That’s when we realize that we’re on to something here. Days are long and your time is more than enough – there are no deals to close, no contracts to review, no meetings to schedule, no hearings to attend to. It’s dangerous when two energetic go-getters suddenly have nothing to do.
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It’s either because the lockdown situation has taken a toll on us or we just have too much free time to invest our feelings in petty arguments. Neither one of us would concede very easily. Sometimes it feels like we’re already like one of those old married couples.įor example, we sometimes get into phone conversations that start with a harmless ‘What should we watch on Netflix?’ but would somehow evolve into heated debates because of the polarity of some of our views. But the pandemic has somehow sped up the getting-to-know process. The first few months of a relationship is supposed to be the honeymoon phase. We continued to make our relationship work by calling each other everyday. How would this do for our careers and our relationship? Like everyone else, we’re just as confused. His plans to move his law practice to Cebu were derailed. All plans postponed.īecause of the pandemic, business operations have ceased. Of course, the world had different plans.Ī day before my boyfriend Ken is supposed to fly to Cebu, the nationwide lockdown (also known as Enhanced Community Quarantine) was issued. Long-distance is tough, but we had plans to close the gap and move his law practice to my city by mid-year. I’m currently based in Cebu doing business, while he is practicing law in Manila. Take it from me, someone who just started a new relationship at the start of this year. It’s especially hard on new relationships. Young couples are apart and not allowed to see each other. It’s all over the news and Twitter feeds – divorce rates are spiking, people are breaking up, married couples are on each other’s throats being indoors and together 24/7. Ultimately Hurston was wasted by the program “t kept her alive but squandered her talents and demeaned her with a low rank.Did you know that COVID-19 is not only taking lives but it’s killing relationships as well? This led to debates about depicting raw historical events - especially racial violence against Black communities in the South. This meant employing women and Black writers like Zora Neale Hurston, the anthropologist who studied the folklore and music traditions of the Deep South - leading to the publication of her classic Their Eyes Were Watching God.Īs Borchert writes,”If the New Deal rested on three visible pillars - immediate economic recovery, deeper social and economic reform, and a realignment of the political landscape - then collaboration with the racial structure of the South was a shadowy fourth pillar.” Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Zora Neale Hurston Papers/Special and Area Studies Collections/George A. Hurston at a book fair in Rockefeller Center. The rights of the common man, a chorus of American voices. The program was overseen by journalist Henry Alsberg, a penpal of Emma Goldman and a Greenwich Village theater producer who pulled together an extraordinary array of talent that collectively produced a poetic embodiment of the New Deal spirit. Some were affiliated with the Communist Party (when that was obviously a less radioactive association) or left-leaning journals that would easily call the entire project into question in today’s political environment. The personalities involved were control freaks, wanderers and raging drunks. Republic of Detours peers into the production process of several state guides - and New York City, which was treated like its own state by the program.