See Ovid, 19
A Zen practitioner reflects on transformation in the age of COVID-19.
Taylor Plimpton
Taylor Plimpton is the author of Notes from the Night: A Life After Dark and the editor of The Dreaded Feast: Writers on Enduring the Holidays. His Tricycle articles "Expressing the Inexpressible" and "See Ovid, 19" were selected as Notable Essays in The Best American Essays 2018 and The Best American Essays 2021, respectively. He is a student at the Village Zendo in New York City (www.villagezendo.org).
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