GRECCHINOIS

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CHAMPAGNE AND TAXES

“As promised, despite not winning a Grammy Award today, I still celebrated with some distanced champagne shared with a couple of dear friends this afternoon. It’s such a thrill to be nominated for the Grammys, and I do hope it will happen again…”

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BLOCKS

“Day 24.

It’s interesting to me that as I enter the home stretch of this exercise in daily posting, this is the most challenging part. Each day, I push my writing time later and later, as if I am doing my best to miss a day…”

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ONE YEAR

“As the one-year anniversary of the coronavirus lockdown in the United States passes us by this week, I’ve had a lot of conversations with people discussing where we were a year ago, reminiscing about how little we seemed to know and the strange things everyone was doing as the world…”

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NEST

“The weather the past twenty-four hours has been a bit strange here in San Francisco. We had hail late last night, and then despite being sunny much of the day, small rainstorms blew through in my neighborhood intermittently all day. My home in is an ideal place to nest on wet days…”

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LIGHT

“Are you beginning to feel like we might finally be emerging from this very long, dark, viral winter? I am beginning to have some seedlings of hope feel as if they are tentatively beginning to sprout…”

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