Notebook #2

Oh, to be out in the world again

The isolation is unrelenting. Now weeks into this ordeal, I find I am struggling with the physical factors of confinement as much as the psychological. The mind can somehow endure time in the desert by recalling and imagining better days; the body can only endure so much before it starts to disintegrate and fray.

I need movement.

In my confinement, I’ve …