Appreciating the Small Things By Ericka Foster Right around the time that the quarantine started, I started to wake up and notice silverfish on my living room ceiling. (I’m not going to include a photo them here, because …ew.) Silverfish are relatively harmless – they don’t scurry and multiply like ants and cockroaches. They don’t sting or bite like bed bugs or bees. In fact, they kind of sit there, so I have time to get my stepladder and a shoe while it remains in the same place. I’d wake up every morning, study the ceiling on my apartment, and murder it. In the scope of everything, it’s not a big deal. But…during this quarantine, as my life becomes small, the issue of these silverfish has gotten quite big. Too big. Any of my loved ones who I have video called over the past three to four months has heard about these silverfish. I mean, you’re reading about them now. Whatever your big or small problems during this quarantine, there are far less distractions of movies, socialization, eating out – FUN – to balance out our problems. Instead of trying to “forget” about them, try to blow up the good things as big as the annoying things. So, on my morning walk, I obsess over the bunny rabbits. The photo you see is of the actual sky. It’s not you, it’s biology
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