12/ She is a health care professional busting her ass during this time of crisis. She is 19 years old. She is a baby. She is doing enormous and hugely necessary things. She told me she misses our class and that seminar was always the highlight of her week.

13/ She opened and closed her email with profuse apologies for her late classwork.

14/ I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you teach and have been struggling with the decision of whether to let your students off the hook, or give them flexibility, or give them time, or give them anything, I hereby grant you full and enthusiastic permission to do so.

15/ I *do* know who needs to hear this: If you teach and you are being a hard ass right now because you think your students are being lazy and have a bunch of free time on their hands while at home, you are trash, and no one likes you.

16/ Our young students are weird, anxious, confounding, beautiful, resilient little creatures. They are a blessing. Don't take them for granted.

postscript (17/): three cheers and a thousand huzzahs for all you folks out there who are living in these weird times and reveling in new ways to show the people around you, whoever they may be, that they are loved.