What I Carry
The calm: assessing (Still)

In her snood, she carries clear resin snakes…reference to Damballah, a cool, water, life-filled spirit in the Vodou pantheon. She is pensive, quiet, serene. She is naive.

My mantra during the first 4 months of lockdown was, “Two weeks. Two weeks.” As information shifted it was unclear what would happen when. The mantra gave me a sense of order as well a feeling of hope that this terror would have an end and that there would be a plan to contain and eradicate the mysterious plague.