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amazing that we've been doing this for over a year now. Since the pandemic began, the Allen family has been writing, drawing, sharing. The March 15 2020 we agreed to just start jotting some notes notes that stretch across more than 90 ft of wall space in Jeff and Lana's Silver Spring home. They detailed feelings, frustrations and triumphs, a therapeutic form of expression known as the tunnel. What would lead you to the tunnel whenever you have a thought or an idea or a feeling that you wanted to record? And it started here, 12 year old Wyatt says the tunnel has helped him move through the challenges of isolation and online learning. Some days they have a really something, and I have it in my mind. But if I put it on the tunnel, I couldn't get it out of my head. A project that documents dark moments like the mounting covid death count. It was also about people who we noted that we that we lost as well as brighter experiences like precious time spent together, because I can express feelings whether it's happy, sad, angry, The alums plan to keep expanding the tunnel until the pandemic ends and hope. Their idea encourages others to create a tunnel of their own, something that could be applied not just during pandemic settings, but anytime or anyplace. People are in a setting where there is uncertainty, a way to channel emotions to document history and move from darkness to light. We are starting to see the light at the end of our tunnel.