Item

Visiting Home

Title (Dublin Core)

Visiting Home

Disclaimer (Dublin Core)

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Description (Dublin Core)

I live relatively close to the home where I grew up in Belmont, Massachusetts which is about 10 minutes outside of Boston. It’s a simple home where six of us shared a bathroom and thought nothing of it! My parents, one of whom just hit ninety years old, still reside in our home and never plan to leave with my mother asserting that she will only leave on a gurney. My parents now feel essentially locked in due to the pandemic which makes visiting, which I did this weekend, both more important but unnatural in some ways. We are Italian, for the most part, and Italians are a touchy group, always hugging, which in my family is our non-verbal communication of love.
With the risks involved with close contact there is no more hugging, and it’s hard to even want to express ourselves to these 90 year old's with a tacky elbow tap or fist bump. Verbal expression has been temporarily substituted but it is an inadequate alternative and will never replace the connection one feels from a sincere and long held hug.

Date (Dublin Core)

January 9, 2021

Creator (Dublin Core)

Joseph S Scordino

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Joseph S Scordino

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST643

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

text story

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Emotion
English Home & Family Life
English Social Distance

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

Belmont
Massachusetts
locked in
elbow tap
fist bump

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

hugs
touch
love
sensory history

Collection (Dublin Core)

Over 60

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Sensory history submissions and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Curatorial Notes (Dublin Core)

David Holden
Added Screenshot to Article. DH 09/03/2022

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

01/10/2021

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

01/20/2021
09/03/2022
06/27/2023
10/16/2023

Item sets

Covid 19
Arizona State University

This item was submitted on January 10, 2021 by Joseph S Scordino using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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