Pandemic Stories (A Community Art Project)

    "Mom, look at the sky! It's perfect for a picnic!" I shouted excitedly. My mom replied after a second of thought: "coronavirus has started spreading crazily since a week ago, we are gonna stay home a

    I was feeling a little caged in with the stay at home orders. This would be a great time to start a vegetable garden. There was excitement with getting indeterminate tomato plants. A bottomless pot w

    Arbourview Park was finally opened after being closed for many months. It was the first day it opened. Ben and Owen were so happy!

    End of July was the first day my kids and I were gonna enter a shop and buy ice cream and we wore the masks and took a selfie. It was our first day since March 13 th.😭 I actually felt sorry for them

    At the beginning of the pandemic a simple thing like going for a walk made me realize that our lives had changed. This poem came to me during one of those walks.

    The sun still sets in all its beauty even while we're in the midst of a pandemic. Kids still play, laugh and wonder, What will tomorrow bring? Hope my children, it brings hope!

    We're a couple living in Oakville and had our first baby in early March. By the time we left Oakville hospital with our baby, a tiny red-faced bundle in my arms, the lockdown had begun. The mothers I

    The Upstairs Knitting Club Mom told me about her new club in a dream. I had been explaining to her that there was a terrible virus going around, here on Earth (which she called "the Main Floor"), and