In the Time of Covid

Anne Pollard
8 min readFeb 4, 2021

Episode Three: Feast Your Eyes on This — What Optimal Adoptive Parenting and Amulets Against the Evil Eye Have in Common

Alerting all Freedom of Expression Advocates and Glass Bead Aficionados: Turkey’s state-run religious authority, the Diyanet, has just proclaimed blue eye-shaped glass amulets prohibited under Islam.

Alerting all Islamophobes or Extremists of Any Ilk: this is not an anti-Islamic rant. Not. At. All.

Alerting all Parents, Adoptive or Otherwise: this concerns you.

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Anne Pollard

I write. I read. I raise children. I rattle the bushes. I stand on hillsides outside Florence and shout, "Beauty!"