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Deciding to write a pandemic journal with monthly issues featuring essays, short stories, and poems. Describing the background and motivation which led me to embark on this project.

“Introduction”—orienting myself to the era of the Covid-19 pandemic.
“Bus Rides”—essay on taking buses in South County and the riders I have observed.

“Topography of Kingston Hill”—essay on Potter Wood and Biscuit City Preserves.
“Tefft Hill Pilgrimage”—essay on the Tefft Hill stone circle and Old Mountain Field.

South County mills and the rivers and reservoirs that powered them.

Essay on walking the trails of Kingston Hill.

“Onomatopoeia Psalm”—poem
“Calendar Conundrum”—poem
“Buddhist Blasphemy”—essay
“Confucius Confusion”—essay on a changing perception of Confucius in two versions of a poem by my father Alonzo Gibbs.
“Merging”—poem
“Art Will Save Us”—essay on the…

“Invictus Update”—poem.
A romanticized account of Geoffrey Gibbs’s ancestors, especially the Native American Silcock and the ministers Henry Gibbs I, II, and III.

Thoughts on death as perceived by the ancients.
“Epicedium”—poem.
“The Book of Life”—poem about Akhenaten and his wife, Nefertiti.
Essay: “Women Obliterated from History.”

Essay on nature observations in Potter Wood including Triumvirate Rock.
“Patriotism During Pandemic”—poem

Essay about American modernism and ranch architecture of the mid-20th century.
“Regeneration”—poem