James Finn
Jan 6, 2021

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What a great attitude. I’m really struggling with how to feel about productivity and even just living life. There isn’t any place to go anymore, and even though I live out in the country, getting out and just being around people has been important to my mental health.

Even if anything was open, which it’s not other than grocery stores and gas stations, I know that venturing out and being around people would be irresponsible. So I’m cocooning.

I don’t know how I’m coping exactly other than by doing silly little things. I made a snowman the other. Gave him a scarf, eyes, reading glasses, and little carrot nose.

I shoveled the neighbor’s drive, without any closer contact than talking to her through a glass door, of course.

Tomorrow morning I’m baking cinnamon rolls, and God damn it I’m eating as many as I want.

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James Finn
James Finn

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James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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