Who’s Got the Manual?

It’s been a rough stretch for all of us. Some have clearly suffered more than others, and I’ve mostly been spared the worst. I was privileged to be isolated, even if I complained about my isolation. Out of the now-600,000 Americans who died of COVID, none were my immediate family members.

And, now, it seems like a time to look forward. We’re wondering what it means to emerge from isolation. We’ve said we want to “get back to normal” even though we also say we want a fresh start, a new beginning — not just going back to what was. We want to go forward to…uh, well, we want to go forward.

The problem is, we don’t know where we’re going….