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We Are Always Learning About Love

Writing

Spring is the perfect time to learn to love. When the world wakes up and blooms after a long winter, turning our gardens and neighborhoods pastel shades of pink and green, it’s hard to not feel our hearts blooming, too. But this year, echoing our (zoom) seders of just last week, is different than all other years. Learning to love looks different from inside our houses and apartments than it does in parks, in coffee shops, in classrooms. Love, so often shown with a hug or a brunch date, is now shifted to the domains of virtual happy hours or simultaneously making a recipe with a friend, or doing a yoga class, miles apart. Our isolation has us longing for a revival of Facebook pokes, both for the nostalgia (chain Instagram challenges, anyone?) and the physical contact.

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It Just Needs a Little Love

Writing

By Rachel Barcelona

Christmas is one of those holidays for me that has the power to transport. When I think of Christmas, I can picture my grandmother, all five feet of her, whisking around her kitchen, preparing for our family’s much-anticipated traditional Italian dinner. Even now, I can taste the fresh seafood salad with its tangy lime juice and crunchy celery, and how Christmas leftovers were nearly always better than eating them the first time around. I think of the silly singing Santa Clause in the corner of my grandparent’s living room and how I would make him sing “Jingle Bell Rock” until the batteries ran out. I think of the year my cousins brought five types of eggnog for us to try even though no one in my family even liked eggnog. I think of my aunt’s famous “death by chocolate” dessert that my brother and I would specifically save room for so that we could eat at least two helpings. 

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