Through ripple effect, a UW employee's weekly ritual helps others process pandemic losses
Through ripple effect, a UW employeeâs weekly ritual helps others process pandemic losses Last May, when deaths from COVID-19 surpassed 100,000 in the United States, Omar Poler decided he needed to do something to acknowledge the immense loss. He worried that, to many people, the death toll had become just a number â abstract and impersonal. He felt compelled, at least in his own life, not to let that happen. Omar Poler Photo by Nicole Hansen âI wanted to feel a connection to those who had died, to acknowledge their lives,â says Poler, the indigenous education coordinator ...
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