march 27 w online meeting #6

(Apologies: somehow this post glitched out and got stuck in Drafts on Friday. Posting March 30.)
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For your MOM: "My body feels [...] today."

JOURNAL TOPIC:
Historians and journalists are describing the coronavirus pandemic as a once-in-a-century event.  What is your life like during this moment in history?


AGENDA:
1. MOM
2. Journal
3. Post

POST:
The last sentence we read today was, "He (Montag) knew that when she pulled her hand away from his face, it was wet."

We talked about why Ray Bradbury wrote this way (instead of being direct and writing something like, Montag was crying).  Drawing the reader a mental picture and making us think, making us ask Why? also draws us closer.  We feel more connected to something we work at-- not like a job, but like a jigsaw puzzle.

Work, care, commitment... these are all words that can be associated with obligation or hardship, but they can also be associated with meaning and connection.  Love, even.  Think of how much that woman cared for her books in the scene we read that made Montag cry -- she chose death over living without her books!

What do you care about enough to work for?  A relationship?  A project?  A principle?  (title: WHY I WORK)