Oh, wow... so here we are NINE YEARS LATER. I was reading the blog of an author whose super fun series I just finished, hoping to find news of a sequel in the works, when a click on the top of the page brought me here, to my old, mostly forgotten, blog/friend.
My how times have changed. And not changed. We all know that the year 2020 pretty much reduced much of our collective American experience to ashes. Partially due to the effects of four years of he who will not be named, (the orange guy), the screaming, howling rebirth of the fight for the acknowledgement and correction of racial injustice, global climate change, and last but certainly not least the pandemic that has brought the entire world to it's knees. In America, many, if not most of us have had the opportunity to ignore sickness, prejudice, and extreme poverty. We putter along on our little path secure in the knowledge that " the higher powers", with some hiccups, will keep us steady and safe and Science knows and can fix pretty much everything. Am I right?
At the same time as the bigger world is struggling with the knowledge that these things we late boomers grew up believing were sovereign truths and could therefore be taken for granted in fact cannot be, my personal world has remained more or less unchanged in that I live in the same place with the same maniac, and work at the same job. The pandemic forces us to limit exposure and interaction, and so my perception of time has become increasingly askew. I have sat out my middle years, riding out the hormonal hemorrhage of perimenopause, and so, have awakened into this tumultuous era with my young adult attitudes and a senior's joints and attention span. And now, I must leave us to ruminate on that conundrum, and ready myself to go to work on my day off. Again. TTFN
