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Collected Item: “Smiles behind the masks”

Give your story a title.

Smiles behind the masks

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Photograph - Salt Lake City, UT

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

The photograph can be interpreted in many ways. How I interpreted it was how the COVID-19 pandemic help to reunite families who their focus on the American dream. Many families consist of 9-5 jobs, after school activities, and so forth. This leaves many children or other family member feel disconnected, but now with many places shutdown, stay at home orders, and virtual learning families how found that joy and bonding among their family. Interacting and bonding with family while living a joyful life is the true American dream not the cookie cut house with the white picket fence.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

#family
#americandream
#smilesbehindthemasks
#REL101

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Edwin P.

Give this story a date.

2020-10-05
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