COVID Hasn't Frozen Time
I looked up today after having my head 'down'... (for 7 months!!!) ...quietly escaping into the natural wilderness, or staring at my computer screen and living on Zoom, Google Meets, Skype, and FaceTime. Inside my mind the word has felt halted, like a really long snow day: an unexpected pause in time. Unfortunately, time doesn't actually pause. When we put our heads down to focus, to hide ourselves, to survive, etc., time continues. Life continues. We may pause, but the rest of the universe is still in motion. Even our atoms are ageing (or, rather, decaying). It's strange, though, to think about HOW the world is changing around us when we really can't see it moving. After COVID, things can't go back to 'normal' because life doesn't pause, and 'normal' only exists in the expected. We have no way to prepare our minds for all the changes that will have taken place in these 7 or 10 or 14 months we live in isolation. Mar...