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White postcard with a photograph of a smiling woman sitting down. She faces the camera and holds a cane. The top of the postcard reads "No pudiste mas". 1939-2020.

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Postcard featuring a photograph of a black bench. The bench has a green patterned cushion and is located in a room with a lot of sunlight and white curtains. The bottom of the postcard reads SUN SETTING in QUARANTINED CHAMBER

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Blue postcard with red, blue, and orange line drawings. In the center, the postcard says LISTEN HOLD GATHER REMEMBER. In one corner, a stamp features a blue bird. In two other corners, text explains that this postcard is from the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth and features a painting by Georgie O'Keefe entitled Cottonwood Tree in Spring on the reverse side.

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White postcard covered with many silver dots and some multicolored dots. There is a rectangle in the center. Text is scattered across the postcard, reading LOVE, COURAGE, PEACE, FAITH, HOPE

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White postcard with red and orange line drawings framing a small abstract painting. The painting features swirls of green, blue, red, and white.

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Green and red postcard featuring the words NEVER FORGOT in the center

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Blue text on a white postcard forms a spiral. A small red rose with a green leaf is attached to the top of the postcard with beige masking tape.The text reads That Spring March took the winding road covered snow with sorrow turning to scornful sleet a rhyming season nestled in the thread of fear. The world locked up knocked by the news confused the living. Time has become a wrinkled mirror, distorted, mourners rain down their tears drown and where am I? Connected through a cloud I cannot remove myself from the Ne Age of worry. Kneeling on a stoop of my building seeking penance on the upper Island against the backdrop of racism, anti-Semitism, violence against days pocketed away in memory baring truths into a world of folly. Masked, unmasked - halfway seen not seen at all, half taken back, forgetting the soaring bells that rang at 7 pm. No return is to be made. We like rootless creatures must reset the clock.

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White postcard with three green drawings: one small house and two larger buildings. Pink text reads We miss our people of New York City.

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Postcard featuring a photograph of a sandy beach beneath a blue sky. Collaged letters form the words SING TO ME NOW 2022

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White postcard filled with multi-colored drawing. Blue waves surround an abstract mix of brown swirls, yellow triangles, and a red heart

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White postcard with gray text. The text reads What have we lost and learned from Covid? I thought I lost myself and/or my purpose. Stuck in a place where the world felt still and I felt stagnant. I learned that I love myself - that I truly want to be with myself and the pain I experience is still part of me and valid in the waves of hard and soft sadness.

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New York City skyline, with many tall buildings against a blue, gray and yellow sky. Several dark clouds in the sky. The bottom of the postcard features text which reads: A table near the window of my 16th fl apartment. This was my place of confinement for more than a year. This is where I discovered the New York sky and its infinite wisdom.

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Silver and green beads fill the background. A pink tapestry rests on top of the beads. In the center of the image text reads: How Can We Heal?

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Shades of red, gray, white, and black like a sunset with three thin black stripes at the center. The top of this postcard reads Heart felt memories. The bottom of this postcard reads Erachie

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A small white moon in the middle of a blue sky at twilight. Some trees with green and red leaves in the lower left corner. At the top of the postcard, text reads: Strength comes from within. Text at the bottom of the postcard reads: Erachie

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A pink, cloud-covered sky above the dark silhouette of a building and trees. At the center, text reads: What have we lost and learned from Covid?

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Purple text against a white background reads: Aprendiendo a respirar Sin peligro, Aprendiendo a respirar. Green and pink lines and dots decorate the space beneath the words.

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Green and white line drawing with purple dots and squares

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Plain white postcard with pink lines and black text. Text reads: Mamama linda preciosa, A ver si esta postal te llega a Lima, asi como yo no te pude llegar por muchisimo tiempo. Te mundo un abrazo, de nueva york a Lima y de mi corazon hasta el cielo. Tu nieta que te adam. The postcard also features an address and the date, November 24 2021.

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Colorful abstract drawing. In the center, purple text against a yellow background reads: In what world were we all safe, living?

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Fuchsia text against a plain white background reads: Together together To gather To get together

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Fuchsia text against a plain white background reads: Together To gather To get Together Together togather To get Together

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Black text against a plain white background reads: Healing and growing: In this time of healing in our post-Covid world, it is essential to lean on each other. Nobody was prepared for this, and nobody can recover alone. Mourn those lost, and be thankful for those we have. The healing process cannot prevail unless we are all participating. We all need to grow, individually and as an overall community. We must grow to be a more kind and understanding world. We must work through the negatives and never forget the positives. Healing and growth is only possible if we all work together. -Chloe, 15

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Black text on a plain white background reads: Lost and Learned: It goes without saying that so much was lost during Covid. Lives, jobs, faith. Nobody could have predicted the overwhelming effects that this pandemic has left behind. Among all of this one thing I know I lost was hope. I lost the hope that people could be good. I lose the hope that this country really cared. I definitely lost hope that this virus will ever die (at this rate it might not). Hope is so crucial for perseverance, for survival, and yet in the time it was needed most was when it was hardest to find. What I've learned is to have faith that it will get better. The pain of the loss during this past year and a half can never be forgotten, but it can be endured. We will stay strong because it is what we have to do. I've learned to remember that there are good people out there. There are things worth fighting for. I learned how to get my hope back.

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Blue and red text reads: I RE-GAINED A SENSE OF PLAY

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Blue and red text reads: I LOST A FEAR OF NOT KNOWING. Smaller text in pink reads: uncertainty is also possibility

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Green text on a plain white background reads: 12.4.2021. We are not through, we are not through, we are not through, we are not through. We can only live in suspended disbelief, we can only live with suspended disbelief. Memory and feeling are both disconnected and merged. Boundaries have changed. We are out of time and only have time. What do we share without our common dreams.

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Blue lines decorate the edges of a white postcard. Green text reads: The Pandemic. My very and only life crawled into a deep hibernation. Littler other than numbness felt natural. Despite longing for falling into a cozy embrace of liquid mercury or dark + deep blue velvet, my body responded with pain and breakage. My neck, my hips, and vagina, The bottoms of my feet, my left knee and my right hand, the sides of my head and most of all my lungs. Breathing became a consideration. Through it all, I thought (I made myself think) about gratitude. Maybe I learned a little. The text ends with a drawing of a heart.

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White, black, and deep orange spiral against an orange and gold background

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Black text forming a spiral against a golden background. The text reads: WALKING AND TALKING TOGETHER WE CAN IMAGINE AND CREATE BETTER WORLDS

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Purple, blue, green, and white checkered spiral

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Blue text against a plain white background. Text reads: HOW CAN THE SHOCK OF COVID AND THE EXPLOITIVE WAY OF LIFE THAT CAME TO THE FORE IN OUR GLOBAL ENTANGLEMENT BE TRANSFORMED INTO A DIFFERENT FORM OF LIVING TOGETHER?

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Blue text against a plain white background. Text reads: LOSE THE ENCOUNTERS IN-BETWEEN. LOSE THE EMERGENCE OF PRESENCE. LOSE IMMEDIACY; - QUESTIONING WHAT THAT IS. NOT CARING ANYMORE ABOUT SUCCESS BUT STARTING TO THINK ABOUT HOW TO CARE FOR EACH OTHER. LEARNING TO CARE ABOUT THE EVERYDAY. HOW CAN WE RESHAPE SOCIETY FROM THE EVERY DAY AS A POINT OF DEPARTURE? TO REALIZE INTERCONNECTIONS BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH

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An orange and yellow sun and blue text against a plain white background. The text reads: I went to Trader Joe's once every four weeks; I missed walking in the city. I treasured the hour-long walk, the chance to be out in the sun, and promised myself more walks in the future, with myself, with friends, with the trees in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

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An orange drawing of an open book next to orange text. The text reads: I had stopped reading for joy, which is why I had started reading. A friend started a weekly Book Club on Zoom, and on some days a good sentence would help me sleep better. On some others, it would help me sleep.

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Green drawing of a tree next to green text. The text reads: I had never looked at the same tree so often. I watched the seasons change in its leaves. In the summer, when it was green, I told myself I would get some plants. I did, and I named them, and they are good friends now.

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A purple drawing of a window next to purple text. The text reads: One looked outside more, and noticed someone smoking a cigarette each morning, their hair growing longer with the passing months. One day they were hugging someone on the street, and you were happy for the warmth that may have passed between their bodies.

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Small drawings of hearts against a plain white background.

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Multi-colored text reads R.I.P. David Smith 1981-2020. Died from Covid 19. Son of UNKNOWN. Three sisters fourteen brothers. Rest in peace David Smith

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A blue drawing of a horse with a thought bubble above its head, asking Where's my owner? Next to the horse, a red drawing of a person with Xs covering their eyes and mouth. This person is labeled "owner." Red drawings of flowers and a small person join these larger drawings.

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Abstract drawing of various shapes in orange, blue, green

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Black text on a plain white background. Text reads: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED? We needed to take a PAUSE. The environment needs us to stop flying, driving, moving incessantly, polluting, consuming. We need to stop for a minute, look around, notice the trees changing colors, notice the ways people treat each other, see - as if for the first time - why those of various races, genders, sexualities, ages and so are NOT SAFE in our country...PAUSE, TAKE STOCK, Choose to act differently.

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Multi-colored text against a white background. At the center, large text reads PRACTICES OF CARE. This is surrounded by smaller text, which reads: Collective care *is* self-care! How can we heal together? Transform ourselves & our world, our relations & our roles. A meal cooked, a meal shared, groceries delivered. Picking up/dropping off/ accompanying to doctors appointments, hospitalization, trips to the pharmacy. ABOLISH THE STATE! ABOLISH PRISONS! ACCESS IS LOVE! What is the shape of safety? of bravery? of care? of love? of accountability?

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Purple text against a white background decorated with orange and purple lines, reading GIVING WARMTH TO ONE ANOTHER

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Multi-colored circles feature patterns and text that reads Nos Necesitamos = We Need Each Other

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Red text on a white background reads: Like electric wires we twitch, shock each other, touch raw nerves... yet we also give light and generate energy. Our protective sheaths are gone.

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Blue spiraling text on a plain white background reads: Surviving Covid is about loss. We lost a sense of caring for each other. We protected ourselves. But as we did that, our political world exploded. We became enemies. Don't care. Kill the poor. Kill the old. Let our better selves die. We lost a lost through Covid.

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Blue text on a plain white background reads: Losing ideals meant finding other things to do and hold onto... hope as practice, as discipline, as a doing...always with others. The text ends with a drawing of a heart

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Blue text on a plain white background reads: We have lost our faith And we need to keep trusting each other and working together. Lucas Gottfried Age 10

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Blue text on a plain white background reads: We have lost years of Friendship, Family, community, love, and commitment to the common good. We must learn again to love and support each other, both Friends/Family and strangers. - Oliver

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Purple text on a plain white background with pink and purple hearts. Text reads: Loss mobility possibility hope opportunity. Learn community friendship togetherness gratitude. Love work hope

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Multicolored spiral in between one arrow pointing down and another pointing up. Text inside the spiral reads: LOOK WATCH ALONE TOGETHER FEAR LOVE LOSS PEACE ANGER BREADTH RAGE MARCH READ WRITE RECORD MY WORLD LEARN PROTEST RESIST VOTE COOK FRIENDS NUMB RAW TALKING WALKING TIRED IGNORANCE GREED SHARE EVIL CARE

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Red text on a plain white background reads: What I lost... Many loved ones, patience, hope, worry about myself, faith in institutions, social interactions. What I gained.. a more alert sense of gratitude, greater appreciation for my husband and children, a stronger sense of my ethical obligation to make the world a better place, patience, hope, acceptance, a belief in the power of community and collective action to create change

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Green and blue text on a white background with a pink border reads: What I learned during Covid is life is Beautiful and Sacred Not to Take Life for Granted To Be Present!

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Red drawing of two hands holding yarn. Text crisscrosses the yarn, borders the hands, and continues around the edges of the postcard. It begins: Please remember the infinite PLEASURE of protecting one another...

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Orange text surrounds a drawing of a flaming match. Text around the match reads: WHEN WILL THIS MATCH GO OUT?

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Multi-colored lines surround brown text reading: connections ravaged and/or replenished -it is vital to release- + say what's living in your mind + body

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Black text on a white background reads: Breathing breaths Sealing imprisonments + unlocking the will to imagine how we gained what we lost before the world was discovered. El mundo perdido respira en tus besos

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Blue text on a white background reads: In the time of covid, I lost all certainty about what the future would bring, or even the next day, for myself and for generations to come. I lost the pleasure of working with people and so much I had taken for granted. I gained an appreciation for all of that. The taken for granted freedoms and pleasures and rhythms, And I gained a deepening of old friendships in new ways

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Multi-colored text on a plain white background with a multi-colored border reads: remembering to dream!!! another time will come and we will CARE for reach other MORE...

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Green and purple lightning bolts next to the repeated word HOPE

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Multi-colored drawing of a body surrounded by text which reads: I've gained a sense of movement I've lost a sense of movement

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Pink feathers and green line drawing next to text in purple and green, reading: Change so seismic, we forget we thought we couldn't shift. Is this how we recognize we are not one but many, how we step beyond or through our materiality corporeality singularity into the us we have always been, so specific brief and unlikely. So soft and cruel and good and tender and quick like lightning. -Luca

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Multi-colored sunset above a field of sunflowers, with text in the center, reading: WE ALL LIVE IN EACH OTHER

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Black text on a white background with a small red heart. Text reads: Nov 2021. Querida mama, Gracias por mo enfermarte. Sigue siendo fuerte, valiente y saludable. Espero abrazarte pronto. Te ves linda en la pan talla pero anoro volver a sentir tu piel y el olor de tu cabello. No olvides tu tapabocas!

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Black text on a white background reads: We can heal and grow together by communicating with one another to grow because if we don't talk about this we will never heal. It is going to take courage to talk about our past, but that's how we'll eventually heal.

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Red drawing of a heart with muscular arms. Above the drawing, black text reads SOY MAS FUERTE DE LO QUE PENSE

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Red text on a white background reads: Erachie Brown. How can we heal and grow together? 1. Duplicate the activities done in these workshop and present these ideas and movements to the public. 2. Create games that involves expressing feelings of emotion, that are present or are released through these group exercises. 3. Have parent and children participating in telling their stories and experience during the pandemic

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Black text on a white background reads: How can we heal and grow together? By reflecting in what we experienced, and noticing what happened around us. I don't believe we can replicate the workshops' experiences but we got several ideas about how to create community, to share, to create, to narrate by ourselves and with others

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Blue text on a white background reads: How can we heal and grow together. Healing is a process. We started the process and it will take time. Growing is another process and doing it together will be a challenge. We can do it! Si se Puede. Healing and growing together with love, patience, care, empathy, sympathy we will bounce back. We will overcome

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Green spiral featuring the words art, love, community, trust

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The word love, in red marker on a white background

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Smell blue drawing of a heart. Pink and blue text reading: How can we heal and grow together? Try Sahaja Yoga Meditation it will be a great help as it was for me.

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Pink text on a white background reading: We can begin to heal by listening to each other

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Black pen drawing of people holding hands. Text above and below them reads: Podemos sanar juntos, hablando y compartiendo nuestras vivencias por medio del arte. Maria Galindo

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Multicolored patterned drawing with a pink heart at the center, surrounded by text including: I have lost my ability to observe from a distance because pain came through my door

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Marker drawing featuring green trees, blue lines in the sky, and pink lines on the ground, where text reads: I disengaged with the screen and re-engaged with green. Kamal Badhey Nov. 20, 22021

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Black text on a white background reads: What have we lost from Covid: I lost confidence in my body and lost confidence in everyone else's body. I lost the sense of fun walking around New York City and experiencing the different people and neighborhoods. I lost the feeling that I had control over my health. I lost my joy in hugging family, friends, and neighbors. I lost the sense of urgency to jump out of bed in the morning. What we gained from Covid: Realizing that we must connect with each other in new ways - like zoom. I took more online classes and seminars than ever before, made new friends in other parts of the country

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Black text on a white background reads: What we lost from Covid. I lost the sense that most people cared about protecting the health of other people, not just themselves (when people refused to wear masks). What we gained from Covid: After being forced to pivot, I stopped taking many things for granted that I shouldn't have taken for granted. Self-care is important and I must set aside time for self-care in a way that I never did before the pandemic (and rarely did during the first months of the pandemic)

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Black text on a white background. Text lists things lost due to the pandemic: outburst of energy, reactive living style, set challenging life's tasks to happen @ quick pace... It also lists gains: Think more logically before reacting to life, gain more understanding of accepting life's events

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Black text on a white background reads: We lost friends and family members. People got sick; people died across the world. Our neighborhoods were emptied we were silenced and alone. In our grief, we learned compassion. we helped each other heal. we began to imagine a different future. we marched for justice. we began to rebuild. -Tomie

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Black marker on a white background reads: Lost during pandemic: False pride, fear of death, imbalanced priorities

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Black marker on a white background reads: Gained during pandemic: appreciation of shared humanity, willingness to help strangers, renewed awe for nature, confirmation of the sacredness of life

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Blue text on a white background reads: Let us heal from our pain through language. Language is expressed in many forms. May we find all the right language to share, work through and never forget the experiences of our past. May the language we choose lend us a space and give us hope to grow and become stronger, wiser, and more empowered to make the changes that will help shape a better world

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Pink lines curving and black text reading HOPE COURAGE TRUST ACCEPTANCE FRIENDSHIP CURIOSITY TOUCH LOVE FOOD LAUGHTER DANCE REMEMBERING FRIENDSHIP

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Red patterned marker drawing with purple text reading INTIMACY STRESS. Interspersed in the drawing, the numbers 24/7 are repeated

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Black marker on a white background reads GAIN/LOSS during pandemic

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Pink circle in the right hand corner. Pink text on a white background reads WE HEAL REMINDING OURSELVES AND EACH OTHER THAT WE ARE NOT ALONE

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Blue marker drawing of a postage stamp in the upper right hand corner. Text reads What I gained from COVID-19... Pandemic knowledge of mortal life on this plane of existence. We have no control of reality

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Blue text on a white background reads: Life mores Forwards The Spirit Remains Experiences is a learning process That helps will the strength of life to continue throughout disasters and heart breaks

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Multi-colored drawing of a crying person and text against a white background, beginning From COVID I learned to keep walking, even if it isn't on land

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Multi-colored text on a white background beginning: Durante la Pandemia del 2020 Perdi un a ser querido, next to a drawing of a heart

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Blue text on a white background reads: Dear Mom, I truly feel that you wanted the best for your children, and a better place to live for your daughters. Unfortunately I was not ever better than you, and while we are passing through pandemic I realized how much you give me. I love you! Mariane

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Multicolored drawing of chain links with drawing of the earth interspersed. Green text reads: Where are we?

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Black text on a white background, beginning En Esta Pandemia Para mi Eve muy triste porque no podiamos salir a casa de otros familiares porque tanbien estaban...

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Black text on a white background beginning: During the pandemic, I lost my ability to trust people, my identity, and my patience.

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Gray text on a white background reading: What have you lost or gain from Covid. Lost: hair, health, hope, patients, material things, patience. Gain: WT, family values, faith, friends, valuable, things "slow down," and appreciation, and much more...

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Purple and red text reads: LOST: trust, mobility, hugs, sense of an open future, get togethers, hope, fearlessness, community. Gained: time, walks, not taking things for granted, appreciation of every day, gratitude, muscles, new possibility.

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Blue and green drawing of a clock with twelve hands. Text to the right of the clock reads: It's okay to give yourself time to process your personal experience. Text to the left of the clock reads: It's okay to forgive lost time and look forward towards possibility

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White text on a black background reads: Slow down, you move too fast. You got to make the morning last.

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Blue text with green lines beneath it reads: Be thankful for breath. Be mindful of others. Be kind to nature. Be trusting of others. Be open to listen. Be thankful to others.

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Pink text on a white background reads: I LOST HOPE AND I GAINED HOPE

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Outlined drawing of a human body. Words surround the body's head. The face is smiling beneath a blue mask. Arrows point towards its hips and a purple bow is on the body's chest. Green rope swirls around the body.