Friday, May 15, 2020

I really loved these...good on The Tyee!


Thank you, Tyee readers, for unleashing that inner cartographer that lives in all of us and charting what your lockdown life looks like now, from canine territory to the crowded “mask zones” of your communities.



A few weeks ago, inspired by a recent CityLab experiment, we asked you to send us a handmade map of your life today. And you delivered.
Many of you seem to be living in a Groundhog Day as you repeat the same routines over and over again. One reader drew Email Hell, where visitors are doomed to read “Hope you are well!” for the umpteenth time. Another is measuring time with toilet paper.
But there are also pleasures to be found in the time of a pandemic, whether in relative solitude, such as admiring the dandelions with young ones, or embracing what pleasures are available, such as diving into what one of you called the “snack vortex. 
Here are the maps:






For the commentary on the "maps" and more maps:
https://thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/2020/05/13/Pandemic-Geographic-Tyee-Readers-Map-New-Worlds/?utm_source=national&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=140520