{"id":4100,"date":"2021-03-22T08:52:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T12:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=4100"},"modified":"2021-03-22T08:52:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T12:52:59","slug":"outside-my-window-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2021\/03\/22\/outside-my-window-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel\/","title":{"rendered":"Outside My Window &#8211; At the End of the Tunnel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>It\u2019s been a little while \u2013 but this is the next in the \u201cOutside My Window\u201d series -about life during COVID.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">New Mission<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunday was the third day of spring.&nbsp;&nbsp;Jenn and I spent the day working in the back yard; pulling all of the old plants, cutting down the ornamental grasses, cleaning up leftover leaves.&nbsp;&nbsp;It got hot, for the first time since October, shorts and t-shirts and that first cast of sun burn and tan.&nbsp;&nbsp;We cleared off our \u201csun deck\u201d, got the furniture arranged and all of the \u201cstuff\u201d that got stored there over the winter put away.&nbsp;&nbsp;And of course, when we were done, it was a couple of cold ones on the \u201csun deck\u201d in celebration of this first intimation of summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have a new mission.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;One day a week we spend driving all over the state delivering and picking up \u201clost dog\u201d equipment:&nbsp;&nbsp;cameras and live-traps, and also things to help animal rescues.&nbsp;&nbsp;We took five dog houses to Waverly last week to help improve the conditions for some \u201coutdoor\u201d dogs.&nbsp;&nbsp;You know it\u2019s spring:&nbsp;&nbsp;somehow the pickup truck veers towards every high school track as we pass through the small towns of Ohio.&nbsp;&nbsp;The driver, me, just \u201cwants to see\u201d a track practice \u2013 just for a moment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Filling in the Hole&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ll see plenty of high school track soon enough \u2013 with a white shirt, a flag, and a starting pistol.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;April will be full of officiating meets, from middle school dual meets to big invitationals.&nbsp;&nbsp;Memory is a strange thing \u2013 it seems like I did that last year too.&nbsp;&nbsp;Of course, I didn\u2019t.&nbsp;&nbsp;There wasn\u2019t a high school track season last year.&nbsp;&nbsp;All of \u201clast year\u2019s\u201d memories are really from 2019.&nbsp;&nbsp;The \u201chole\u201d of 2020 just gets filled in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is my fourth year out of coaching.\u00a0\u00a0There aren\u2019t any kids I coached still on the high school tracks.\u00a0\u00a0Even the young coaches don\u2019t know me other than as an old official.\u00a0\u00a0But I\u2019ve still got a \u201chand in\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019ve \u201cCovid Coached\u201d a few kids \u2013 using text messages and IPhone videos.\u00a0\u00a0I think we\u2019ve done some good, and it\u2019s been good for me to analyze, discuss and defend my technical positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Zoom<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a year ago this week that I took an \u201conline\u201d substitute teaching job, scrambling along with the regular teachers to figure out how to keep \u201cschool\u201d going in the shutdown.&nbsp;&nbsp;I don\u2019t know that we found a lot of great answers for keeping kids involved in school.&nbsp;&nbsp;But it wasn\u2019t for lack of effort:&nbsp;&nbsp;every teacher I know went far and beyond the \u201ccall of duty\u201d to reach out and keep kids involved.&nbsp;&nbsp;When the world turns upside down, a Zoom class might be the only echo of normalcy in that child\u2019s life.&nbsp;&nbsp;Looking back, how strange to have your teacher literally \u201cin your bedroom\u201d every day.&nbsp;&nbsp;No wonder so many kids set Zoom to audio only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ll be happy to never Zoom again.&nbsp;&nbsp;And now, with vaccines and lessening infections, we are all looking to get back to normal.&nbsp;&nbsp;Normal doesn\u2019t just mean going to a restaurant (last week I sat down in one for the first time in a year), it also means not being \u201caddicted\u201d to 24\/7 television \u201cnews\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;Washington doesn\u2019t demand the need for our attention every day, though there\u2019s still plenty going on.&nbsp;&nbsp;For the first time in several years, we can look away for a moment and focus on our more local life.&nbsp;&nbsp;That\u2019s a good thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Change at the End<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>But there are things unalterably changed by our shared year in pandemic hiding.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Jenn and I picked up a third and a fourth dog.&nbsp;&nbsp;When the yen to go camping hit, we realized that four dogs in our \u201cefficiency camper\u201d wasn\u2019t going to work.&nbsp;&nbsp;Want to buy a 2017 Rockwood Mini-Lite? There\u2019s one for sale in the driveway.&nbsp;&nbsp;It was a lot of fun \u2013 spent a winter in Florida and plenty of time in the fall leaves of Ohio.&nbsp;&nbsp;But now it\u2019s got to go.&nbsp;&nbsp;After it\u2019s sold, we\u2019ll look for a Class A, a bus, where there\u2019s actual rooms and a place for the dogs to get comfortable while we drive.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So here\u2019s a most unusual essay from me.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s about spring, about track, about camping, and about hope.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s about the light at the end of the tunnel.&nbsp;&nbsp;If you\u2019ve never experienced that phrase in real life \u2013 you need to head over to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ohiodnr.gov\/wps\/portal\/gov\/odnr\/go-and-do\/plan-a-visit\/find-a-property\/blackhand-gorge-state-nature-preserve\">Blackhand Gorge<\/a>&nbsp;just east of Newark, Ohio.&nbsp;&nbsp;On the North side of the river, there\u2019s a path through on old railroad tunnel \u2013 a relic of the \u201cInterurban\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;That was a train that used to take you from Columbus to Pataskala, Hebron, Buckeye Lake, Newark, and Zanesville.&nbsp;&nbsp;The tracks are gone, but the carved tunnel through the stone hill remains.&nbsp;&nbsp;Take a walk \u2013 and there in the center, you will fully understand what \u201ca light at the end of the tunnel\u201d means.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can\u2019t really see what\u2019s beyond \u201cthe light\u201d \u2013 you don\u2019t know what the next step you take will reveal.&nbsp;&nbsp;All you can see is the brightness.&nbsp;&nbsp;But there\u2019s one thing for sure. Out of the damp darkness of a century old tunnel, you know that there\u2019s something better at the end.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Outside My Window Series<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2020\/04\/21\/out-my-front-window\/\">Out My Front Window \u2013 Part One<\/a>&nbsp;(4\/21\/20)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2020\/04\/23\/outside-my-window-part-two\/\">Outside My Window \u2013 Part Two<\/a>&nbsp;(4\/23\/20)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2020\/04\/26\/out-my-window-part-3\/\">Outside My Window \u2013 Part Three<\/a>&nbsp;(4\/26\/20)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2020\/05\/13\/out-my-window-part-4\/\">Outside My Window \u2013 Part Four<\/a>&nbsp;(5\/13\/20)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2020\/06\/03\/out-my-window-part-5\/\">Outside My Window \u2013 Part Five<\/a>&nbsp;(6\/3\/20)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2020\/07\/03\/out-my-window-part-six\/\">Outside My Window \u2013 Part Six<\/a>&nbsp;(7\/3\/20)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2020\/07\/31\/outside-my-window-part-seven\/\">Outside My Window \u2013 Part Seven<\/a>&nbsp;(7\/31\/20)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2020\/08\/13\/out-my-window-inshallah\/\">Outside My Window \u2013 Inshallah<\/a>&nbsp;(8\/13\/20)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2020\/09\/15\/outside-my-window-part-eight\/\">Outside My Window \u2013 Part Eight<\/a>&nbsp;(9\/15\/20)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2020\/09\/25\/outside-my-window-part-nine\/\">Outside My Window \u2013 Part Nine<\/a>&nbsp;(9\/25\/20)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2020\/10\/09\/outside-my-window-part-ten\/\">Outside My Window \u2013 Part Ten<\/a>&nbsp;(10\/9\/20)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2020\/11\/29\/outside-my-window-part-11\/\">Outside My Window \u2013 Part 11<\/a>&nbsp;(11\/29\/20)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2020\/12\/16\/post-truth-world\/\">Outside My Window &#8211; Post-Truth World&nbsp;<\/a>(12\/16\/20)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/waiting-for-the-shot\/\">Waiting for the Shot<\/a>&nbsp;(3\/11\/21)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Outside My Window \u2013 At the End of the Tunnel (3\/22\/21)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a little while \u2013 but this is the next in the \u201cOutside My Window\u201d series -about life during COVID. 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