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Inspire - An Online Performing Arts Festival by and for the Airborne Aware April 15-19 View lineup and RSVP at tinyurl.com/InspireFest2026

March Events & The Inspire Performing Arts Festival

Greetings, friends! As March is Long Covid Awareness month, I want to send kudos to all the folks who have planned online events for promoting education, advocacy, and community building for those with Long Covid. I'm planning to listen in to as much as I can of the

Cartoon adult walking next to a child dressed in same outfit over a bridge over water. Two birds flying overhead.

A Lullaby for The Inner Child

“You need to talk to your inner child,” said the first therapist I ever saw. It was more than two decades ago when this advice was first given to me. At the time, I was wavering between leaving an abusive partner or staying put and hoping for the best. I

Snowman wearing a white KN95

Zooming Through the Holidays CC-Style

Microphone on stand in venue set up for karaoke

Parodoke - O Holy Shit

Cartoon image of a laptop with 16 diverse cartoon character participants onscreen in a videoconference meeting

This Holiday Season, Community is a Click Away

Meme with pic of children sitting in a classroom in 1970s Halloween costumes swith caption 'old school costumes had it looking like a classroom full of serial killers ready to go on a purge.'

Halloween Magic: How an Ancient Tradition Reminds Us That Yes, People Will Mask to Feel Safe

Beat up vintage blue Oldsmobile with California plates

Lemons - A Poem

Photo of white woman’s hands with red painted fingernails covering her face in shame

Fool Me Once, Shame On You: Why Ignorance of Covid is a Dogshit Excuse

Photo of a golden figurine of a dog mounted on a wooden plaque on a white wicker shelf with framed pictures behind it.

A Little Gold Dog, A Not-So-Little Legacy

There’s a little figurine of a dog I keep on a shelf in my home. It’s painted gold, mounted on a weighted piece of wood, and has an embedded metal hook. I assume it’s to hold a leash, since it came with one, along with a harness,

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Microphone on stand in venue set up for karaoke

Parodoke - Safety Mask

Young couple walking in winter clothing on a wooded trail with a black and white dog between them

My Dog Hates Me: A Tribute to the Pets of the Pandemic

Pretty young blonde woman staring in a mirror with an ornate golden frame

The World Loves Pretty Things

Muscular supehero with blank white body, red cape, and black respiratory holds up a fist victoriously with a cityscape in the background.

You're the Hero of This Story - You Just Don't Know It Yet

Microphone on stand in venue set up for karaoke

Parodoke - I Just Don't Like People Anymore

Microphone on stand in venue set up for karaoke

Parodoke - A Few of the Things that are Woke

Closeup pic of fish in green water captured on Fish Doorbell livestream

Something Fishy This Way Comes

If you’re missing the unity and hope we shared during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, do not despair. There’s still a tiny little bit of it left on the web, courtesy of the Dutch. I recently came across the website for the Visdeurbel (Fish Doorbell) in

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The Mothman Prophecies: A Movie Recap/Review with Unexpected Insights for the Covid-Conscious

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For the Covid-Conscious, Our Fundamental Weakness Isn’t Empathy. It’s Enabling.

Stain glass art of masked Jesus receiving baptism

Jesus Would Mask - A Poem

As you fast and you pray In this season of Lent As you sacrifice comforts And humbly repent There’s one extra thing You could reasonably do Mask up to save lives Just as Jesus saved you It was six years ago When a virus arrived Upending the world, Claiming

Group of brown hens walking around in an enclosure

Dear Friend Who is Worried About H5N1...

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Laughing When Things Aren't Funny

Two hands held togerther in the shape of a heart with a sunset in the background

So Many Things To Love

Some scrappy ass kids standing around in the 70s waiting for the Internet to be invented

A Tribute to Generation X: How the Lawrence Welk Show and Other Childhood Traumas Prepared Us for Living Through a Pandemic

Scrooge and masked Bob

A Covid Christmas Carol