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DaN McKee 8/31/20 DaN McKee 8/31/20

To Bury Me Alive Again

“I am not merely returning to work tomorrow, I and all other teachers across the country are returning to be pawns in a political stunt that will put much of the country at great risk under the propagandist illusion of a moral imperative to get children back in school.”

DaN McKee 8/29/20 DaN McKee 8/29/20

Scene Through A Windscreen

“In March, for a few weeks, we saw a glimpse of our potential. That glimpse scared those in charge, and they are desperate to get things back to the way they were so we don’t get any funny ideas about restructuring our lives to be more focused on people instead of profits.”

DaN McKee 8/24/20 DaN McKee 8/24/20

The Fading Illusions of a Former World

“these last five months has allowed some of those illusions to fall apart when juxtaposed against the big new question: but is it worth risking Covid for?”

DaN McKee 8/17/20 DaN McKee 8/17/20

Getting a Tattoo in the Time of Covid

“So why the tattoo? Why go to a place in close quarters with other people (albeit masked and visored) and let them cut you open, giving yourself an open wound and adding the possibility of other infection to the list of pre-existing risks in your life and risk Covid in the process? Honestly, the answer is a fuck it sense of fatalism brought about by the disregard to my, and all other teacher and students’, health and safety shown by the government.“

DaN McKee 8/15/20 DaN McKee 8/15/20

Ten Years Dead

“Big things and little things - an absence, but an eternal presence also. Present by his lack of presence. A hole in reality, all too noticeable.“

DaN McKee 7/29/20 DaN McKee 7/29/20

Rethinking Kindness

“Kindness in punk didn’t mean smiles and flowers. It wasn’t instagram-vapid and hashtag-ready, it was rough around the edges and sullen. It swore, it was prickly, but its heart was big and definitely in the right place. The song might yell “fuck you” and the fighting in the mosh pit might seem aggressive, but if you needed someone to help you out when the world had turned its back, there was no better place.”

DaN McKee 7/25/20 DaN McKee 7/25/20

Take Me Out To The Ballgame

“I didn’t realise how much I was missing baseball as a part of my Spring and Summer ritual until it came back this weekend.”

DaN McKee 7/24/20 DaN McKee 7/24/20

Juggling

“Of course I knew only too well that looking back at that time period - the summer of 2010 - would also bring with it memories and emails of that horrible August morning the phone rang and a police officer informed me that my dad was dead.“

DaN McKee 7/22/20 DaN McKee 7/22/20

I Was Lost But Now I Am Found

“There are few positive things we can say about Covid 19, but if there is any silver lining to this ever-blackening cloud it is that the world being forced to stop for a few months gave everyone who was able to take advantage of it the opportunity to reflect.”