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Ride Your Wave

Kimi to, Nami ni Noretara, known as Ride Your Wave or Juntos en el Mar in Spanish, is an anime film produced by Science Saru, written by Reiko Yoshida and directed by Masaaki Yuasa. It was released on June 21 of 2019 in Japan and was the winner for a best-animated film in the last edition of the Sitges Festival.

Director Masaaki Yuasa created his animation studio and has already had good successes such as "Lu over the wall", where there is also a story closely related to water.

As some connoisseurs may note, art is also very similar to Devilman Crybaby, too by Masaaki Yuasa. The colours and subtle strokes make the animation something unique, sometimes bordering on the dreamlike. His style is straightforward, closely related to traditional Japanese aesthetics, although he knows how to look for new angles and approaches that exploit the possibilities of digital animation.

Even though the animation of his films is not spectacular, he gets enough dynamism in his scenes and camera motion, the movements and figures of the bodies often are disproportionate and take different forms. The work has a fantastic, poetic touch and a lot of potentials when it comes to mixing traditional animation with digital techniques.

The sound and music fall under the direction of Michiru Oshima, a legend in this field who knows how to complement very well the feeling we have on-screen, which makes the emotions of happiness or sadness intensify considerably, albeit very subtly.

It tells the story of Hinako, a girl who has lived near the sea since she was a child but moved because of her father's work and, now that she is a university student, decided to return to the sea that she loves so much so that she could surf again.

By chance, she meets Minato, a firefighter who rescues her from the roof of her burning building, with whom she quickly develops a love relationship. As they spend time together, Hinako teaches Minato to surf. Although she has always been very reckless and can ride the highest waves, she is not quite sure what to do with her life. On the contrary, Minato may not be very good at surfing, but he is very determined and, when he wants something, he puts all the effort into the world, which makes him a great firefighter, cook and many other things.

But unfortunately, Minato dies in an accident precisely surfing, so Hinako will have to overcome one of the most complicated episodes of her life. She has fallen so deeply in love with someone who is no longer... or so she believed, because thanks to a song that they shared, Minato comes to life once more, in the water.

Hinako does not know if she is going crazy or not, but only she can see him and talk to him, which does not make it easy to overcome this great tragedy of her life despite having the support of her family and friends. To overcome her present, she will have to dig into her past. In this, we can see that many people do not realize the kind actions that they carry out and that positively influence other people. Many acts can seem trivial, but for another, they can be critical in their lives, for better or for worse. Just as violence only generates more of it, kind actions also generate and promote more good actions, something that is very clear thanks to this film.

On the surface, it is about love, but more deeply, it is about loss and overcoming difficulties that are inherent in living. Here "riding the waves" not only refers to surfing but is used as a metaphor to overcome complications and seek maturity and independence as a human being. Represented when Hinako says "what is the use of being a surfer if you can only ride waves in the sea", hinting that your recklessness in the water is useless if in your daily life you are lost and do not know which waves to take, which ones to let go through and what to do with yourself.

Director Masaaki Yuasa commented: "Whether at work or in life, we often feel like we are riding a wave. The phrase good condition refers to that, but the waves do not obey our wishes. We choose the waves we want to ride, and we try to do it. We flow with them. We will not know where it will take us until we are there. You can think as much as you want, but until you try you will not know it in this world, it is about choosing the best wave you can. I wanted to take a pure character and make him surf".

In the film, it will be inevitable to think about relationships, friends, family and what the future holds. Something that, given the context in which we find ourselves (quarantine due to the coronavirus), is something that undoubtedly hits squarely on viewers.

All these elements make Ride Your Wave a tragic, moving and highly recommended story.

-Hoshi

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Please allow me a paragraph or two or a few to vent.

A few days ago we traveled to a hospital in Barcelona for Susan to receive some routine medical treatment. When we got there, I was horrified.

In front of the single open entrance to the hospital there was a guard checking passes and printed appointments. We hadn’t realized that we would need to print her appointment schedule, so that was a problem, but the far more serious problem was that there were hundreds of people passing in and out of one bottle-necked entrance. When you go to the supermarket, folks are spaced at least 2 meters apart, calmly and patiently waiting to enter. When you go to the hospital, on the other hand, WHERE THERE ARE A LOT OF FUCKING SICK PEOPLE, it’s a rugby scrum where no one, NO ONE, is separated at all. I couldn’t believe my eyes.

Needless to say, I was pretty upset by the time I and my immunocompromised wife got to oncology. We sat in the waiting room. Seats had been marked off so that there was an empty seat between each patient. Susan and I sat next to each other at the end of a row in two adjoining seats. A few minutes later, two doctors passing by stopped as though slapped and glared at us in horror and outrage, ordering us to separate immediately. So instead of sitting next to my wife, with whom I’d recently shared a bed, a car, a kiss, and whose ungloved hand I was at that very moment holding in my own ungloved hand, I moved from roughly 90 cm away from an elderly cancer patient, whose immune system was no doubt weakened, to about 45 cm from him. Made perfect sense.

Susan’s morning appointment wrapped up around  8:30, and her next appointment wasn’t until 12:30, so we got in the car and started heading up into the hills. Almost immediately a police car pulls up next to us and indicates that we should roll down our window.

“There are two people in your car,” the cop driving says to us. I immediately launch into an explanation of how we had gone to the hospital, and my wife can’t drive, and her appointments…. Until the passenger seat cop leans over and explains that if there are two people in the car, the passenger has to be in the back seat. And we should both be wearing masks. Oh, okay, no problem there officer. They glower at us and drive on.

We pull over so Susan can climb into the back seat. Now, I can understand (somewhat) the reasoning behind this, and for taxis and public transport and such, distancing makes good sense. But I might note again that my wife and I had recently shared a bed and a kiss, held hands, and were at that very moment in the enclosed confines of a car. How was moving her to the back seat going to protect either of us? Perhaps if she rode on top of the car…but hey, whatever, she can move out back if necessary.

Anyway, by this point I was feeling angry, sad, frustrated and, since my wife is in a lot of pain and the only thing I can do about it is go to the pharmacy to get her more meds, helpless. But since we had a lot of time on our hands, we drove through a gorgeous spring morning into the hills above Barcelona and parked at the Can Coll Center for Environmental Education, which has access to some really lovely walks.

Now, having to go to the hospital under lock down has advantages and disadvantages. On the minus side, it exposes you and your loved ones to the toxic cocktail of illnesses to be found in hospitals (1.7 million Americans develop hospital-acquired infections each year, and 99,000 die from them), you risk run-ins with police, and you have to leave your kids at home alone. Oh, and, you know, cancer.

On the plus side, you get to leave the house and go somewhere – anywhere, you can potentially find a place with no one around where you can sneak off into the forest, and you get to leave your kids at home alone.

While Susan sat in the car and had a snooze (windows open, a wildflower-scented breeze blowing through), I grabbed my binoculars and headed out on a trail. I can’t even begin to describe what that did for my physical and emotional well being. I’ve written quite a bit about the health benefits of being out in green spaces, but I believe those benefits have grown exponentially with each day I’ve spent indoors. (And we’ve all spent a lot of time recently learning about exponentiality.)

Iris, alyssum, cistus, wild garlic, cherry and dozens of other flowering plants dotted the fields and forests, and I followed a path that wound through meadows and mixed woodland, past a small pond, and along a tiny burbling stream in a spring-green valley. I surprised a little owl perched on a post, listened to a woodpecker drumming for a mate, heard a hawk keening above the trees, and stretched out in a meadow to revel in sunshine and birdsong.

I swear I could feel my cortisol (the “stress hormone”) levels dropping.  My frustration ebbed away. My NK cells (“natural killer” cells, crucial to the immune system) multiplied like mushrooms after rain, and I found I could concentrate on my immediate surroundings without worrying about what latest evils America’s orange monster was perpetrating, or how many new infections there had been in the state of Maine, where my 85 year-old mother lives, or whether at that moment curves were flattening around the world.

But of course at the time I wasn’t thinking about cortisol, or NK cells or “mindfulness” (And let me digress slightly here. You tell me you’re going on a ‘mindfulness walk.’ I’m not sure how to feel about that, but if you have to consciously bring your attention to your present surroundings and situation, if you have to focus your attention on being conscious of your consciousness, you’re maybe not doing it right. I don’t know. Look around you. Turn over logs and stones to see what’s under them. Smell stuff. Feel stuff. Eat stuff, if you know it’s safe. Check shit out without being mindful of your own mindfulness. But hey, that’s just me going off on one.), I was just hanging out in the woods. And it made me feel a lot better.

Which brings me, I suppose, to the whole point of this bramble of a ramble. At some unknown point in a truly unknown future, all of us are going to go outside again. It is my dearest, most fervent and heartfelt desire that when we do so, we choose not to flock back to the shopping malls, to the MegaMarts, to line up for hours in front of the sleek minimalist wonder of an iStore for the latest iDevice. That we don’t purge our weeks or months of isolation with an orgy of consumption. That we don’t heed our leaders who tell us the best way to get back to ‘normal’ is to go shopping. What we’re going to need most, at the end of all of this, are open green spaces, trees, flowers, plants, clear-flowing rivers and clean seas. We will need to reconnect not only with the people we love and have missed but with the natural world around us.

Here in Spain children have not been allowed to leave their homes for over 5 weeks. I think that has been a grave mistake on the part of the government. Everyone needs to get outside, needs to feel a connection with the natural world – even if it’s only on tree-lined city streets or in public parks – for their mental and physical well-being. I feel that sensible measures could have been taken to allow this to happen. But what’s past is past. What we need in the short term is to get out into nature, hopefully with new-found affection and appreciation. What we need in the long term is only to change the entire way humans think about, use (and abuse), and interact with the our planet, its resources, and our fellow inhabitants. That’s a pretty tall order, I know. So let’s just start with a walk in the woods.

Cancer Tourism in Corona Times Please allow me a paragraph or two or a few to vent. A few days ago we traveled to a hospital in Barcelona for Susan to receive some routine medical treatment.

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La pandemia del coronavirus dispara los casos de depresión a nivel mundial

28 mayo 2022

- La COVID-19 al margen de su letalidad en muchos y sus secuelas, en otros, ha generado un gran aumento de casos de alta depresión en todo el mundo.

- Dejo aquí un artículo que analiza la situación:

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La pandemia del coronavirus dispara los casos de depresión a nivel mundial

La llegada del coronavirus ha propiciado más casos de depresión en el mundo. Los grupos más afectados son los jóvenes, las mujeres y los mayores.

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Madrid 27.05.2022 13:43

Este viernes se ha celebrado el XX Seminario Lundbeck en Sitges, en el que se ha tratado el tema de la depresión y el género.

Según datos analizados durante el evento, en los últimos dos años los casos de depresión han aumentado un 28% a nivel mundial. Esto ha afectado especialmente a jóvenes, mujeres de mediana edad y ancianos. En el caso de los mayores, dentro de las residencias existe una prevalencia de depresión del 16%.

Adolescentes en el punto de mira

Los casos de problemas de salud mental han proliferado entre adolescentes. Ejemplo de ello es que la cantidad de intentos de suicidio dentro del grupo de edad ha aumentado un 150%.

Tratando de evitar que el número siga aumentando, cada vez más centros de salud están abriendo plantas dedicadas a la salud mental de los adolescentes. Según ha podido destacar Marina Diaz Marsá, jefa de psiquiatría del Clínico de Madrid, se han visto incrementados los intentos de suicidio y las autolesiones entre los más jóvenes.

Más común entre mujeres

El año 2020 fueron diagnosticados 53 millones de trastornos depresivos a nivel mundial, de los cuales 35 millones correspondían a mujeres, según publicó la revista "The Lancet" en 2021. La depresión es la causa principal de "discapacidad laboral" entre mujeres de 18 a 44 años.

Una de cada cinco mujeres sufrirá depresión por lo menos una vez a lo largo de su vida. No solo eso, también tienen el doble de posibilidades de sufrir un episodio depresivo. La mitad de estos casos surgirán al comienzo de los 40.

Según ha explicado Díaz, las estructuras cerebrales de las mujeres se ven "más afectadas" ante el estrés y los cambios en niveles hormonales. Esto hace que la ansiedad y la depresión sean más comunes entre personas del sexo femenino. Los episodios depresivos comienzan "con la aparición de la menstruación" y el riesgo de sufrirlos es mayor en el postparto, la gestación y la perimenopausia.

Fuente: https://buff.ly/3wWJM1a

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Cops looking for occupants of hotel room in Dacera case

#PHnews: Cops looking for occupants of hotel room in Dacera case

MANILA – Police investigators are now identifying the occupants of the hotel room where 23-year-old flight attendant Christine Angelica Dacera went back and forth hours before she died, the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) said on Friday.

In a television interview, NCRPO chief Brig. Gen. Vicente Danao Jr. said the newly-formed special investigation task group (SITG) seeks to ascertain the identities of the people who were in Room 2209 of the City Garden Grand Hotel, as the victim entered and left the room multiple times.

"We presume that an hour or three hours before she passed out, she came from that room. Doon po kami naka-focus [That's what we are focusing on]," Danao said.

Dacera checked in at Room 2209 of the Hotel to celebrate New Year's Eve with her friends. The next day, she was found dead in the bathtub of the hotel room with the suspicion that she was raped.

"I’m calling on the friends na nandoon po sa (who were in) (room) 2209 to help us in the investigation. Meron po silang isang friend diyan na siya ang nagdala noong grupo na iyon. 'Yun ang kailangan nating makuha (There is this one friend of them who brought the group there. That is what we should determine),” Danao said.

Some of the suspects claimed they met some men in another room, whom they identified as gay.

“Sa ngayon nangangalap pa tayo ng additional evidence, para ma-strengthen at gawing airtight case. Ang number one natin na makita natin o ma-establish is if there was a foul play at syempre kung ‘yung tao ay naging intoxicated na, if there was rape (Right now, we are still gathering additional evidence to strengthen and make an airtight case. Now, we need to establish if there was foul play and if rape occurred once the victim got intoxicated),” he said.

Danao also said that due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic, there is a new protocol ordering the immediate embalming of a cadaver before the conduct of an autopsy.

“Inamin naman kasi nung ating medico legal na in-embalm muna bago ang autopsy. Well, ang take ko kasi diyan siguro kasi because of the new Covid protocol especially in times of pandemic meron kasing bagong guidelines ngayon (Our medico legal admitted that it was embalmed first before undergoing autopsy. Well, my take is because maybe because of the new Covid-19 protocol, especially now that we are in the midst of a pandemic),” he told reporters in a separate interview.

Danao said they are assessing if they can use the collected specimen from Dacera’s body for other vital examinations including the conduct of toxicology examination which can even identify the use of illegal drugs.

Meanwhile, Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra ordered the National Bureau of Investigation to conduct a probe on the case.

"The NBI, through Officer-In-Charge Eric B. Distor, is hereby directed and granted authority to conduct an investigation on the death of Christine Angelica F. Dacera, who died on 01 January 2021 in Makati City and if evidence warrants, to file the appropriate charges against all persons involved and found responsible for any unlawful act in connection therewith," Guevarra said in Department Order No. 006 released on Friday.

Guevarra also directed the NBI to submit reports on the progress of the investigation to his office "within 10 days and periodically thereafter".

On Wednesday, the Makati City Prosecutors Office ordered a further investigation of the case and the release of three detained suspects identified as John Pascual Dela Serna, Rommel Galido, and John Paul Halili due to insufficient evidence.

Danao, meanwhile, clarified that the three are not yet off the hook as they should prove their innocence by submitting sworn statements.

Police officers were also ordered to submit a DNA analysis report, toxicology/chemical analysis, and a histopathology examination report as additional pieces of evidence.

The hearing for the preliminary investigation of the case was set for Jan. 13. (with reports from Benjamin Pulta/PNA)

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References:

* Philippine News Agency. "Cops looking for occupants of hotel room in Dacera case." Philippine News Agency. https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1126808 (accessed January 09, 2021 at 01:07AM UTC+14).

* Philippine News Agency. "Cops looking for occupants of hotel room in Dacera case." Archive Today. https://archive.ph/?run=1&url=https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1126808 (archived).

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"Confinar a los sanos puede ser contraproducente"

Antes de la pandemia, el cirujano barcelonés Antonio Sitges-Serra revolucionó el sector editorial con su libro 'Si puede, no vaya al médico' (Debate y Libros del Zorzal), una aguda mirada crítica sobre las interferencias entre la política, el capitalismo y la medicina en una sociedad que vive de espaldas a la muerte. Número uno en ventas tanto en Amazon como en muchas librerías físicas, en su libro se criticaba con dureza el sistema médico invasivo, hipocondríaco y vigilante que reina en Corea del Sur.

etiquetas: sanos, contraproducente, médico, cirujano, corea, coronavirus

» noticia original (www.elconfidencial.com)

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#Covid19 #Coronavirus El historietista Juan Giménez había nacido en Mendoza en 1943, donde creció imitando los dibujos de los cómics que más le gustaban y en esa misma ciudad argentina murió por coronavirus ​después de haber vuelto desde Sitges, España, donde residía. #QuedateEnCasa https://www.instagram.com/p/B-jhFwYpVwB/?igshid=1az0u8mdpunlp

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La feria @feriascrapplus de Sitges se suspende...😭😭. Qué hacemos con todo lo que teníamos preparado? 🤔En fin... es lo más sensato y ya está. #feriascrapplus #ponunaovejaentuvida #manosmagnosillas #coronavirus https://www.instagram.com/p/B9mQMBxIKxu/?igshid=1j1szai3geqzt

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Més de 70 morts i 3.700 ferits en dues enormes explosions al port de BeirutEl president del Líban assenyala 2.750 tones de nitrat d'amoni que han estat sis anys en un magatzem sense mesures de seguretat com a causa de les deflagracions

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Enormes columnes de fum s'han elevat a Beirut aquest dimarts a la tarda, després d'una forta explosió en un magatzem de la zona portuària. La deflagració ha deixat més de 70 morts i 3.700 ferits confirmats, segons l'últim recompte del Ministeri de Salut libanès. L'Agència Nacional de Notícies libanesa parla d'"incomptables" morts i ferits.

Mitjans locals apunten que només un dels hospitals de la capital libanesa ha rebut mig miler de ferits. Els centres hospitalaris estan desbordats, i s'ha demanat que totes les ambulàncies del país es traslladin a la capital libanesa. També hi ha ciutadans que han quedat atrapats a casa seva.

L'explosió ha generat una enorme onada expansiva que s'ha sentit a tota la capital libanesa. Ha fet bolcar vehicles i embarcacions, i ha trencat estructures de vidre. Moltes edificacions de diversos barris de la ciutat se n'han vist afectades.

La deflagració s'ha pogut sentir fins i tot a l'illa de Xipre, a 180 quilòmetres.

Tot i que no es descarta res, les primeres versions apunten que tot podria haver començat amb un incendi a les sitges de blat del port. El foc, amb l'increment sobtat de les temperatures, es podria haver estès a un magatzem, situat a les instal·lacions portuàries, que contenia materials altament explosius.

Tones de nitrat d'amoni sense mesures de seguretat

La principal hipòtesi és que la causa de l'explosió ha estat accidental. A la nit, el president del Líban, Michel Aoun ha assenyalat a la presència de 2.750 tones de nitrat d'amoni, un compost químic, que han estat sis anys en un magatzem sense mesures de seguretat com la causa de les deflagracions.

Al llarg del dia, alguns mitjans han elucubrat amb un atac d'Israel contra el moviment xiïta de Hezbollah. Però Israel ha negat qualsevol tipus de vinculació amb l'incident i ha ofert suport humanitari i mèdic al Líban.

Altres països com França, l'Iran, els Estats Units, Egipte, els Emirats Àrabs Units o Qatar també s'han solidaritzat amb el Líban.

El president libanès ha ordenat a les Forces Armades que patrullin les zones més afectades per "mantenir la seguretat".

El primer ministre del Líban, Hasan Diab, ha declarat un dia de dol nacional aquest dimecres.

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A day spent indoors has always felt like something of a defeat to me.

So in these days of lock down you might imagine that I feel somewhat, well, defeated. Since we live smack in the center of our city we no longer have the luxury of outdoor spaces; there are only beaches that we can’t go to, parks that we can’t stroll in, and forests that are tantalizingly close but impossible to visit.

More or less complete lock down, as we have here in Spain, is an entirely different prospect when you live in a city-center flat rather than, say, a house in the suburbs. In the suburbs you can sit on your porch and nod at your appropriately-distanced neighbors, have a barbecue on the deck, set up croquet on the lawn, prune your trees, paint the trim, putter in the garden. (Man, if I had a yard I would have gardened the bejesus out that thing by now.)

That said, it’s not entirely true that we have no outdoor areas – we do have a small courtyard, roughly the size of a walk-in closet, where we daily kick the football around for ten minutes or so until the futility of trying to play football in a walk-in closet becomes patently clear. We also have – and I believe this is what has thus-far preserved my sanity – a roof terrace.

For a few hours each day, weather permitting, we become roof dwellers. Granted, there are no green things – no plants, no trees, no moss or grass, not even a swatch of lichen up there –  but there are views of the sea, the sky, the mountains, and, of course, of everyone else out on their terraces and balconies. And these days, it seems that everyone who has access to even the smallest slice of outdoor space is utilizing it.

There’s the couple, I would guess in their mid-fifties, who sunbathe daily on the roof next door.  He’s apparently going for the more-or-less-all-over tan, shedding his clothes and wedging his underwear well up into his cracka-doodle-doo. The wife, in the bikini she bought in her teens, starts hitting the vermouth mid-morning and by mid-afternoon is swaying to the music they both play much, much too loudly. She caught my eye yesterday mid-sway and blearily inquired, “La música es buena, ¿no?” I wanted to respond, “Si, si, muy buena, but “Hotel California” actually sounds way better at a decibel level lower than that of a rocket launch.” But of course in the interest of rooftop harmony and solidarity I simply smiled sweetly and gave her a somewhat ambivalent shrug.

There’s the young woman who lives across the narrow street on the other side of our building, who spends a couple of hours each day on her terrace working out in leggings and a tiny exercise top. I sit, ostensibly reading my book but actually just pretending that I’m not watching her do squats. She and her family also play music, mostly of a Latin-American strain, and are frequently in direct and simultaneous competition with Hotel California on the other side of the building. Makes reading challenging at times.

There’s the kid from my son’s football association who tries to play on his terrace, which is a good 6 meters long but probably only two meters wide, and contains a table, chairs, various plants, and a laundry drying rack. It just doesn’t work, obviously, but his desperation is plain. He generally quits after a few minutes and resorts to gazing wistfully at the street below. There’s a lot of wistful gazing going around.

Then there are the pacers, the people who walk for kilometers in a space not much bigger than a swimming pool. I watched a guy the other day walking the rectangle of his roof, going round and round for hours like a captive elephant in a state of melancholy madness. I wasn’t sure what was more disturbing – the relentless pacing or the fact of me watching it.

Which brings  me to another, rather uncomfortable point. I’m peeping in on the lives of my neighbors. I’m photographing them for chrissake. If I weren’t the one doing it I think I’d find that pretty creepy. To be fair, I’m not looking in their windows or attempting to see anything that isn’t already on full public display, but it still feels a little, I don’t know, intrusive. (I wanted to bring my binoculars up the other day to watch the birds, but thought that a middle-aged guy on the roof peering through binoculars might appear pretty pervy.)

And there are a surprising number of birds – I’ve counted ten species thus far. Since it’s spring the ledges are filled with horny pigeons and collared doves, strutting and cooing and having quickies, but there are also parakeets and seagulls, blackbirds and blackcaps, house sparrows and wagtails. They have the skies to themselves; there are no airplanes anymore. This is a busy flight corridor, and under normal circumstances there would be at least half a dozen planes in view – and earshot – at any given moment. Now the skies are silent except for birdsong.

When this whole thing is over I think I’m going to miss that silence. I think I might miss spending long minutes watching a tortoise lumbering across the neighbor’s garden 5 stories below, or contemplating the fact that the young 20-something, childless couple in our building have Elmo underwear on their drying rack, or seeing whether I can make a rooftop dog bark at me simply by staring it straight in the eyes.

We’re in the midst of a unique global social experiment, the likes of which have never been seen before, and we haven’t the faintest clue how it’s all going to turn out. But one thing is certain – we’re in many ways all in this together (even if we must remain spatially apart), and it’s nice to have a friendly (if somewhat oddball) community high above the empty streets. So to all the sunbathers, workout fanatics, music lovers, captive children, rooftop marathoners, nappers, readers, eaters, and wistful gazers, I say it’s nice to have you around. Take care of each other, and I’ll see you up on the roof.

  Up on the Roof: Coronavirus Quarantine from Above A day spent indoors has always felt like something of a defeat to me. So in these days of lock down you might imagine that I feel somewhat, well, defeated.

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