A Moment

I found this waiting as a saved draft that I never posted. We always think of our lives now from the view of pre-pandemic and post-pandemic. So, in that spirit:

The world around us has changed so profoundly that I can only hope we all learn its lesson. What lesson you learn is entirely up to you.

From the time during which we were conceived, to the neighborhood in which we grew up, to the state of your life when your eyes blearily pulled apart on January 1, 2020—we are swimming in new waters.

Once spring weather finally came, my quarantine buddy and I could not get enough sun. Her shop downtown closed for a couple of months and my freelance jobs and music performances dried up. We converged each morning in my backyard to let our puppies play and we consistently moved our chairs out of the cold shadows and into the sunshine, desperate, desperate for the warmth. We hunted for morels on her family farm (found a few), let the dogs play in the creek, and ticks be damned, we roamed every inch of the property. We had our morning walk routine, with the cold brew coffee and catch-up afterward and then went on about our day and put together some semblance of “work.”