The WBUR Weekender October 10, 2020
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| Good morning,
After I, along with the rest of the world, learned that Cambridge-based poet Louise Glück won the Nobel Prize for Literature, I decided to check out her work.
Her poem "October" really spoke to me.
Once more, the sun rises as it rose in summer;
bounty, balm after violence.
Balm after the leaves have changed, after the fields
have been harvested and turned.
October is usually one of my favorite months — Foliage! Apple picking! Fires in the fireplace! — but the cold and the chill seem to have set in earlier this year. It could be that it's literally just cold out, or it could be that the pandemic has put a chill over everything.
I think for most of us, this year has been exceptionally hard, and facing a New England winter is enough to rattle the hardiest of us. And as cases continue to rise across the country, many fear a second wave of coronavirus cases.
Let us know what you think of WBUR’s previous and current coverage of the coronavirus and life in a pandemic. You can reply to this email or message me at meghan@bu.edu.
P.S. — I don't know about you but sometimes I like a good cry. This Modern Love column did the trick. — Meghan Kelly
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