We are nearly three weeks post-election. The results still feel impossible, improbable, and incredibly sad. Here is what I am doing to keep myself together:
- Reading more news, as Woolf would, because knowledge is power.
- Thinking about the importance of creativity, as Woolf argues in “Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid” (1940).
- Eating more chocolate. Leonard and Virginia were thrilled to find chocolate creams in a local shop after the Great War.
- Drinking more wine. Cecil Woolf once told me he remembered the Woolfs enjoying their wine outdoors in Tavistock Square.
- Spending time with like-minded friends, as the Woolfs did with the Bloomsbury group.
- Collecting memes that make me think, give me hope, or make me laugh. Here are a few of my favorites:
