Day 1: The Library

It hit when I got the email from the library at 12:35PM that they would be closing at 6:00PM until April 6. I had 5h25m to get reading provisions for the next three weeks.

I hadn’t felt the same urge over the toilet paper rush, but then again I’ve never packed an extra suitcase of toilet paper for vacation like I have with books. The empty shelves of TP at Walmart didn’t bother me when I finally went looking for it this morning, either. Maybe because there’s still a pile of leaves in the backyard that I meant to move to the curb last fall. Sometimes, if you wait long enough, a pile can be creatively re-purposed.

I feel uneasy about the library, though. And people getting sick. The spread of something I can’t see and wondering if a cough is just a cough. There’s a trip to Israel cancelled. I have three boys at home for awhile. They learn in radically different ways. There’s the remainder of a college semester, now to teach online.

My lot is vastly more doable than many, and I’m not writing to complain. I’m writing because I’m figuring, and I’m sharing here because I can’t really host convos right now, can I? There’s not enough toilet paper for all of you in the Troy household.

I had another blog series set to go, but I don’t think finished thoughts are what we need right now. I’ll share my figuring instead. Who knows for how long? Who knows to what end? But I’ll be here everyday until then, sharing my days as they happen and hoping you’ll do the same.