Item

Trail Runs

Media

Title (Dublin Core)

Trail Runs

Description (Dublin Core)

A close-knit family can mean a lot of noise, a lot of home cooking, and a lot of downright work. Care in a large family doesn’t understand the word pandemic or isolation; it only understands that you’re there or you’re not. COVID meant to my family the opposite of what it meant to everyone else on the planet, we would need to be physically closer to help care for those who need it. Instead of focusing on the smells and noises caring for others, I choose to remember the feel of damp earth under my feet and the smell of new ferns in the forest. I remember the whisper of water in the creek signaling the halfway point on Thursdays or the smell of the rainwater pond at the end of Tuesday. I can laugh at the smell of a wet dog; who got into both and had to be bathed twice a week for the entire summer. We took turns going for morning runs or hikes so that one person would always be home with my grandparents. My grandfather was needing more and more supervision daily that my grandmother couldn’t handle on her own. Ironically enough without COVID, we wouldn’t have been able to do the things we did. Now, instead of remembering the smell of hand sanitizer; I remember the clean air in my lungs and the smell of the trail on those morning runs in northern Arizona.

I have downloaded a sound effect from https://www.freesoundslibrary.com/mountain-river-sounds/ that reminds me of one of the places I went to get away from the chaos of COVID.

Date (Dublin Core)

May 28, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

SPANAC

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Corey Ann Fitzpatrick

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST643

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

text story

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

https://www.freesoundslibrary.com/mountain-river-sounds/
https://web.archive.org/web/20210204155946/https://www.freesoundslibrary.com/mountain-river-sounds/

Source (Dublin Core)

Free Sounds Library

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Home & Family Life
English Recreation & Leisure

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

family
forest
smell
touch
summer
grandparent

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

sensory history

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Sensory history submissions and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

01/11/2021

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

02/03/2021

Date Created (Dublin Core)

10/01/2021

Item sets

Covid 19
Arizona State University

This item was submitted on January 11, 2021 by Corey Ann Fitzpatrick 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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