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Author Insight
The Isolation: It's Wearing On Us, Isn't It
I have talked before about the passage in this book where Shannon is left alone for a time floating in the emptiness of an atom that for her has become a huge space in which she travels long distances. Like Shannon, we've been left alone and isolated during the shut down. I imagine many of you feel as Shannon must have in this passage. Even though we know everyone is out there somewhere, our friends, our acquaintances, our clients, our coworkers, store clerks, all of them--they might as well be gone because we can't see, feel, touch, know them right now. I am sorry if this isolation is wearing on you. It would be good to recognize that some damage is being done here. Damage that you will need to be aware of and attend to when we have our people back again. It looks as though slowly, slowly, we may be coming out of our isolation, at least for now. Let's hope so. Let's go slowly, and celebrate each person, each place we get back.
Book Excerpt
Power Multiplied
Time passed slowly.
Lonely, slow time.
No sound except her own breathing. Silence never sounded so cold. No scent, no stirring of faint breeze, no stimulus of any kind, except that she could still smell her own mysterious scent, hear her own voice, feel the soft smoothness of her braid.
In all that great expanse around her, there was no one. No one at all.
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