Guest columnist Janine Roberts: Gathering
The Leverett Library. STAFF FILE PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
Published: 2/23/2021 10:17:24 PM
I recently presented a Zoom workshop and “saw” colleagues, former students, community people. Afterwards I felt nostalgic and bereft. A face in a small square on a screen is not an in-person gaze into another’s eyes, or a touch on the arm; the warmth, in a hug, of another’s body.
We all miss gatherings of family, friends, neighbors, strangers rituals of eating together, giving toasts, opening presents and other hoopla. We’re mourning and celebrating in small pods or alone, without fluid access to the web of connections that hold and sustain us.
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