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We asked writers, artists, photographers to tell us what they learned in quarantine. From learning to play the piano to inventing a new game for their daughters — these are the things our contributors have been doing https://nyti.ms/2TrVSLO ">https://nyti.ms/2TrVSLO&q...

Paolo Pellegrin is a conflict photographer who has been documenting historic events around the world for decades.

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I'm Usually a Conflict Photographer. Now, I'm Documenting My Family.

For the first time in my career I decided not to cover a major event. I'm seeing something more timeless and universal.

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"Quarantine didn’t just take things away; it revealed — with a harsh, unrelenting clarity — what had already been lost," Leslie Jamison writes https://nyti.ms/3cVloAE ">https://nyti.ms/3cVloAE&q...

When the World Went Away, We Made a New One

I lost many things during the quarantine. But there can be an unexpected abundance inside a state of loss.

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During quarantine, the illustrator @abstractsunday found unexpected solace in an old hobby gone rusty: learning how to play the piano https://nyti.ms/3cTaTOj ">https://nyti.ms/3cTaTOj&q...

The Unexpected Solace in Learning to Play Piano

A cartoonist is humbled by the brain power (and finger strength!) needed to play Chopin and Tchaikovsky.

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Playing hours of pretend with her 5-year-old showed the playwright Amy Herzog how coronavirus was re-activating old medical traumas in her family https://nyti.ms/2LLiOkU ">https://nyti.ms/2LLiOkU&q...

How a Game With My Daughter Helped Us Cope With Quarantine and the Past

Playing hours of pretend with my 5-year-old showed me how coronavirus was re-activating old medical traumas in our family.

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