, and a separate one with a group of Latino men. Both were so bright and inquisitive and, most importantly, willing to tell their stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I took note of how their San Francisco was so different from the one you read about in the \u003cem>San Fransisco Chronicle\u003c/em> or KQED. A lot less talk about IPOs and start-ups, more talk about POs and learning to adapt. I bet their tale of America, and the world, is different as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It makes me think about a conversation I had last month with \u003ca href=\"https://www.earhustlesq.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Ear Hustle\u003c/em> podcast host\u003c/a>, Earlonne Woods. He’s a little older than you all; after serving 21 years, he had his 31-year sentence commuted in 2018, largely on the strength of the work he did through his podcast, which laid bare our society’s shortcomings: our prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13428656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13428656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/06/Story-pitch-session-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Nigel Poor, Antwan Williams and Earlonne Woods in a story pitch session at San Quentin, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/06/Story-pitch-session-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/06/Story-pitch-session-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/06/Story-pitch-session-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/06/Story-pitch-session-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/06/Story-pitch-session.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/06/Story-pitch-session-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/06/Story-pitch-session-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/06/Story-pitch-session-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/06/Story-pitch-session-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/06/Story-pitch-session-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nigel Poor, Antwan Williams and Earlonne Woods in a story pitch session at San Quentin, 2017. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Radiotopia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He told me about his experiences dealing with diseases while incarcerated: being quarantined during a norovirus outbreak, navigating around the spread of legionnaires disease and how the officials tried, but failed, at keeping people separated during flu season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They try to stop the most minimal movement, so it’ll pass,” says Woods. “But sometimes you’re in places where the ventilation ain’t the best, you know what I’m saying? So there’s a potential there to catch it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The structure is permeable on all levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having experienced that, Woods says he’s not shaken by what’s happening now. Even though he recognizes the magnitude of the moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re living in a significant piece of history, a worldwide [pandemic] that is killing millions of people and impacting millions more. A generational wave has occurred, and the commonality in this is that finding sufficient shelter is the key to survival.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s well documented that the prisons, jails, ICE holding centers and juvenile detention centers are anything but that. But somehow, people survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I called him that day, not just to check on him, but because of the message he posted on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/B9vCb9KBy7_/\">Instagram\u003c/a>: “The only people prepared for a lockdown is the formerly incarcerated,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After talking to him, it clicked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">B\u003c/span>eyond the spread of a virus and the unfortunate death toll; I’ve been trying to wrap my mind around how the proverbial system is failing people on multiple levels. There’s a general understanding among people I’ve talked to that isn’t just about a virus, but about a flawed system that let this unfortunate circumstance grow out of hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We could focus on what public health officials are describing as President Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/trump-coronavirus-response-criticism-adcb77db-a7ff-44b9-a0e0-52f5c4885e23.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">long list of blunders\u003c/a>, but long before 45, the system wasn’t working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health outcomes for working class people of color, specifically African Americans, have been bad since before the \u003ca href=\"https://belonging.berkeley.edu/1968-kerner-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kerner Report\u003c/a> was published. (That essentially was a survey where the government looked at the aftermath of a number of uprisings in inner-city America in the 1960s and basically said, \u003cem>Damn, maybe we should figure out why the negroes are so angry.)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13878211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13878211\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/CMF-hallway-backs-3-1020x574-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"California Medical Facility in Vacaville is one of California's 35 state prisons. Advocates are calling for the early release of low-risk jail and prison inmates who are vulnerable to coronavirus.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/CMF-hallway-backs-3-1020x574-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/CMF-hallway-backs-3-1020x574-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/CMF-hallway-backs-3-1020x574-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/CMF-hallway-backs-3-1020x574.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Medical Facility in Vacaville is one of California’s 35 state prisons. Advocates are calling for the early release of low-risk jail and prison inmates who are vulnerable to coronavirus. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/1968-kerner-commission-got-it-right-nobody-listened-180968318/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report\u003c/a> showed that nothing had significantly changed in 50 years for black folks in America since that study. And now we have this pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stats are starting to roll in from cities, counties and states who dare to \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/early-data-shows-african-americans-have-contracted-and-died-of-coronavirus-at-an-alarming-rate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report COVID-19 cases by race\u003c/a>. Those numbers, coupled with the fact scientists have determined that the virus \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/490641-covid-19-is-occurring-in-clusters-making-good-data-and-resource-allocation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hits clusters\u003c/a> of people with preexisting conditions the hardest, leave a target square on the backs of the state-issued uniforms worn by the black and brown people behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This country has the most incarcerated people per capita in the world by far. California is currently under a decade-old federal mandate to keep its population \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2011/05/23/136579580/california-is-ordered-to-cut-its-prison-population\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">below 137% of capacity\u003c/a>—the health concerns related to overcrowding were considered cruel and unusual punishment. As of April 1, California’s prison system was 130% of its capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prisons are bad, and the jails are no better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Alameda County’s Santa Rita Jail, where over \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/a-look-at-the-45-inmates-who-have-died-at-santa-rita-jail-in-the-last-five-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">45 people have died\u003c/a> in custody since 2014, activists have been working on health-related issues for some time—and that’s been intensified during this pandemic. Last month, the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee put out \u003ca href=\"https://iwocoakland.wordpress.com/2020/03/29/sheriff-grabbing-at-255m-for-guards-over-healthcare-during-covid-19/\">a press release\u003c/a> with safety demands for the folks behind bars. And over 25 other organizations signed in support of their efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While officials vie for \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DarwinBondGraha/status/1247550897430777856?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">85 million dollars\u003c/a> to hire more guards, there are reports of multiple pods being quarantined and officials testing positive. Just last weekend, the first incarcerated person officially tested positive at Santa Rita.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials have pulled some last ditch efforts: according to recent reports, nearly 250 people have been released early from Santa Rita to ease overcrowding, bookings are down and the intake process now involves taking people’s temperatures. But all of that is a tire patch on a sinking ship. And—because incarcerated people interact with staff—that ship is one that’s directly connected to people who aren’t behind bars. After all, “We’re all in this together,” right? [aside postid='arts_13876905,arts_13877983' label='More Commentary']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>o, I write this message in a bottle, hoping to paint a picture of the current reality. And secondly, to send an SOS to the folks in juvenile hall. You know, the ones society has failed the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just trying to reiterate that the people who are the closest to the problem are usually the most informed as to how the problem can be solved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re in month four of the known international spread of COVID-19, and here in the United States, specifically in California, it’s revealing just how sick our social systems are. But that’s not new to a certain segment of the population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We need you. We’ve failed you. But in order for us to not fail anyone else, we need you to tell us your stories. We need to honor your experiences and put pressure on those in power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It won’t end the immediate threat posed by the pandemic, but it will assist in making sure that this sick system doesn’t continue to fail young people of color when things are “back to normal.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span> visited the Juvenile Justice Center a few years back, and the racial makeup stuck with me. A lot of black and Latinx youth—not reflective of San Francisco’s overall population at all. What also stuck with me was the conversations I had, one with a group of young black men, and a separate one with a group of Latino men. Both were so bright and inquisitive and, most importantly, willing to tell their stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I took note of how their San Francisco was so different from the one you read about in the \u003cem>San Fransisco Chronicle\u003c/em> or KQED. A lot less talk about IPOs and start-ups, more talk about POs and learning to adapt. I bet their tale of America, and the world, is different as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It makes me think about a conversation I had last month with \u003ca href=\"https://www.earhustlesq.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Ear Hustle\u003c/em> podcast host\u003c/a>, Earlonne Woods. He’s a little older than you all; after serving 21 years, he had his 31-year sentence commuted in 2018, largely on the strength of the work he did through his podcast, which laid bare our society’s shortcomings: our prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13428656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13428656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/06/Story-pitch-session-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Nigel Poor, Antwan Williams and Earlonne Woods in a story pitch session at San Quentin, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/06/Story-pitch-session-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/06/Story-pitch-session-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/06/Story-pitch-session-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/06/Story-pitch-session-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/06/Story-pitch-session.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/06/Story-pitch-session-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/06/Story-pitch-session-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/06/Story-pitch-session-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/06/Story-pitch-session-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/06/Story-pitch-session-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nigel Poor, Antwan Williams and Earlonne Woods in a story pitch session at San Quentin, 2017. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Radiotopia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He told me about his experiences dealing with diseases while incarcerated: being quarantined during a norovirus outbreak, navigating around the spread of legionnaires disease and how the officials tried, but failed, at keeping people separated during flu season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They try to stop the most minimal movement, so it’ll pass,” says Woods. “But sometimes you’re in places where the ventilation ain’t the best, you know what I’m saying? So there’s a potential there to catch it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The structure is permeable on all levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having experienced that, Woods says he’s not shaken by what’s happening now. Even though he recognizes the magnitude of the moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re living in a significant piece of history, a worldwide [pandemic] that is killing millions of people and impacting millions more. A generational wave has occurred, and the commonality in this is that finding sufficient shelter is the key to survival.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s well documented that the prisons, jails, ICE holding centers and juvenile detention centers are anything but that. But somehow, people survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I called him that day, not just to check on him, but because of the message he posted on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/B9vCb9KBy7_/\">Instagram\u003c/a>: “The only people prepared for a lockdown is the formerly incarcerated,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After talking to him, it clicked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">B\u003c/span>eyond the spread of a virus and the unfortunate death toll; I’ve been trying to wrap my mind around how the proverbial system is failing people on multiple levels. There’s a general understanding among people I’ve talked to that isn’t just about a virus, but about a flawed system that let this unfortunate circumstance grow out of hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We could focus on what public health officials are describing as President Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/trump-coronavirus-response-criticism-adcb77db-a7ff-44b9-a0e0-52f5c4885e23.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">long list of blunders\u003c/a>, but long before 45, the system wasn’t working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health outcomes for working class people of color, specifically African Americans, have been bad since before the \u003ca href=\"https://belonging.berkeley.edu/1968-kerner-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kerner Report\u003c/a> was published. (That essentially was a survey where the government looked at the aftermath of a number of uprisings in inner-city America in the 1960s and basically said, \u003cem>Damn, maybe we should figure out why the negroes are so angry.)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13878211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13878211\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/CMF-hallway-backs-3-1020x574-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"California Medical Facility in Vacaville is one of California's 35 state prisons. Advocates are calling for the early release of low-risk jail and prison inmates who are vulnerable to coronavirus.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/CMF-hallway-backs-3-1020x574-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/CMF-hallway-backs-3-1020x574-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/CMF-hallway-backs-3-1020x574-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/CMF-hallway-backs-3-1020x574.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Medical Facility in Vacaville is one of California’s 35 state prisons. Advocates are calling for the early release of low-risk jail and prison inmates who are vulnerable to coronavirus. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/1968-kerner-commission-got-it-right-nobody-listened-180968318/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report\u003c/a> showed that nothing had significantly changed in 50 years for black folks in America since that study. And now we have this pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stats are starting to roll in from cities, counties and states who dare to \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/early-data-shows-african-americans-have-contracted-and-died-of-coronavirus-at-an-alarming-rate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report COVID-19 cases by race\u003c/a>. Those numbers, coupled with the fact scientists have determined that the virus \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/490641-covid-19-is-occurring-in-clusters-making-good-data-and-resource-allocation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hits clusters\u003c/a> of people with preexisting conditions the hardest, leave a target square on the backs of the state-issued uniforms worn by the black and brown people behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This country has the most incarcerated people per capita in the world by far. California is currently under a decade-old federal mandate to keep its population \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2011/05/23/136579580/california-is-ordered-to-cut-its-prison-population\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">below 137% of capacity\u003c/a>—the health concerns related to overcrowding were considered cruel and unusual punishment. As of April 1, California’s prison system was 130% of its capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prisons are bad, and the jails are no better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Alameda County’s Santa Rita Jail, where over \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/a-look-at-the-45-inmates-who-have-died-at-santa-rita-jail-in-the-last-five-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">45 people have died\u003c/a> in custody since 2014, activists have been working on health-related issues for some time—and that’s been intensified during this pandemic. Last month, the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee put out \u003ca href=\"https://iwocoakland.wordpress.com/2020/03/29/sheriff-grabbing-at-255m-for-guards-over-healthcare-during-covid-19/\">a press release\u003c/a> with safety demands for the folks behind bars. And over 25 other organizations signed in support of their efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While officials vie for \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DarwinBondGraha/status/1247550897430777856?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">85 million dollars\u003c/a> to hire more guards, there are reports of multiple pods being quarantined and officials testing positive. Just last weekend, the first incarcerated person officially tested positive at Santa Rita.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials have pulled some last ditch efforts: according to recent reports, nearly 250 people have been released early from Santa Rita to ease overcrowding, bookings are down and the intake process now involves taking people’s temperatures. But all of that is a tire patch on a sinking ship. And—because incarcerated people interact with staff—that ship is one that’s directly connected to people who aren’t behind bars. After all, “We’re all in this together,” right? \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>With the current shelter-in-place order, many of us have drawn on past experience to pass the time: revisiting old hobbies and reconnecting with memories that bring us comfort. But nostalgia can only provide so much consolation, and if you live alone, there’s no denying that the enforced solitude will feel increasingly\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13877748/have-you-lost-your-mind-yet-fantastic-negritos-shelter-in-place-anthem\"> difficult to bear\u003c/a>. Which means it’s time to create some next steps in your self-isolation plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While most of my friends were finishing their degrees and starting their careers, I spent the majority of my twenties on the road, working, living, and traveling in over 30 countries on five continents. And now, somewhat ironically, I find that the experience of roaming from place to place has prepared me best for sheltering-in-place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many accustomed to the compressed experience of a one- or two-week vacation, traveling can feel like a constant bustle. But a vagabond with an open-ended itinerary might spend years traveling in places where they have no roots, no friends, and rudimentary-to-no language skills. And since every penny must be conscientiously budgeted—limiting the number of extracurricular activities and entertainments available—even a gregarious individual will wind up spending a lot of time alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But “alone” need not mean “desperately lonely.” As the Bay Area enters its fourth week of sheltering in place, I’ve found the following techniques from my drifting days to be helpful for both keeping my distance and keeping up morale. Adapting some of them may help you stay the course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13878177\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/ShelterInPlace.Exercise.iSt_-800x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/ShelterInPlace.Exercise.iSt_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/ShelterInPlace.Exercise.iSt_-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/ShelterInPlace.Exercise.iSt_-768x554.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Physical Tips\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stay Active: \u003c/strong>I love loafing, but barring underlying medical conditions, you’ll generally feel better if you keep moving. As walking and cycling are still permitted activities (as long as you keep the proscribed distance from others, and consider the CDC’s recommendation to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/03/826219824/president-trump-says-cdc-now-recommends-americans-wear-cloth-masks-in-public\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wear a mask\u003c/a>), you may decide to brave the great outdoors for a daily constitutional. For individuals resolutely remaining inside, even a basic exercise routine will get your blood circulating and your muscles engaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m a personal fan of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECxYJcnvyMw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this seven-minute workout\u003c/a>, which I’ve adapted to many a small room while touring the Fringe Festival circuit. Currently the internet is awash with zoom fitness classes and quarantine routines, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/user/GovSchwarzenegger/comments/flz3es/stay_at_home_stay_fit/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one from none other than ex-Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger\u003c/a>. Whatever works for you, try to spend at least an hour a day in active motion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Experiment With Food:\u003c/strong> One of the great joys of traveling is discovering the foods of different regions, and I’ve made it a point to learn to cook many of them, from \u003cem>aioli \u003c/em>to \u003cem>yassa\u003c/em>. But even a non-cook can take this opportunity to try something new. My Twitter feed is bursting with people \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11679195/the-imperfect-art-of-bread-making\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">trying sourdough bread\u003c/a> for the first time. If you have access to extra veggies, make a quick vinegar pickle or try fermentation to preserve them. Grab a cocktail shaker and try to recreate your favorite pre-quarantine drink. Now is the time to play with your food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alternatively, since many restaurants are struggling to stay afloat, and if you have the money, consider ordering a meal—not just from your favorite restaurant, but from one you’ve never tried. Where do you want to travel to next when travel is allowed again? Find a restaurant that makes \u003cem>that\u003c/em> food, and savor those flavors when you’re there next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Make it Fashion:\u003c/strong> One thing you learn when you’re living out of a backpack is how to maximize what little you have. But eventually, apartment dwellers avoiding the laundromat might contemplate the feasibility of hand washing their clothes. My main recommendation is not to wait until you’re out of clean clothes, because if you don’t have an outdoor line, you’ll need up to 48 hours to dry them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In under 10 minutes a day you can wash one shirt, one pair of underwear, and one pair of socks in your bathroom sink or shower, ensuring you never run out completely. Use liquid laundry detergent, or pretend you’re camping and use an all-in-one soap like Dr. Bronner’s. Fill the sink with warm water and suds, slosh the clothing around with your hands like an agitation cycle, and then spot scrub by gripping the fabric between your hands and rubbing together briskly. Pull your socks over your hands like puppets and sing your favorite 20-second hand-washing song while you scrub. Rinse thoroughly under the tap until the water runs clear, and wring the garment by twisting it until it stops dripping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you can’t hang a drying line outside, then you can dry clothes over a handrail, a doorframe, hangers, or the backs of chairs—whatever you’ve got.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13878175\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/ShelterInPlace.Company.iSto_-800x566.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/ShelterInPlace.Company.iSto_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/ShelterInPlace.Company.iSto_-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/ShelterInPlace.Company.iSto_-768x543.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Psychological Tips\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stay in Touch: \u003c/strong>It really wasn’t \u003cem>that\u003c/em> long ago that the internet didn’t even exist. And there’s something about the tangibility of an actual letter that makes their exchange feel more meaningful. Send your loved ones \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13876983/now-is-the-time-to-send-your-loved-ones-mail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">some postcards\u003c/a>, recollections, or mementoes. Start a round-robin poetry or recipe exchange. Dabble in mail art. Write to your elected officials. For now, the USPS is considered an essential service—and you can help keep them essential by making use of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve got the bandwidth, hosting or joining a video-chat activity is a great way to keep in touch with your larger communities. Almost overnight, online karaoke parties, game nights, play readings, improv classes, and other group-oriented video chats have proliferated, and streaming options have made \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13876941/a-list-of-live-virtual-concerts-to-watch-during-the-coronavirus-shutdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">world-class performances\u003c/a> and indie outliers alike available to anyone with internet access. Set a date night with yourself and expand your cultural horizons from home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lastly, don’t forget to keep some kind of journal or other record. You might think you won’t want to remember this time in your life, but if we want to be included in the historical record, we have to keep track of it ourselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Set Goals: \u003c/strong>I love a to-do list, and I’m completely unashamed to put things like “shower,” and “pay bills” on it just for the pure satisfaction of crossing them off. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>With the current shelter-in-place order, many of us have drawn on past experience to pass the time: revisiting old hobbies and reconnecting with memories that bring us comfort. But nostalgia can only provide so much consolation, and if you live alone, there’s no denying that the enforced solitude will feel increasingly\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13877748/have-you-lost-your-mind-yet-fantastic-negritos-shelter-in-place-anthem\"> difficult to bear\u003c/a>. Which means it’s time to create some next steps in your self-isolation plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While most of my friends were finishing their degrees and starting their careers, I spent the majority of my twenties on the road, working, living, and traveling in over 30 countries on five continents. And now, somewhat ironically, I find that the experience of roaming from place to place has prepared me best for sheltering-in-place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many accustomed to the compressed experience of a one- or two-week vacation, traveling can feel like a constant bustle. But a vagabond with an open-ended itinerary might spend years traveling in places where they have no roots, no friends, and rudimentary-to-no language skills. And since every penny must be conscientiously budgeted—limiting the number of extracurricular activities and entertainments available—even a gregarious individual will wind up spending a lot of time alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But “alone” need not mean “desperately lonely.” As the Bay Area enters its fourth week of sheltering in place, I’ve found the following techniques from my drifting days to be helpful for both keeping my distance and keeping up morale. Adapting some of them may help you stay the course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13878177\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/ShelterInPlace.Exercise.iSt_-800x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/ShelterInPlace.Exercise.iSt_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/ShelterInPlace.Exercise.iSt_-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/ShelterInPlace.Exercise.iSt_-768x554.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Physical Tips\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stay Active: \u003c/strong>I love loafing, but barring underlying medical conditions, you’ll generally feel better if you keep moving. As walking and cycling are still permitted activities (as long as you keep the proscribed distance from others, and consider the CDC’s recommendation to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/03/826219824/president-trump-says-cdc-now-recommends-americans-wear-cloth-masks-in-public\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wear a mask\u003c/a>), you may decide to brave the great outdoors for a daily constitutional. For individuals resolutely remaining inside, even a basic exercise routine will get your blood circulating and your muscles engaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m a personal fan of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECxYJcnvyMw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this seven-minute workout\u003c/a>, which I’ve adapted to many a small room while touring the Fringe Festival circuit. Currently the internet is awash with zoom fitness classes and quarantine routines, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/user/GovSchwarzenegger/comments/flz3es/stay_at_home_stay_fit/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one from none other than ex-Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger\u003c/a>. Whatever works for you, try to spend at least an hour a day in active motion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Experiment With Food:\u003c/strong> One of the great joys of traveling is discovering the foods of different regions, and I’ve made it a point to learn to cook many of them, from \u003cem>aioli \u003c/em>to \u003cem>yassa\u003c/em>. But even a non-cook can take this opportunity to try something new. My Twitter feed is bursting with people \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11679195/the-imperfect-art-of-bread-making\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">trying sourdough bread\u003c/a> for the first time. If you have access to extra veggies, make a quick vinegar pickle or try fermentation to preserve them. Grab a cocktail shaker and try to recreate your favorite pre-quarantine drink. Now is the time to play with your food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alternatively, since many restaurants are struggling to stay afloat, and if you have the money, consider ordering a meal—not just from your favorite restaurant, but from one you’ve never tried. Where do you want to travel to next when travel is allowed again? Find a restaurant that makes \u003cem>that\u003c/em> food, and savor those flavors when you’re there next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Make it Fashion:\u003c/strong> One thing you learn when you’re living out of a backpack is how to maximize what little you have. But eventually, apartment dwellers avoiding the laundromat might contemplate the feasibility of hand washing their clothes. My main recommendation is not to wait until you’re out of clean clothes, because if you don’t have an outdoor line, you’ll need up to 48 hours to dry them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In under 10 minutes a day you can wash one shirt, one pair of underwear, and one pair of socks in your bathroom sink or shower, ensuring you never run out completely. Use liquid laundry detergent, or pretend you’re camping and use an all-in-one soap like Dr. Bronner’s. Fill the sink with warm water and suds, slosh the clothing around with your hands like an agitation cycle, and then spot scrub by gripping the fabric between your hands and rubbing together briskly. Pull your socks over your hands like puppets and sing your favorite 20-second hand-washing song while you scrub. Rinse thoroughly under the tap until the water runs clear, and wring the garment by twisting it until it stops dripping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you can’t hang a drying line outside, then you can dry clothes over a handrail, a doorframe, hangers, or the backs of chairs—whatever you’ve got.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13878175\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/ShelterInPlace.Company.iSto_-800x566.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/ShelterInPlace.Company.iSto_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/ShelterInPlace.Company.iSto_-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/ShelterInPlace.Company.iSto_-768x543.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Psychological Tips\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stay in Touch: \u003c/strong>It really wasn’t \u003cem>that\u003c/em> long ago that the internet didn’t even exist. And there’s something about the tangibility of an actual letter that makes their exchange feel more meaningful. Send your loved ones \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13876983/now-is-the-time-to-send-your-loved-ones-mail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">some postcards\u003c/a>, recollections, or mementoes. Start a round-robin poetry or recipe exchange. Dabble in mail art. Write to your elected officials. For now, the USPS is considered an essential service—and you can help keep them essential by making use of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve got the bandwidth, hosting or joining a video-chat activity is a great way to keep in touch with your larger communities. Almost overnight, online karaoke parties, game nights, play readings, improv classes, and other group-oriented video chats have proliferated, and streaming options have made \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13876941/a-list-of-live-virtual-concerts-to-watch-during-the-coronavirus-shutdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">world-class performances\u003c/a> and indie outliers alike available to anyone with internet access. Set a date night with yourself and expand your cultural horizons from home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lastly, don’t forget to keep some kind of journal or other record. You might think you won’t want to remember this time in your life, but if we want to be included in the historical record, we have to keep track of it ourselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Set Goals: \u003c/strong>I love a to-do list, and I’m completely unashamed to put things like “shower,” and “pay bills” on it just for the pure satisfaction of crossing them off. But while you might have already noticed that all of that “extra” time you supposedly have is not stretching as far as you envisioned, setting some modest goals for yourself will keep you from feeling too unrooted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Have a bad habit you’d like to kick? With no one around to drive crazy as you wean yourself from coffee, chewing your nails, tobacco, or extra sugar, you might take this as an opportunity to get clean. (It took traveling to Timbuktu to get me to finally quit smoking.) Or forget Dry July, and get into Abstaining April. If quitting is not for you right now, try taking up a new pastime, plant a few seeds, or volunteer for a political cause from home. A small amount of personal reinvention might be just the ticket to keeping your distracted brain occupied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Surrender Control: \u003c/strong>You know what? It’s really, really hard to be on your own 24/7. So don’t beat yourself up for feeling at a loss. 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"content": "\u003cp>A couple weeks ago, a meme started doing the rounds on social media, claiming that Nostradamus had predicted the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13878180\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 305px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13878180\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-06-at-1.44.25-PM.png\" alt=\"Everything written here is entirely false.\" width=\"305\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-06-at-1.44.25-PM.png 305w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-06-at-1.44.25-PM-160x243.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Everything written here is entirely false.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nostradamus-covid-19/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Snopes\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/06/facebook-posts/no-evidence-nostradamus-predicted-novel-coronaviru/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Politifact\u003c/a> quickly stepped up to point out that the claims in the image are fabricated nonsense, and Facebook has since started flagging and obscuring the image with a “false information” tag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nostradamus was notoriously vague in many of the predictions he made in his 1555 book, \u003cem>Les Prophéties. \u003c/em>But even after nearly five centuries, humans still find themselves turning to his writings in times of woe—probably because of what he \u003cem>did\u003c/em> get right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13892672']Nostradamus victories include air travel (“People will travel safely through the sky”), the year of the great fire of London (“The blood of the just will be demanded of London burnt by fire in three times twenty plus six”) and the rise of Hitler (though Nostradamus referred to him as “Hister.”) It’s worth noting that the astrologer also wrote about something that bears a striking resemblance to 9/11. (“The sky will burn at forty-five degrees, fire approaches the great New City. Immediately a huge scattered flame leaps up.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, some Nostradamus fans, eager to find coronavirus content in \u003cem>Les Prophéties,\u003c/em> have pointed to passages that are aggravatingly non-specific. Like the one that references “\u003ca href=\"https://www.msn.com/en-sg/news/world/did-nostradamus-predict-the-coronavirus/ar-BBZDRa6?li=AAaGkVj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The great plague of the maritime city\u003c/a>,” and the one that says “\u003ca href=\"https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/1265043/Nostradamus-quatrains-prophecies-plague-coronavirus-prediction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">And diverse plagues will be upon mankind\u003c/a>.” But this morning I found one that appears to be a lot more specific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Prophecies of Nostradamus\u003c/em> by Erika Cheetham is a complete translation of the original text, first published in 1973. Naturally, I just happen to have a copy lying around for lockdown and today I found both a reference to “plague, lightning and hail at the end of March,” and, more importantly, this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In the feeble lists, great calamity through America and Lombardy. The fire in the ship, plague and captivity; Mercury in Sagittarius, Saturn warning.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>We can all understand the references to “plague and captivity” at this point, but everything else in this passage lines up too. Assuming “the feeble lists” refer to the sick and the dead, America and Italy (Lombardy is a region in the north of the country) are in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/06/coronavirus-world-map-which-countries-have-the-most-cases-and-deaths-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">top three\u003c/a> most infected countries so far, along with Spain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/12/8977939/mercury-in-sagittarius-december-2019-astrology-meaning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mercury entered Sagittarius\u003c/a> in December 2019, which is when the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/p0121-novel-coronavirus-travel-case.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first cases of coronavirus\u003c/a> occurred, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.lovelanyadoo.com/monthly-horoscope/2020/2/24/march-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Saturn moved into Aquarius\u003c/a> on March 21, right as New York City was going into lockdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13894837']As for the fire in the ship, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/cruise-ships-stranded-coronavirus-trnd/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">multiple cruise liners\u003c/a> have become stranded at sea during this crisis due to coronavirus emergencies on board. This includes the \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/cruises/2020/03/16/coronavirus-grand-princess-departs-oakland-lets-off-crew/5058788002/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grand Princess\u003c/a>, which docked in Oakland on March 9 with 21 confirmed coronavirus cases on board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of which suggests that Nostradamus did see this coming after all. It wouldn’t be the first time. The following passage is often interpreted as predicting World War I and the flu epidemic that killed over 50 million people directly afterwards:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The dreadful war which prepared in the West, the following year the pestilence will come, so very horrible that young, nor old, nor animal (will survive).\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Try not to feel too frustrated about our current predicament though. Things could always be worse. After all, Nostradamus has also predicted an imminent zombie apocalypse:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The year of the great seventh number accomplished, it will appear at the time of the games of slaughter, not far from the age of the great millennium, when the dead will come out of their graves.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Something for us to look forward to in 2027?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The text of this story was updated after several readers contacted KQED to confirm that Mercury entered Sagittarius in December.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Nostradamus victories include air travel (“People will travel safely through the sky”), the year of the great fire of London (“The blood of the just will be demanded of London burnt by fire in three times twenty plus six”) and the rise of Hitler (though Nostradamus referred to him as “Hister.”) It’s worth noting that the astrologer also wrote about something that bears a striking resemblance to 9/11. (“The sky will burn at forty-five degrees, fire approaches the great New City. Immediately a huge scattered flame leaps up.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, some Nostradamus fans, eager to find coronavirus content in \u003cem>Les Prophéties,\u003c/em> have pointed to passages that are aggravatingly non-specific. Like the one that references “\u003ca href=\"https://www.msn.com/en-sg/news/world/did-nostradamus-predict-the-coronavirus/ar-BBZDRa6?li=AAaGkVj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The great plague of the maritime city\u003c/a>,” and the one that says “\u003ca href=\"https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/1265043/Nostradamus-quatrains-prophecies-plague-coronavirus-prediction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">And diverse plagues will be upon mankind\u003c/a>.” But this morning I found one that appears to be a lot more specific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>As for the fire in the ship, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/cruise-ships-stranded-coronavirus-trnd/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">multiple cruise liners\u003c/a> have become stranded at sea during this crisis due to coronavirus emergencies on board. This includes the \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/cruises/2020/03/16/coronavirus-grand-princess-departs-oakland-lets-off-crew/5058788002/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grand Princess\u003c/a>, which docked in Oakland on March 9 with 21 confirmed coronavirus cases on board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of which suggests that Nostradamus did see this coming after all. It wouldn’t be the first time. The following passage is often interpreted as predicting World War I and the flu epidemic that killed over 50 million people directly afterwards:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The dreadful war which prepared in the West, the following year the pestilence will come, so very horrible that young, nor old, nor animal (will survive).\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Try not to feel too frustrated about our current predicament though. Things could always be worse. After all, Nostradamus has also predicted an imminent zombie apocalypse:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The year of the great seventh number accomplished, it will appear at the time of the games of slaughter, not far from the age of the great millennium, when the dead will come out of their graves.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Something for us to look forward to in 2027?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The text of this story was updated after several readers contacted KQED to confirm that Mercury entered Sagittarius in December.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>“Zoom” used to be a verb that described fast movement. Physical movement—remember that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now it’s a place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Meet you in Zoom.” It’s a conference room, a neighborhood bar, a club, a classroom, a church, a therapist’s office, a place to see friends and family. Just when we thought we couldn’t stuff more daily life into the cloud, here we are, constantly Zooming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some of us, Zoom came out of nowhere. But Zoom Video Communications, based in San Jose, has been around since 2011. We just didn’t need it yet. The company’s eponymous product—videoconferencing software that’s fairly easy to download and use, even by the uninitiated—has rapidly become the de facto mode of communication during coronavirus pandemic, with many of us working from home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Zoom the company doesn’t release download or usage numbers, Zoom the app has been the top free download in Apple’s App Store for over a week (followed by TikTok and Google Hangouts). According to the \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/style/zoom-parties-coronavirus-memes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Times\u003c/a>\u003c/i>, the company is currently valued at $29 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early stages of this cultural shift, as we slowly acclimate to our new lives on Zoom, the now-familiar awkwardness of the format has emerged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ikasliwal/status/1237155837639938048\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Invariably, someone will forget to mute themselves. Invariably, someone (maybe the same someone) will also forget to \u003ci>unmute\u003c/i> themselves. At least 10 minutes of every hour-long meeting is eaten up by “Can you hear me?” “You’re muted, you have to click the button.” “Is so-and-so here? I can’t see her.” “Can you mute yourself? We’re hearing some background noise.” “Who said that?” “I’m sorry, you go ahead.” “No, you go.” Ad infinitum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People launch into poetic or encouraging speeches about the importance of continuing to do our very important work, unaware that they’ve frozen on everyone else’s screens with only garbled half-words coming through the ether. Someone attempting to use Zoom without headphones creates an echoing feedback loop that drives everyone momentarily insane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This really emphasizes the importance of headphones,” explains nonprofit employee Katy Kondo, who lives in Oakland and works remotely once a week as part of her regular calendar. She has long known of Zoom’s foibles. She is pro-mute and pro-headphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s better to be muted and get that reminder than the other way around,” she advises sagely. (When muted, the software will pick up on your voice and ask you if you’d like to share your feelings publicly.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kondo tours me through Zoom’s features, including the “Touch up my appearance” check box (under “Preferences” and then “Video”), which creates a slight softening of one’s skin, minimizing blemishes and imperfections. It blows my mind. Check one box and you can approach your videoconferences with the confidence of someone who actually pays attention to their face in the morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13877624\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13877624\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DavidMarks.ThisisFine-800x444.jpg\" alt=\"David Marks, digital editor at KQED, reflects the times with a custom background on Zoom.\" width=\"800\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DavidMarks.ThisisFine-800x444.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DavidMarks.ThisisFine-160x89.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DavidMarks.ThisisFine-768x426.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DavidMarks.ThisisFine-1020x566.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DavidMarks.ThisisFine-672x372.jpg 672w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DavidMarks.ThisisFine-1038x576.jpg 1038w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DavidMarks.ThisisFine-1920x1065.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DavidMarks.ThisisFine.jpg 2040w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Marks, digital editor at KQED, reflects the times with a custom background on Zoom.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then there’s the \u003ca href=\"https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/210707503-Virtual-Background\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">virtual backgrounds\u003c/a>, which students have creatively identified as the solution to messy rooms. One of my coworkers uses the “This is Fine” meme as his background, while another uses an image of the Park family’s living room from \u003ci>Parasite\u003c/i>. (This feels appropriate; Zoom is the virtual space of late capitalism.) The software is fairly good at recognizing what’s background and what’s you, but you can create wonderfully trippy images by clicking a box claiming “I have a green screen” (“Preferences,” then “Virtual Background”) and selecting one’s face as the green screen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an amazing hack recently demonstrated to me, a brilliant man made a video of himself sitting in front of his computer, nodding thoughtfully at regular intervals. When he uses this looping video as his virtual background, he can step away from the computer and still appear dutifully present. (Remember, though, that Zoom has \u003ca href=\"https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115000538083-Attendee-attention-tracking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a built-in feature\u003c/a> that can alert your boss if you’re not engaged with the screen.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conversely, Kondo advises those who want to be taken seriously while working from home to be minutely aware of their lighting and surroundings. “It’s really funny when you’re backlit, it looks like you’re on a weird crime show recreation,” she says. “I do believe in setting up a space. Is there a mirror behind you? Are you fully conscious of everything that’s in view? If you wear glasses, can you see a reflection in them?” She notes that while you may appear small on your own screen, that’s not the case for everyone—details like an explicit book spine on the shelf behind you can be rendered large on your boss’ screen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13877600\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13877600\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/WhitneyKaraoke.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/WhitneyKaraoke.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/WhitneyKaraoke-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/WhitneyKaraoke-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/WhitneyKaraoke-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/WhitneyKaraoke-1020x574.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Share your screen and get the party started. \u003ccite>(YouTube)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But enough of work. What about the eight hours of the day reserved for recreation that are now prime Zoom hours? In the past two weeks I’ve had Zoom cocktails with friends, Zoom dinner parties, Zoom game nights. A Zoom book club meeting looms in my future. Zoom dating \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13877358/how-people-are-dating-when-theyre-stuck-together-or-forced-apart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is a thing\u003c/a>. A colleague and her friends even organized a Zoom Whitney Houston karaoke party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s not just Zoom. My previously Luddite family is FaceTiming. Google Hangouts have been requested and answered mid-meal. I gaze at people’s slightly pixelated faces on computer and phone screens all day long. It’s exhausting being so visibly in touch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At some point you’re like, why aren’t I on a phone call?” Kondo says. “Right now because we’re isolated it does feel special. 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Check one box and you can approach your videoconferences with the confidence of someone who actually pays attention to their face in the morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13877624\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13877624\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DavidMarks.ThisisFine-800x444.jpg\" alt=\"David Marks, digital editor at KQED, reflects the times with a custom background on Zoom.\" width=\"800\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DavidMarks.ThisisFine-800x444.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DavidMarks.ThisisFine-160x89.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DavidMarks.ThisisFine-768x426.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DavidMarks.ThisisFine-1020x566.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DavidMarks.ThisisFine-672x372.jpg 672w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DavidMarks.ThisisFine-1038x576.jpg 1038w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DavidMarks.ThisisFine-1920x1065.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DavidMarks.ThisisFine.jpg 2040w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Marks, digital editor at KQED, reflects the times with a custom background on Zoom.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then there’s the \u003ca href=\"https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/210707503-Virtual-Background\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">virtual backgrounds\u003c/a>, which students have creatively identified as the solution to messy rooms. One of my coworkers uses the “This is Fine” meme as his background, while another uses an image of the Park family’s living room from \u003ci>Parasite\u003c/i>. (This feels appropriate; Zoom is the virtual space of late capitalism.) The software is fairly good at recognizing what’s background and what’s you, but you can create wonderfully trippy images by clicking a box claiming “I have a green screen” (“Preferences,” then “Virtual Background”) and selecting one’s face as the green screen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an amazing hack recently demonstrated to me, a brilliant man made a video of himself sitting in front of his computer, nodding thoughtfully at regular intervals. When he uses this looping video as his virtual background, he can step away from the computer and still appear dutifully present. (Remember, though, that Zoom has \u003ca href=\"https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115000538083-Attendee-attention-tracking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a built-in feature\u003c/a> that can alert your boss if you’re not engaged with the screen.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conversely, Kondo advises those who want to be taken seriously while working from home to be minutely aware of their lighting and surroundings. “It’s really funny when you’re backlit, it looks like you’re on a weird crime show recreation,” she says. “I do believe in setting up a space. Is there a mirror behind you? Are you fully conscious of everything that’s in view? 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What about the eight hours of the day reserved for recreation that are now prime Zoom hours? In the past two weeks I’ve had Zoom cocktails with friends, Zoom dinner parties, Zoom game nights. A Zoom book club meeting looms in my future. Zoom dating \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13877358/how-people-are-dating-when-theyre-stuck-together-or-forced-apart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is a thing\u003c/a>. A colleague and her friends even organized a Zoom Whitney Houston karaoke party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s not just Zoom. My previously Luddite family is FaceTiming. Google Hangouts have been requested and answered mid-meal. I gaze at people’s slightly pixelated faces on computer and phone screens all day long. It’s exhausting being so visibly in touch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At some point you’re like, why aren’t I on a phone call?” Kondo says. “Right now because we’re isolated it does feel special. But sometimes a phone call is just fine, and sometimes you’re overcomplicating it by making it a video call.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we end our Zoom interview that likely could have been a phone call, Kondo has a hopeful thought: That our time spent on Zoom together in these shelter-in-place weeks will bring us a \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/Mh4f9AYRCZY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">greater understanding\u003c/a> of our fellow Zoomers’ private lives. And with that, we’ll grow more empathetic towards one another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You become really transported into where the other person is,” Kondo explains. “You’re aware of their larger environment in a way you wouldn’t be before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flattened onto screens, we may all become more three-dimensional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>t was two weeks ago when I watched a sunset turn the heavens into an ill magenta-sorbet over Lake Merritt. As people gathered along the eastern shore of the 150-year-old man-made jewel of a lagoon to snap shots on their phones, I had no idea it’d be the last gathering I attended before the great social distancing of 2020 started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, I’ve been on my couch, lost. I can’t even tell you which way the sky is. So many questions: How can the government expect us to listen after lying to us for so long? How can they ask us to shelter in place without making testing available? What more can I do in my work as a journalist? Can you freeze rent nationwide? Why wasn’t Jordan scrutinized for playing with the flu in the ’97 finals? Why are people buying so much toilet paper? How do I protect a three-year-old from germs? Why am I here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amidst all this uncertainty there’s one thing that’s for damn sure: the rat race has paused, momentarily. At least for a significant portion of the population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With healthcare workers, service providers and other essential employees patrolling the front lines in the war against the coronavirus, most of us are trying to do nothing, told to stay inside. The biggest request of us is that we rid our palms of any filth the world has brought upon us. Take your time and wash your hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A perfect opportunity to think about the purpose of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/iStock.Compass-800x561.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"561\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13877332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/iStock.Compass.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/iStock.Compass-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/iStock.Compass-768x539.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">F\u003c/span>or me, it starts with a lil’ bit of anxiety slipping into the red wine I drink at 3am. The witching hour is also when I clean the dishes, sweep the floors and simultaneously absorb the news from the day before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So many reports stick with me: The saga of \u003ca href=\"https://graphics.reuters.com/CHINA-HEALTH-SOUTHKOREA-CLUSTERS/0100B5G33SB/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Patient 31\u003c/a>—a close look at COVID-19 spread in South Korea. The nurses in Oakland who have to \u003ca href=\"https://theintercept.com/2020/03/21/oakland-coronavirus-hospital-kaiser/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reuse their masks and other medical gear\u003c/a>. The predictions of \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/12-million-americans-imperial-college-study_n_5e705085c5b6eab7793b5b49\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hundreds of thousands of deaths\u003c/a> that might occur around the world. The preventative measures taken by places like \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/inmates-die-prison-riots-coronavirus-rules-italy-200309125813658.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Santa Rita County Jail\u003c/a>, which recently released a couple hundred non-violent offenders. And the sobering truth that simply by their design, prisons will \u003ca href=\"https://theappeal.org/first-two-coronavirus-cases-confirmed-at-california-prisons/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">still be hit hard\u003c/a> by the coronvirus’ spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other night, I took a break from checking the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CDC’s site\u003c/a> to Google “Can you die from reading too much?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then I stepped away. It’s not fair to make myself sicker during this time. This is about preventing, and if possible, purging illnesses. I want to look back at this period and remember how I finally got my shit together, ya know? I don’t know about y’all, but I’ve got some pains and problems that aren’t big enough to stop me, but I feel ’em, daily. And I never really had the time to address ’em, until now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My problems?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being an overachiever, because being black and broke made me feel inferior. Being an overly focused father, because I fear following my pop’s path. Carrying inner misogyny, because my mindset was made in the USA. Being easily distracted, because I don’t always believe in myself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s more, but those are the ones that come to mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How do I address ’em? Do the heavy lift: pick up the phone and have the hard conversations. Wield a pen and write. Hold the hand mirror and reflect. Clutch a cup of some tea, lift a lighter to some candles and turn up some tunes from Miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don’t get me wrong, I’ve also katted off on Twitter and Instagram. Gigged to \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/dnice/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">D-Nice’s IG Live\u003c/a>, vibed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/djmujie/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DJ Mujie’s IG\u003c/a> feed and nodded as \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/drewwwbanga/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Drew Banga\u003c/a> made beats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve watched \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfwNU_g07hY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">marble racing\u003c/a>, the live cameras at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13877094/8-calming-livecams-of-kittens-penguins-jellyfish-and-more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Diego Zoo\u003c/a> and old athletic highlight reels (\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Etdoe_Dh3k0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pernell “Sweet Pea” Whitaker\u003c/a> was a defensive boxing beast).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I unfortunately found myself watching—this is embarrassing—\u003cem>America’s Funniest Home Videos\u003c/em>. But the mindless content is just a counterbalance for the heavier lifting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take the third episode of professor Jason Seals’ podcast, \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-moment-of-truth/id1470178615?i=1000444533752\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>A Moment of Truth\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. It features a conversation with an assistant professor in SF State’s Department of Africana Studies, Dr. Ifetayo Flannery. The 40-minute segment hinges on a few key points, like how African psychology isn’t about studying the mind, but studying the spirit. How the words “know thyself” mean more than just knowing who you are, but essentially, where you stand in the universe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And one idea that sticks with me, given what we’re all experiencing—even though Seals recorded this episode almost a year ago—is that a key component of optimal living is developing your own worldview, and not just adhering to others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to develop that view, to truly know yourself and study your spirit, you need to spend some time alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13876915\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13876915\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/IMG_9291-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Social Distance\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/IMG_9291-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/IMG_9291-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/IMG_9291-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/IMG_9291-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/IMG_9291-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Social Distance. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>‘m one of those people who work a lot but never work on themselves. That’s evidenced by the fact my hands are seemingly permanently hard and ashy (and that was before the exuberant amount of hand-washing of late). Definitely not bragging. Just showing y’all: I don’t take time to take care of myself, I’m too busy trying to keep pace in this everlasting rat race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s not even real. You see the headlines this week? The government can pull money out of the wazoo when they deem it necessary. Meanwhile, folks are out here working seven days a week—punching a clock until they punch their ticket. And that’s the purpose of life?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ve gotta be kidding me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The way we’re living isn’t sustainable. This virus aside, we’re all battling illnesses. How could we not be? You think it’s possible to be fully healthy in this sick world?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t think simply staying at home and putting a lil’ soap on our palms will restore balance to the universe. 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As people gathered along the eastern shore of the 150-year-old man-made jewel of a lagoon to snap shots on their phones, I had no idea it’d be the last gathering I attended before the great social distancing of 2020 started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, I’ve been on my couch, lost. I can’t even tell you which way the sky is. So many questions: How can the government expect us to listen after lying to us for so long? How can they ask us to shelter in place without making testing available? 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Take your time and wash your hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A perfect opportunity to think about the purpose of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/iStock.Compass-800x561.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"561\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13877332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/iStock.Compass.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/iStock.Compass-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/iStock.Compass-768x539.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">F\u003c/span>or me, it starts with a lil’ bit of anxiety slipping into the red wine I drink at 3am. The witching hour is also when I clean the dishes, sweep the floors and simultaneously absorb the news from the day before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So many reports stick with me: The saga of \u003ca href=\"https://graphics.reuters.com/CHINA-HEALTH-SOUTHKOREA-CLUSTERS/0100B5G33SB/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Patient 31\u003c/a>—a close look at COVID-19 spread in South Korea. The nurses in Oakland who have to \u003ca href=\"https://theintercept.com/2020/03/21/oakland-coronavirus-hospital-kaiser/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reuse their masks and other medical gear\u003c/a>. The predictions of \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/12-million-americans-imperial-college-study_n_5e705085c5b6eab7793b5b49\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hundreds of thousands of deaths\u003c/a> that might occur around the world. The preventative measures taken by places like \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/inmates-die-prison-riots-coronavirus-rules-italy-200309125813658.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Santa Rita County Jail\u003c/a>, which recently released a couple hundred non-violent offenders. And the sobering truth that simply by their design, prisons will \u003ca href=\"https://theappeal.org/first-two-coronavirus-cases-confirmed-at-california-prisons/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">still be hit hard\u003c/a> by the coronvirus’ spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other night, I took a break from checking the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CDC’s site\u003c/a> to Google “Can you die from reading too much?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then I stepped away. It’s not fair to make myself sicker during this time. This is about preventing, and if possible, purging illnesses. I want to look back at this period and remember how I finally got my shit together, ya know? I don’t know about y’all, but I’ve got some pains and problems that aren’t big enough to stop me, but I feel ’em, daily. And I never really had the time to address ’em, until now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My problems?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being an overachiever, because being black and broke made me feel inferior. Being an overly focused father, because I fear following my pop’s path. Carrying inner misogyny, because my mindset was made in the USA. Being easily distracted, because I don’t always believe in myself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s more, but those are the ones that come to mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How do I address ’em? Do the heavy lift: pick up the phone and have the hard conversations. Wield a pen and write. Hold the hand mirror and reflect. Clutch a cup of some tea, lift a lighter to some candles and turn up some tunes from Miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don’t get me wrong, I’ve also katted off on Twitter and Instagram. Gigged to \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/dnice/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">D-Nice’s IG Live\u003c/a>, vibed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/djmujie/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DJ Mujie’s IG\u003c/a> feed and nodded as \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/drewwwbanga/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Drew Banga\u003c/a> made beats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve watched \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfwNU_g07hY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">marble racing\u003c/a>, the live cameras at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13877094/8-calming-livecams-of-kittens-penguins-jellyfish-and-more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Diego Zoo\u003c/a> and old athletic highlight reels (\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Etdoe_Dh3k0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pernell “Sweet Pea” Whitaker\u003c/a> was a defensive boxing beast).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I unfortunately found myself watching—this is embarrassing—\u003cem>America’s Funniest Home Videos\u003c/em>. But the mindless content is just a counterbalance for the heavier lifting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take the third episode of professor Jason Seals’ podcast, \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-moment-of-truth/id1470178615?i=1000444533752\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>A Moment of Truth\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. It features a conversation with an assistant professor in SF State’s Department of Africana Studies, Dr. Ifetayo Flannery. The 40-minute segment hinges on a few key points, like how African psychology isn’t about studying the mind, but studying the spirit. How the words “know thyself” mean more than just knowing who you are, but essentially, where you stand in the universe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And one idea that sticks with me, given what we’re all experiencing—even though Seals recorded this episode almost a year ago—is that a key component of optimal living is developing your own worldview, and not just adhering to others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to develop that view, to truly know yourself and study your spirit, you need to spend some time alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13876915\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13876915\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/IMG_9291-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Social Distance\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/IMG_9291-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/IMG_9291-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/IMG_9291-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/IMG_9291-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/IMG_9291-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Social Distance. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>‘m one of those people who work a lot but never work on themselves. That’s evidenced by the fact my hands are seemingly permanently hard and ashy (and that was before the exuberant amount of hand-washing of late). Definitely not bragging. Just showing y’all: I don’t take time to take care of myself, I’m too busy trying to keep pace in this everlasting rat race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s not even real. You see the headlines this week? The government can pull money out of the wazoo when they deem it necessary. Meanwhile, folks are out here working seven days a week—punching a clock until they punch their ticket. And that’s the purpose of life?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ve gotta be kidding me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The way we’re living isn’t sustainable. This virus aside, we’re all battling illnesses. How could we not be? You think it’s possible to be fully healthy in this sick world?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t think simply staying at home and putting a lil’ soap on our palms will restore balance to the universe. But I do think there’s an opportunity to get to the layer that allows us to address some underlying issues. The ones we’ve been carrying since forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m here for the video games and the virtual happy hours. And after that, at 3am, I’ll be pouring some wine—hopefully with a little less anxiety, and a little more clarity on how to use this time for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Two weeks ago, I wasn’t worried about the coronavirus. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two weeks ago, I was at a play. Where, in the middle of it, the woman sitting next to me started loudly chastising the person behind her for coughing. \u003cem>You gotta be kidding me\u003c/em>, I thought. \u003cem>Is this some sort of a joke?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two weeks later, this is no joke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week at a different play, I counted swaths of empty seats throughout the theater. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watching the play—\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/theater/toni-stone-baseball.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Toni Stone\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, about the first woman to play big-league professional baseball in America—was a transcendent experience. It delivered those of us who saw it from the world’s news for three hours, pulling us into a story that made us laugh, made us cry, and brought hundreds of people together in a communal experience. \u003cem>What a salve for the world right now\u003c/em>, I thought on my way home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was opening night. The play closed the next morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13876632\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/TSN_011-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Dawn Ursula in ‘Toni Stone,’ a play at A.C.T.’s Geary Theater about the first woman to play professional baseball. The play closed the morning after opening night due to the coronavirus.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13876632\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/TSN_011-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/TSN_011-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/TSN_011-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/TSN_011-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/TSN_011.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dawn Ursula in ‘Toni Stone,’ a play at A.C.T.’s Geary Theater about the first woman to play professional baseball. The play closed the morning after opening night due to the coronavirus. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne/ACT)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just about everything else closed that morning, too, if it hadn’t already. One thing is clear now. Our civic life has ground to a halt. As part of my job, I’ve been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13876160/canceled-by-coronavirus-a-list-of-bay-area-concerts-cultural-events-museums-more\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">updating a list of closures, cancellations and postponements of concerts, plays, museums, and events\u003c/a> for six days straight. And at this point, I can say this with authority: Everything is canceled. Like, everything. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, that means all concerts at the Chase Center, Fox Theater, Fillmore, Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, and the Oakland Arena. It means musicals like \u003cem>Hamilton\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Harry Potter and the Cursed Child\u003c/em>. It means museums like SFMOMA, the de Young, the Legion of Honor and the Asian Art Museum. It means Warriors games, Giants games, A’s games. It means institutions like the Exploratorium, City Arts & Lectures, SFJAZZ, the San Francisco Symphony and the Commonwealth Club.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Human connection, especially in times like these, is very, very important.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The outlook grows even more bleak when you look nationwide, and add essentially all professional sports, Coachella, most schools, South by Southwest, all \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/arts/music/coachella-concerts-coronavirus.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">live music tours presented by the country’s two largest promoters\u003c/a>, and the entirety of Broadway. Even Disneyland is closed. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How can we get by when the arts, so much a part of civic life, are shut down? In ways that are unlike any other aspect of life, the arts foster human connection. And human connection, especially in times like these, is very, very important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without it, stuck in our hovels apart from each other, rarely seeing each other face to face, it’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30460-8/fulltext\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">much easier\u003c/a> to fall into anxiety and worry. I know. It’s started to happen to me. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13875368\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/MichaelTilsonThomasConducti-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony,\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13875368\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/MichaelTilsonThomasConducti-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/MichaelTilsonThomasConducti-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/MichaelTilsonThomasConducti-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/MichaelTilsonThomasConducti-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/MichaelTilsonThomasConducti.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony. All of the orchestra’s performances through March are canceled due to the coronavirus. \u003ccite>(Kristen Loken)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And there’s plenty to be worried about. President Trump’s speech on Wednesday night, meant to calm the country, did the opposite. Peppered as it was with \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/a-president-unequal-to-the-moment\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">deflections, denials and misinformation\u003c/a>, corrections needed to be issued immediately afterward by his own staff. The next day, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/dow-plunges-10-and-marks-worst-worst-day-since-the-1987-crash-as-coronavirus-crushes-wall-streets-buying-sentiment-2020-03-12\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">stock market fell by 10%\u003c/a>—its worst day since 1987. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, out of major countries, the U.S. is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/3/12/21175034/coronavirus-covid-19-testing-usa\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">least-tested nation per capita in the world\u003c/a> for the coronavirus. We’ve been told insurance companies will \u003ca href=\"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/pence-americans-wont-get-surprise-medical-bills-for-coronavirus-tests-2020-03-10\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">waive copays\u003c/a> for tests, which is nice if you have insurance, or \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/11/814189027/no-guarantee-youll-get-tested-for-covid-19-even-if-your-doctor-requests-it\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">if you can actually find any tests\u003c/a>. People with symptoms of coronavirus are on hold with medical providers for hours, given the runaround from agency to agency and back again. You may have even seen that some \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/content-guest/article/notes-from-ucsf-expert-panel-march-10-dr-jordan-shlain-m-d-/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">experts reportedly predict\u003c/a> that 40%-70% of the country’s population will eventually be infected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Tom Hanks. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13876500/tom-hanks-wife-rita-wilson-test-positive-for-coronavirus\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Tom Hanks\u003c/em> has the coronavirus\u003c/a>. It’s as if God chose the most beloved celebrity in the country to make a point to us all about how serious this is. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a lot. Take a breath. Deeply. (And now take another.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13876502\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/Hanks.Coronavirus-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson at the Oscars in February. The couple, who are in Australia where Hanks is preparing for a film shoot, announced Thursday they have tested positive for the coronavirus.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13876502\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/Hanks.Coronavirus-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/Hanks.Coronavirus-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/Hanks.Coronavirus-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/Hanks.Coronavirus-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/Hanks.Coronavirus.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson at the Oscars in February. The couple, who are in Australia where Hanks is preparing for a film shoot, announced Thursday they have tested positive for the coronavirus. \u003ccite>(Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With so many of us working from home, self-quarantining, staying inside, talking to each other with garbled audio quality over 2-inch screens, it’s all too easy to get sucked into doomsday thinking. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My first tip is to take breaks to find your joy, whatever that may be. Bake bread. Finish that embroidery project. Go surfing. Blast Neurosis’ \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mVfRtEMcXlL6RIb56dxSaInKfw4MLxtSI\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Pain of Mind\u003c/a>\u003c/em> album. Work on your bike. Plant an early garden. Transcribe the complete lyrics to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awMIbA34MT8\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Int’l Players Anthem\u003c/a>.” Go downtown in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwWV4JelEzY\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">inflatable dinosaur costume\u003c/a>. Whatever offers you a respite from the news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then, make sure you connect with people by any way besides screens. Call people and talk to them. Send a letter in the mail. Record yourself singing and send it to friend. Instead of giving more money to Apple or Amazon, get movies and music from the library, or a video rental store, if one still exists in your city. Go to a record store instead of streaming music. Go to a newsstand and buy a paper (or better yet, \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanpressinstitute.org/publications/reports/survey-research/paying-for-news/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">subscribe\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talk to the workers. Talk to waitstaff. Tip well. If you can’t get out to a restaurant, \u003ca href=\"https://lifehacker.com/support-your-local-businesses-by-buying-gift-cards-to-u-1842310796\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">buy gift certificates\u003c/a> for restaurants and other local businesses feeling the brunt, and use them later. Send a message out of the blue to a coworker you rarely talk to and tell them something positive about their work. Call retirement homes, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/coronavirus-nursing-homes-washington-seattle.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">now the sites of loneliness and isolation\u003c/a>, and ask what you can do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13876469\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/RS41968_Jordan-Battle-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13876469\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/RS41968_Jordan-Battle-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/RS41968_Jordan-Battle-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/RS41968_Jordan-Battle-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/RS41968_Jordan-Battle-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/RS41968_Jordan-Battle-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jordan Battle cleans surfaces in the lobby at Z Space in San Francisco. Like most theaters in the Bay Area, Z Space has gone dark due to the coronavirus. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for the arts, if you have tickets to a show that’s canceled, and can afford it, don’t file for a refund. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/nananastia/status/1238498366448795650\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Donate\u003c/a> the ticket money to the artist or the theater, which is going to need it to get through this lull. The people who depend on that work—artists, stagehands, sound engineers, musicians, caterers, ushers, the list goes on and on—have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13876314/coronavirus-cancelations-threaten-livelihoods-of-independent-artists\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">no income source\u003c/a> for the foreseeable future. If you have the opportunity to pay for the many livestreamed performances that are popping up, do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of these suggestions are tributaries of the same thematic river—the belief that deep down, we care about each other, even if we do not know each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nobody can truly predict how bad this will get, or how long our lives will be upended. But looking at recent history—especially with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13814248/one-month-later\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">wildfires in my hometown\u003c/a>—I’ve seen this belief play out time and time again. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Two weeks ago, I wasn’t worried about the coronavirus. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two weeks ago, I was at a play. Where, in the middle of it, the woman sitting next to me started loudly chastising the person behind her for coughing. \u003cem>You gotta be kidding me\u003c/em>, I thought. \u003cem>Is this some sort of a joke?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two weeks later, this is no joke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week at a different play, I counted swaths of empty seats throughout the theater. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watching the play—\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/theater/toni-stone-baseball.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Toni Stone\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, about the first woman to play big-league professional baseball in America—was a transcendent experience. It delivered those of us who saw it from the world’s news for three hours, pulling us into a story that made us laugh, made us cry, and brought hundreds of people together in a communal experience. \u003cem>What a salve for the world right now\u003c/em>, I thought on my way home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was opening night. The play closed the next morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13876632\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/TSN_011-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Dawn Ursula in ‘Toni Stone,’ a play at A.C.T.’s Geary Theater about the first woman to play professional baseball. The play closed the morning after opening night due to the coronavirus.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13876632\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/TSN_011-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/TSN_011-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/TSN_011-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/TSN_011-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/TSN_011.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dawn Ursula in ‘Toni Stone,’ a play at A.C.T.’s Geary Theater about the first woman to play professional baseball. The play closed the morning after opening night due to the coronavirus. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne/ACT)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just about everything else closed that morning, too, if it hadn’t already. One thing is clear now. Our civic life has ground to a halt. As part of my job, I’ve been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13876160/canceled-by-coronavirus-a-list-of-bay-area-concerts-cultural-events-museums-more\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">updating a list of closures, cancellations and postponements of concerts, plays, museums, and events\u003c/a> for six days straight. And at this point, I can say this with authority: Everything is canceled. Like, everything. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, that means all concerts at the Chase Center, Fox Theater, Fillmore, Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, and the Oakland Arena. It means musicals like \u003cem>Hamilton\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Harry Potter and the Cursed Child\u003c/em>. It means museums like SFMOMA, the de Young, the Legion of Honor and the Asian Art Museum. It means Warriors games, Giants games, A’s games. It means institutions like the Exploratorium, City Arts & Lectures, SFJAZZ, the San Francisco Symphony and the Commonwealth Club.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Human connection, especially in times like these, is very, very important.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The outlook grows even more bleak when you look nationwide, and add essentially all professional sports, Coachella, most schools, South by Southwest, all \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/arts/music/coachella-concerts-coronavirus.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">live music tours presented by the country’s two largest promoters\u003c/a>, and the entirety of Broadway. Even Disneyland is closed. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How can we get by when the arts, so much a part of civic life, are shut down? In ways that are unlike any other aspect of life, the arts foster human connection. And human connection, especially in times like these, is very, very important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without it, stuck in our hovels apart from each other, rarely seeing each other face to face, it’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30460-8/fulltext\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">much easier\u003c/a> to fall into anxiety and worry. I know. It’s started to happen to me. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13875368\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/MichaelTilsonThomasConducti-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony,\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13875368\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/MichaelTilsonThomasConducti-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/MichaelTilsonThomasConducti-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/MichaelTilsonThomasConducti-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/MichaelTilsonThomasConducti-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/MichaelTilsonThomasConducti.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony. All of the orchestra’s performances through March are canceled due to the coronavirus. \u003ccite>(Kristen Loken)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And there’s plenty to be worried about. President Trump’s speech on Wednesday night, meant to calm the country, did the opposite. Peppered as it was with \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/a-president-unequal-to-the-moment\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">deflections, denials and misinformation\u003c/a>, corrections needed to be issued immediately afterward by his own staff. The next day, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/dow-plunges-10-and-marks-worst-worst-day-since-the-1987-crash-as-coronavirus-crushes-wall-streets-buying-sentiment-2020-03-12\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">stock market fell by 10%\u003c/a>—its worst day since 1987. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, out of major countries, the U.S. is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/3/12/21175034/coronavirus-covid-19-testing-usa\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">least-tested nation per capita in the world\u003c/a> for the coronavirus. We’ve been told insurance companies will \u003ca href=\"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/pence-americans-wont-get-surprise-medical-bills-for-coronavirus-tests-2020-03-10\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">waive copays\u003c/a> for tests, which is nice if you have insurance, or \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/11/814189027/no-guarantee-youll-get-tested-for-covid-19-even-if-your-doctor-requests-it\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">if you can actually find any tests\u003c/a>. People with symptoms of coronavirus are on hold with medical providers for hours, given the runaround from agency to agency and back again. You may have even seen that some \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/content-guest/article/notes-from-ucsf-expert-panel-march-10-dr-jordan-shlain-m-d-/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">experts reportedly predict\u003c/a> that 40%-70% of the country’s population will eventually be infected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Tom Hanks. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13876500/tom-hanks-wife-rita-wilson-test-positive-for-coronavirus\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Tom Hanks\u003c/em> has the coronavirus\u003c/a>. It’s as if God chose the most beloved celebrity in the country to make a point to us all about how serious this is. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a lot. Take a breath. Deeply. (And now take another.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13876502\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/Hanks.Coronavirus-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson at the Oscars in February. The couple, who are in Australia where Hanks is preparing for a film shoot, announced Thursday they have tested positive for the coronavirus.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13876502\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/Hanks.Coronavirus-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/Hanks.Coronavirus-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/Hanks.Coronavirus-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/Hanks.Coronavirus-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/Hanks.Coronavirus.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson at the Oscars in February. The couple, who are in Australia where Hanks is preparing for a film shoot, announced Thursday they have tested positive for the coronavirus. \u003ccite>(Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With so many of us working from home, self-quarantining, staying inside, talking to each other with garbled audio quality over 2-inch screens, it’s all too easy to get sucked into doomsday thinking. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My first tip is to take breaks to find your joy, whatever that may be. Bake bread. Finish that embroidery project. Go surfing. Blast Neurosis’ \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mVfRtEMcXlL6RIb56dxSaInKfw4MLxtSI\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Pain of Mind\u003c/a>\u003c/em> album. Work on your bike. Plant an early garden. Transcribe the complete lyrics to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awMIbA34MT8\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Int’l Players Anthem\u003c/a>.” Go downtown in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwWV4JelEzY\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">inflatable dinosaur costume\u003c/a>. Whatever offers you a respite from the news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then, make sure you connect with people by any way besides screens. Call people and talk to them. Send a letter in the mail. Record yourself singing and send it to friend. Instead of giving more money to Apple or Amazon, get movies and music from the library, or a video rental store, if one still exists in your city. Go to a record store instead of streaming music. Go to a newsstand and buy a paper (or better yet, \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanpressinstitute.org/publications/reports/survey-research/paying-for-news/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">subscribe\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talk to the workers. Talk to waitstaff. Tip well. If you can’t get out to a restaurant, \u003ca href=\"https://lifehacker.com/support-your-local-businesses-by-buying-gift-cards-to-u-1842310796\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">buy gift certificates\u003c/a> for restaurants and other local businesses feeling the brunt, and use them later. Send a message out of the blue to a coworker you rarely talk to and tell them something positive about their work. Call retirement homes, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/coronavirus-nursing-homes-washington-seattle.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">now the sites of loneliness and isolation\u003c/a>, and ask what you can do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13876469\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/RS41968_Jordan-Battle-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13876469\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/RS41968_Jordan-Battle-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/RS41968_Jordan-Battle-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/RS41968_Jordan-Battle-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/RS41968_Jordan-Battle-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/RS41968_Jordan-Battle-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jordan Battle cleans surfaces in the lobby at Z Space in San Francisco. Like most theaters in the Bay Area, Z Space has gone dark due to the coronavirus. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for the arts, if you have tickets to a show that’s canceled, and can afford it, don’t file for a refund. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/nananastia/status/1238498366448795650\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Donate\u003c/a> the ticket money to the artist or the theater, which is going to need it to get through this lull. The people who depend on that work—artists, stagehands, sound engineers, musicians, caterers, ushers, the list goes on and on—have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13876314/coronavirus-cancelations-threaten-livelihoods-of-independent-artists\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">no income source\u003c/a> for the foreseeable future. If you have the opportunity to pay for the many livestreamed performances that are popping up, do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of these suggestions are tributaries of the same thematic river—the belief that deep down, we care about each other, even if we do not know each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nobody can truly predict how bad this will get, or how long our lives will be upended. But looking at recent history—especially with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13814248/one-month-later\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">wildfires in my hometown\u003c/a>—I’ve seen this belief play out time and time again. People want to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until the curtain rises again, we are still in this together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Is your community affected by the coronavirus? Let us know below.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>This week, Russian prank callers, Vovan and Lexus, released secretly recorded audio of two conversations they had with Prince Harry while they posed as climate activist Greta Thunberg and her father, Svante.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though no official confirmation that it’s the prince has come from either the Sussex household or Buckingham Palace, not only does the voice on the tape sound an awful lot like Mr. Meghan Markle, but \u003cem>ET Canada\u003c/em> is reporting they’ve \u003ca href=\"https://etcanada.com/news/606364/sources-confirm-prince-harry-was-tricked-by-russian-pranksters-pretending-to-be-greta-thunberg-talks-leaving-the-royals-donald-trump-more/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">received confirmation\u003c/a> of the prankee’s identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov specialize in trying to catch people off guard and off brand. As such, their targets are usually politicians (Bernie Sanders, Maxine Waters and Lindsey Graham have all been duped), but they do sometimes veer into the world of celebrity. (In 2015, the duo called Elton John, posing as Vladimir Putin.) With that in mind, it was probably only a matter of time before a royal was on the receiving end of one of these calls. [aside postid='arts_13873680']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listening to the content of the just-released audio, and assuming we’ve IDed the prince correctly, it’s difficult to imagine Harry regretting anything he says. For a start, the comments he makes about his and Meghan Markle’s decision \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13873680/harry-and-meghan-look-super-happy-despite-the-queens-harsh-megxit-terms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to step away\u003c/a> from their roles as senior royals are nothing but endearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“I can assure you, marrying a prince or princess is not all it’s made out to be… This decision certainly wasn’t the easy one but it was the right decision for our family, the right decision to be able to protect my son. And I think there’s a hell of a lot of people around the world that can identify and respect us for putting our family first.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In addition, when he does get onto the subject of climate change, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg6N0DnDm-I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harry speaks\u003c/a> authoritatively and passionately, coming across as a profoundly empathetic person who is desperate to see policy change enacted to protect future generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“It’s not an easy time, and the world is in a troubled place, and unfortunately the world is being led by some very sick people who stop any change from happening, whether that’s because of their own bias [or] whether that’s because of the fact that it will change how they are able to behave themselves… We have to almost physically shake these people to get them to realize that not only are they stealing from your future… but also that they are directly responsible for actually killing people and wiping out whole communities.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13872986'] Harry has never been (and probably never \u003cem>will\u003c/em> be) permitted to speak like this in any public, official capacity—even post-Megxit. But given his well-established \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13872986/prince-harrys-rejection-of-the-royal-lifestyle-is-only-his-latest-rebellious-move\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rebellious streak\u003c/a>, one has to wonder if the leaking of these \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13872986/prince-harrys-rejection-of-the-royal-lifestyle-is-only-his-latest-rebellious-move\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">real-life personal views\u003c/a> might be a breath of fresh air for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also must come as a bit of a relief to finally let the public know where he stands when it comes to his uncle. When asked about Prince Andrew—who is currently neck-deep in \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Roberts_Giuffre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">allegations\u003c/a> of sexual exploitation related to his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein—Harry does not mince words. Not only does he make zero attempt to defend Andrew, he also gets in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg6N0DnDm-I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a dig\u003c/a> at the relatives he perceives as more concerned about protecting their ranks than looking out for the welfare of the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Whatever [Andrew] has done or hasn’t done, is completely separate from me and my wife. We operate in a way of inclusivity and we are focusing on community. And so we are completely separate from the majority of my family.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The most controversial part of the recording concerns Donald Trump and the current administration’s energy policies. Whether you find \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg6N0DnDm-I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harry’s comments\u003c/a> about Trump atrocious or a triumph will depend entirely on your political leanings, but either way, one gets the sense that Harry enjoyed getting this off his chest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“I think the mere fact that Donald Trump is pushing the coal industry so big in America, he has blood on his hands. Because the effect that that has on island nations far, far away… Again, out of sight, out of mind. We’ve visited those places and I’m sure you have as well and people’s lives have been completely destroyed. People are dying every single month by some form of natural disaster that has been created from this huge change in our climate.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Regardless of the controversy that is now swirling around the prince, Harry’s conversation certainly pales in comparison with what his parents, Diana and Prince Charles were previously caught saying over the phone in secret recordings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squidgygate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a conversation\u003c/a> between Diana and her friend James Gilbey that leaked in 1992, Gilbey affectionately called her “Squidgy” or “Squidge” no less than 53 times, and the Princess said of her then-husband: “He makes my life real torture.” A \u003ca href=\"https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/how-camillagate-tapes-exposed-secret-10958350\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1989 conversation\u003c/a> Charles had with his then-mistress Camilla Parker Bowles was even worse, causing such a furor when it leaked years after the fact that it has taken the prince decades to recover. (During the call, Charles memorably told Camilla: “I’ll just live inside your trousers or something. It would be much easier!”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As demonstrated by Harry and Meghan’s recent move to Canada, this is not a couple interested in being trapped within the bounds of British royal protocol. And for Harry, adhering to those standards of public decorum and political neutrality for his entire life must have been inordinately stifling. Harry himself indicates during the recording that he is looking forward to having a louder, more honest voice moving forward. 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"content": "\u003cp>Yesterday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/03/11/san-francisco-coronavirus/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Washington Post\u003c/em> declared\u003c/a> that the Bay Area is working remotely more than “anywhere else in the nation” right now, thanks to our “being ahead of the curve on technology.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh, and, you know, that whole pesky coronavirus thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether or not Silicon Valley has really “slowed to a crawl” (as the newspaper says), it is certainly true that, over the last few days, the coronavirus has quickly transformed from that thing we were kinda sorta washing our hands a little bit extra over, to a full-blown work-from-home quarantine necessity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, for all the white collar workers that have that luxury, anyway…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/jlottidaa/status/1237498493628870656\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/amything_goes/status/1237539963006156801\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As is to be expected in America in 2020, Twitter definitely had some thoughts, feelings and advice about this new WFH normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everything from surviving without a steady supply of work-based toiletries:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/daisy_wyatt/status/1236934622287724545\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To trying to figure out which is worse—the chaotic hellscape that is conference calling…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ikasliwal/status/1237155837639938048\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/BoobsRadley/status/1237486231992160256\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/runasand/status/1237721356818661377\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(With its inherent potential for wardrobe malfunctions…)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/drapedinhistory/status/1237768312555257857\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or the isolation of working all alone, and the mental perils that accompany that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/tara_mulholland/status/1234750412801986561\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many noted how essential it is to keep your work space a very safe distance from both the bed and television:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/hapticurbanism/status/1237533310735093760\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if watching Whoopi Goldberg shout this at an empty \u003cem>The View\u003c/em> studio\u003cem> is\u003c/em> ridiculously entertaining:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/joeynolfi/status/1237756702663102465\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also important to consider what, if anything, this is going to do to your relationships with your neighbors:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MattBellassai/status/1237760813575872518\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Couples working at home together for the first time may, in addition, wish to heed these warnings:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/TatianaLivesey/status/1237678873036427264\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SohailLionKing/status/1237653803341680642\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are, however, silver linings. Pets will believe you love them more:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/arb/status/1237738931107409923\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Una/status/1237838359323533318\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uninterrupted days might prompt big ideas:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/TimCosmos/status/1237679902603841536\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you find yourself feeling lonely, just go and listen to the songs of \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/WhatTheHeckert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michelle Heckert\u003c/a>. The ukulele-loving singer was trapped out in the Bay aboard the Grand Princess cruise ship for nearly a week, and is now stuck in \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/quarantine?src=hashtag_click\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">quarantine\u003c/a> with her elderly grandparents on land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, Heckert has written four songs about her ordeal, but the first one—which includes a refrain about being “scared as shit”—is the best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/WhatTheHeckert/status/1236087442635026434\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hang in there, everybody.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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And after two and a half weeks away from campus, it’s where students are scheduled to return to next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to TCE, the school is surrounded by a horseshoe-shaped freeway structure, thousands of shipping trucks and underground storage tanks– a number of them have resulted in documented leaks. That’s because West Oakland was an industrial bastion for the greater part of the 20th century. Numerous factories, plants and warehouses have sullied its soil. (The city’s only known EPA Superfund Site—a cleanup priority for the EPA— is \u003ca href=\"https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0905334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AMCO Chemical\u003c/a> in West Oakland.) \u003ca href=\"http://acphd.org/media/496252/air-pollution-health-impacts-west-oakland-acphd-2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">It’s home\u003c/a> to Alameda County’s highest levels of asthma and lowest life expectancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And who lives in West Oakland? During the decades of rampant redlining, it was one of the few places in the Bay Area African Americans could freely move into. That’s why McClymonds, historically, is a predominantly African American school. It’s also known for its legendary alums (Bill Russell and Frank Robinson, to name a few) and honored for its football team recently winning the state championship \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/McClymonds-is-a-state-football-champion-for-3rd-13469769.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">three times in a row\u003c/a>. It’s a pillar of the community, and even with the changing demographics in the neighborhood due to gentrification, the school’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.publicschoolreview.com/mcclymonds-high-school-profile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported population\u003c/a> of 372 students is still 80% African American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the coverage of McClymonds’ closure has centered on input from adults: elected officials, parents and school administrators. But what’s it like to be a student, in a literally toxic environment? I wanted to find out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13876186\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13876186\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Shoes and Shakur. Some of the items inside of the Restorative Justice Circle. \" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shoes and Shakur. Some of the items inside of the Restorative Justice Circle. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>nside the staff room at Ralph J. Bunche Academy in West Oakland, Saba Ghebreyesus (or Ms. Saba as the students call her), director of the youth-led multimedia platform \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/direct/t/340282366841710300949128149233437389874\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IceeHouse\u003c/a>, stood at the dry-erase board writing the agreements for a restorative justice circle. A few minutes later, a handful of students from McClymonds trickled in, followed by a teacher, Mr. Taylor (not to be confused with the McClymonds principal, Jeffrey Taylor, who was also present, as well as Oakland Unified School District Administrator Vanessa Sifuentes-Dimaano).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal of the circle at Bunche, where McClymonds students were temporarily relocated, was to give young folks an opportunity to discuss how they’re processing the news that a potentially harmful chemical was discovered under their school just weeks ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The door closed and the students sat in a circle around a few items: an old sidekick two-way, a brick cellphone, the \u003cem>Tupac Shakur Legacy\u003c/em> book by Jamal Joseph, and the talking piece: a miniature statue of people in a rowboat. After some warm-up questions, Ms. Saba asked, “What was running through your mind and what were you feeling when you first heard a hazardous chemical was found at McClymonds?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be honest, I just kinda seen it as no school for us last week,” said a ninth grader named Christopher as he let out a slight laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miles, a 10th grader, brought up Ramone Sanders, a McClymonds alumnus who was diagnosed with cancer at 19 years old in 2019. “It was kind of like, wow, that could have really been responsible for his death,” he said. “And they could shut down the whole school because of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13876187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13876187\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Dwayne, a senior at McClymonds stands in the hallway at Ralph J. Bunche Academy in West Oakland\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dwayne, a senior at McClymonds stands in the hallway at Ralph J. Bunche Academy in West Oakland \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other students brought up concerns about how missing class could impact their academic success. “Was that going to affect my credits? Was that going to affect my graduation?” asked a 12th grader named Neyionna. “The TCE, how long has it really been there?… I’m just saying, Mack just needs to be rebuilt, I think, because where Mack is, is an industrial area: the factories, the gas stations… And it’s all black [people], so yeah, I think that’s kinda racist,” she concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A senior named Dwayne pointed out that news of contamination affected his and other students’ mental health. “I have something called generalized anxiety disorder. It gets triggered by events like this,” he said. “I’m a hypochondriac as well. So, I was like, ‘I definitely have cancer.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He shared that he’s angry and confused, and that his trust in the adults in charge has been shaken. “If McClymonds were to burn down that day, what would be the plan OUSD would implement for all of this?” he asked. “Is there a plan in place for a natural disaster? It just seems like it took a little too long for us to have a plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashely, another senior, said, “It’s really stressful … It’s like: Oh, my god, again? We have ANOTHER issue at McClymonds? It’s just irritating, I don’t want to go through it.” She said moving campuses, dealing with this and ‘senior-itis’ is a lot. “I just want to give up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My initial reaction was to do my research so I don’t make any wrong assumptions about what’s going on,” said Themba, a senior who wants to go to college to become a chemical engineer. “Let me figure out what’s going on, what’s TCE; I don’t want to just hear ‘it’s cancer.’ Let me figure out what it does, what’s the chemical?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his knack for information gathering, Themba said he didn’t attend any of the community meetings held after the discovery of the chemical “because I knew it was going to be hectic, I knew it was going loud,” he said, adding that he questioned people’s intentions: “Who are you really fighting for? Where do you stand? … Are you really here for the kids who want to learn?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ms. Saba received the talking piece from Themba and said, “This is not just about McClymonds, this is about something bigger than McClymonds. This is about years of environmental waste that’s impacting a specific community, when I say years, I’m talking about 30 to 40 years of history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(\u003cem>Longer even\u003c/em>, I thought to myself.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13876189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13876189\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8531-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Christopher and the talking piece, Seraiah sitting behind him\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8531-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8531-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8531-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8531-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8531.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christopher and the talking piece, Seraiah sitting behind him \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Suddenly, a noise outside the door interrupted the discussion. \u003cem>I’m about to slap these little girls in the face, so somebody better go get them right now\u003c/em>, said an adult’s voice from the hallway. \u003cem>Where is the principal? … I’m not dealing with this anymore. I done had every emotion this week, and they want to come in here being disrespectful…\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clearly, tensions were high, and even the adults were on edge. Our circle sat quietly as the voice outside passed by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Principal Taylor briefly stepped out to address the noise, while Ms. Saba broke the silence. “I don’t want ya’ll to get distracted, I want ya’ll to focus on what ya’ll want to share and what’s important to ya’ll. We have one more question before we close out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She instructed everyone to take a deep breath. “What do you think needs to be done to make things as right as possible? And what do you need? What do you personally need from your principal and from yourself and from your peers?” asked Ms. Saba.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Principal Taylor held the talking piece and said, “From everybody, we need a little compassion and a little understanding. Everybody’s anxiety levels are already past ten… The students, I need them to understand that, it’s not their fault, and it’s not our fault.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Principal Taylor then somberly brought up \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/07/06/funeral-services-set-for-mcclymonds-football-standout-darryl-aikens/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Darryl Aikens\u003c/a>, who was one of his students and who died of leukemia in 2017. “Everybody keeps using him as an excuse, you know, ‘He caught cancer from the school,’” Principal Taylor said in air-quotes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t even know his mom. Don’t know his family. And they keep putting him out there, and it’s making his mother sick. His grandmother sick… I just want it to stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanessa from OUSD’s central office took the talking piece, and noted that “compassion and empathy” are required on all fronts; she concluded by asking that the students, “Continue to be that voice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13876192\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13876192\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8541-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Miles talks while Principal Taylor sits in the background\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8541-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8541-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8541-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8541-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8541.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miles talks while Principal Taylor sits in the background. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">M\u003c/span>iles, designer scarf around his forehead and a big jacket, took the talking piece and brought the discussion to another form of toxicity that exists at many schools, not just McClymonds. “What I need from the staff is for them to show that they actually care,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He noted that some faculty members bring their own issues with them to the classroom, and leave it to the students to educate themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re supposed to be teaching us, we’re not adults yet. I’m only in the 10th grade,” said Miles. “They’re looking at us like we’re 35. Like we’re supposed to be teaching them. They’ve gotta teach us.” He was met with at least one person’s supportive applause when he made that point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The talking piece landed back in Ms. Saba’s hands. She closed the circle by thanking all the participants and ended by sharing a quote from Margaret Mead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world,” she recited. “Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>n a news cycle like ours, the closure of McClymonds High School in West Oakland might seem overshadowed by national headlines about the Grand Princess cruise ship, which on Monday carried people with coronavirus to the Port of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the McClymonds story is important. It’s a site where trichloroethylene (TCE), a cancer-causing chemical, was found in the groundwater late last month. And after two and a half weeks away from campus, it’s where students are scheduled to return to next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to TCE, the school is surrounded by a horseshoe-shaped freeway structure, thousands of shipping trucks and underground storage tanks– a number of them have resulted in documented leaks. That’s because West Oakland was an industrial bastion for the greater part of the 20th century. Numerous factories, plants and warehouses have sullied its soil. (The city’s only known EPA Superfund Site—a cleanup priority for the EPA— is \u003ca href=\"https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0905334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AMCO Chemical\u003c/a> in West Oakland.) \u003ca href=\"http://acphd.org/media/496252/air-pollution-health-impacts-west-oakland-acphd-2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">It’s home\u003c/a> to Alameda County’s highest levels of asthma and lowest life expectancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And who lives in West Oakland? During the decades of rampant redlining, it was one of the few places in the Bay Area African Americans could freely move into. That’s why McClymonds, historically, is a predominantly African American school. It’s also known for its legendary alums (Bill Russell and Frank Robinson, to name a few) and honored for its football team recently winning the state championship \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/McClymonds-is-a-state-football-champion-for-3rd-13469769.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">three times in a row\u003c/a>. It’s a pillar of the community, and even with the changing demographics in the neighborhood due to gentrification, the school’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.publicschoolreview.com/mcclymonds-high-school-profile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported population\u003c/a> of 372 students is still 80% African American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the coverage of McClymonds’ closure has centered on input from adults: elected officials, parents and school administrators. But what’s it like to be a student, in a literally toxic environment? I wanted to find out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13876186\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13876186\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Shoes and Shakur. Some of the items inside of the Restorative Justice Circle. \" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shoes and Shakur. Some of the items inside of the Restorative Justice Circle. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>nside the staff room at Ralph J. Bunche Academy in West Oakland, Saba Ghebreyesus (or Ms. Saba as the students call her), director of the youth-led multimedia platform \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/direct/t/340282366841710300949128149233437389874\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IceeHouse\u003c/a>, stood at the dry-erase board writing the agreements for a restorative justice circle. A few minutes later, a handful of students from McClymonds trickled in, followed by a teacher, Mr. Taylor (not to be confused with the McClymonds principal, Jeffrey Taylor, who was also present, as well as Oakland Unified School District Administrator Vanessa Sifuentes-Dimaano).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal of the circle at Bunche, where McClymonds students were temporarily relocated, was to give young folks an opportunity to discuss how they’re processing the news that a potentially harmful chemical was discovered under their school just weeks ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The door closed and the students sat in a circle around a few items: an old sidekick two-way, a brick cellphone, the \u003cem>Tupac Shakur Legacy\u003c/em> book by Jamal Joseph, and the talking piece: a miniature statue of people in a rowboat. After some warm-up questions, Ms. Saba asked, “What was running through your mind and what were you feeling when you first heard a hazardous chemical was found at McClymonds?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be honest, I just kinda seen it as no school for us last week,” said a ninth grader named Christopher as he let out a slight laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miles, a 10th grader, brought up Ramone Sanders, a McClymonds alumnus who was diagnosed with cancer at 19 years old in 2019. “It was kind of like, wow, that could have really been responsible for his death,” he said. “And they could shut down the whole school because of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13876187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13876187\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Dwayne, a senior at McClymonds stands in the hallway at Ralph J. Bunche Academy in West Oakland\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dwayne, a senior at McClymonds stands in the hallway at Ralph J. Bunche Academy in West Oakland \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other students brought up concerns about how missing class could impact their academic success. “Was that going to affect my credits? Was that going to affect my graduation?” asked a 12th grader named Neyionna. “The TCE, how long has it really been there?… I’m just saying, Mack just needs to be rebuilt, I think, because where Mack is, is an industrial area: the factories, the gas stations… And it’s all black [people], so yeah, I think that’s kinda racist,” she concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A senior named Dwayne pointed out that news of contamination affected his and other students’ mental health. “I have something called generalized anxiety disorder. It gets triggered by events like this,” he said. “I’m a hypochondriac as well. So, I was like, ‘I definitely have cancer.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He shared that he’s angry and confused, and that his trust in the adults in charge has been shaken. “If McClymonds were to burn down that day, what would be the plan OUSD would implement for all of this?” he asked. “Is there a plan in place for a natural disaster? It just seems like it took a little too long for us to have a plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashely, another senior, said, “It’s really stressful … It’s like: Oh, my god, again? We have ANOTHER issue at McClymonds? 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