Esther Garcia

The Guacamole Police

The quarantine days sometimes fly by, and other times move very slowly. I wake up, lounge around in bed for a while and eventually get up to make coffee. I’m working from home, and I’m grateful for my job and that I’m not living alone. I spend the days with my pup, Garth, which gets lonely because he isn’t much of a conversationalist, but then my boyfriend Allen comes home from work and everything is OK again.

One record I’ve been listening to almost everyday is Helado Negro’s “This is How You Smile.” The song “Imagining What We Do” is about winter and not knowing when it will end. At least, I think that’s what it’s about. “‘Cause it’s cold and hard to remember what the sun feels like. And it’s okay to cry when it feels like it won’t ever come back”. What will life be like when everything goes back to normal? What will normal look like? When is it going to happen?

I read, play my guitar, watch shows and sit around wondering, “What comes next?”