explorers & ADVENTURES
LILY, LIMERICKS,
& Lance Armstrong
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OVID-19 created an unusual time and unusual actions. When the global pandemic officially began and we were locked down for what we expected to be a few months, many of us reached inside our gut and told ourselves we would get through this time with a positive attitude and would do all those things we never had time for before. Were you one of those? Did you start a trivet with all the wine corks you tossed into that large bowl in your cupboard? Did you dutifully log your
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daily exercise to submit to the contest you and your friends created? Did you learn the intricacies of Zoom by realizing that your co-workers were looking at your nasal hair or your messy desk instead of your face? Did you dig into those dusty boxes, determined to purge, cleanse, and organize? Were you one of those unfortunate folks who contracted Covid and had to quarantine away from your family? But when those few months morphed into an unknown time warp, our resilient spirit began to wane. We discovered that homecooked meals had lost
Left: Lance Armstrong discovered a love for painting colorful rocks while quarantined with the COVID-19 virus. Middle: Pat Watson self-published a children’s book of limericks and worked with her brother to illustrate it. Below: One of Lily Westendorff’s watercolors.
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Creativity in the Time of Covid their appeal, that curbside pickup was no longer a treat, that waiting for a turn to speak on Zoom became a reminder of how much we missed spontaneous, disorganized conversation. So, once again, we had to go further, to reach beyond the familiar and stretch for the unknown. The irony of discovering our inner spirit during difficult moments is nothing new, nor is it a phenomenon to be dismissed as ordinary. Three residents of our community turned the ordinary, monotonous dreariness of COVID-19 isolation into extraordinary personal pursuits.
