Kaye McDonough

Wed., June 10 At the televised memorial for George Floyd, a pastor calls out to a member of his choir: “Lorraine, take us to the Valley.” Lorraine brings it.

Mon., June 12

CASES 2,275,645

DEATHS 119,923 Some Summer Reading for the Pandemic: Poe. “The Masque of the Red Death” Hawthorne. “Lady Eleanore’s Mantle” (1721-22 Boston smallpox epidemic) Ben Jonson. “On his Son” (1603) DeFoe. Journal of the Plague Year DeFoe. Robinson Crusoe (on social isolation) Edith Wharton. “Roman Fever” Henry James. Daisy Miller Albert Camus. The Plague For the ambitious:

Boccaccio. The Decameron

Mon., July 6 at 4 p.m. CASES 2,914,786 DEATHS 131,011 Worse than the corona virus, a neighbor assures me as we run into each other in the condo garage, are “the looting, the violence and Marxism.” I stay silent behind my mask. She wears none even though she is a nurse.

Mon., July 6 at 5 p.m. CASES 2,915,554 At Rockefeller Center Prometheus and Atlas wear masks.

Remembering that Death is a lagging indicator, I’m busy making place cards for the Communion of Souls.