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Collected Item: “Finding Beauty in a COVID World”

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Finding Beauty in a COVID World

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In this series my goal was to share how I found beauty this summer, despite everything happening right now in the United States. This collection of photos serves as a reminder for me that although things are not normal and probably won't be for a long time, there is such immense beauty that exists in this world. If it weren't for COVID and losing my job I would not have experienced many of these moments that I captured in these pictures. Perhaps the silver lining of COVID is that for a lot of us, it has forced us to literally sit back and reflect and these photos illustrate the "COVID-friendly" activities I chose to do this summer with all my free time. Some of these photos are some scenic landscapes in NYC, where I live. The rest of these images are from various scenic places throughout the country, mostly in the West, where I began my road trip back to New York City a few weeks ago.

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#COVID #FordhamUniversity #SOCI2960 #pandemic #NewYorkCity #Colorado #SaltLakeCity #Kansas #Nature #Beauty #NYC #pandemicsummer

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Greta Weinrich

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2020-07
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