... 1. Plinths and ornaments; a cavalcade of bookshelves. The pulsing energy of continuity: e-learning mornings. Rose, in headphones: jumping jacks. She smacks a stack of paper loose, to the hardwood. A handful of pencils, scraps. Their grade two calisthenics routine. They shake their sillies out. Across the living room, Aoife shifts and re-shifts zoom backgrounds: outer space, blue cloudscape, a temperament of snow. She responds, when challenged: My teacher taught me. Junior kindergarten sight words, reading: the, a, she. A writing grid of nine, for Bingo, before they launch into a story of a springtime frog. The blank space of theoretical clarity. 2. Home, home. We are home. We are endlessly, truly home. Isolating daily rounds of paired coffee, corner office margins. Scoped and paired, these opposites rarely meet. Two positives c...