Dear Janus:

Your imagination and imagery were always rich and plentiful, especially about nature.

I don’t think it’s accurate to say that we are quarantined, because a quarantine  is “a state of enforced isolation” and our isolation is not enforced.

“social distancing has helped me lessen (anxiety) a bit because I’m not as self-conscious about myself”- imagine lessening your self consciousness after the pandemic, when socializing with people, at the university and elsewhere. There has to be a way for you to do that: to be around people, and be more and more okay with whatever it is that they are thinking about you or of you, (if they do think about you at all!)

anita