Self Isolation and Quarantine Coffee

The past few weeks have been crazy. My family, as well as everyone else, have had their lives, careers, and goals upended by this virus. All of my upcoming shoots have been canceled along with our children's schools. For who knows, how long?

Overwhelmed by all that was happening, I had hoped to use this time to pump out new content from home for IG and this site. But that hasn't happened quite yet.

What has happened? Well, we have been slowly adjusting to this new life of having two children at home full time. Homeschooling our daughter and trying to keep our stress levels down hasn't been easy. But we're here, so we're taking day by day.

I know we're not alone in this transition; the entire world is affected by this. But once you enter into 'self-isolation' and limit your contact with others, your world becomes rather small. Well, small but LOUD with a two-year-old and a five-year-old stuck inside most days. Extra screen time and fort building help.

Thankfully, I have friends that I can confide in on my anxieties for not only the future of the photo industry but small things like having to stand in lines to enter an almost empty grocery store to get food for my family. All the while, not wanting to bring the virus back home with me.

As we enter our second week of this new - stay at home - life, we have implemented a daily schedule. Fo not only do we have to homeschool our daughter, my wife only has a small window of time to complete her dissertation to receive her Ph.D. So yeah, it's time for us to get out of this - almost dread induced funk and get back to work.

If I am honest, I have had to allow some grace for myself. I am a very driven person and am always setting daily to-do lists, goals, reminders, and whatnot. It's been hard yet so inspiring to see so many creators online, posting IG Live interviews (that will come soon...) and creating all forms of work within their space. In a perfect world, I would be creating nonstop, but in my reality - I'm dealing with our kids arguing over the simplest of things, making snacks or cleaning.

I do plan on creating - and hope to begin doing so soon, but I had to release myself from that pressure at first so that I didn't feel like a failure. That's been harder than expected. But I'm getting there.

V60 Method

Coffee: YES PLZ Week #68
Ratio: 26g coffee x 450g water
Grind Setting: 13 on the Baratza Virtuoso