boost: Heather Sellers Explores the Benefits of Coming Out as Disabled To Yourself

I adored this essay by Heather Sellers, who is face-blind and place-blind. Sellers teaches creative writing and her craft is A++. This essay explores:

• wayfinding
• accommodations
• self-compassion
• coming out as disabled
• the possibility & joy of later life learning

Where Am I? from Longreads

( 225 word excerpt from 8000-word essay )

On a completely different topic, Pedal Pedal Pedal in The Sun gloriously evokes the power and freedom of bike riding. Her well-organized website has tons more.

I’m trying not to panic about COVID19

So I’ve stopped with the Twitter (or as Hank Green called it, anxiety scrolling) and here are HELPFUL non-panicky things I’ve found from a day following myriad links.

Step by Step: How to Make a Mask from an Old Tee Shirt

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Even in the direst surroundings (under quarantine in Wuhan), humans reach out and connect. A cached link to the New Yorker’s graphic story by Krish Raghav, about "quarantine cooking" (undescribed images)

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While washyourlyrics.com helps you time your hand sanitation to your favorite song, Canadian pediatrician Nisha Thampi developed and tested a multi-modal variation on Frère Jacques

Wash Your Hands, Brother John

Scrub your palms
Between the fingers
Wash the back (one hand)
Wash the back (other hand)
Twirl the tips (one hand)
Around (other hand)
Scrub them upside down
Thumb attack (one thumb)!
Thumb attack (other thumb)!

( video w open English captions, turn on French subtitles in the gear menu )