paging fanboi goobster I began this article with an "ugh, who cares about what pop culture thought", but my attitude turned around as she went on and as her writing resonated more. Been meaning to read Solnit's book about people coming together in disaster for a while now. Anyone read it perchance?It’s the end of the world as we know it, and everything does feel fine—not fine like chill, but fine like china, like glass, like thread. Everything feels so fine, and so fragile, and so shockingly worth saving.
I have a different take from the author. I don't see things as "fine" and "worth saving", I see 40% of my life one month ago being completely irrelevant and undesirable. Shit I'm going to jettison as soon as a I can muster enough care and energy to actually do something. I'm shit at keeping in touch. My wife is constantly telling me about conversations she is having with people I genuinely love, but haven't spoken to in a year or more. We will get together with friends and have a beautiful time... and then I never contact them again. That shit right there? That's gonna change. Buying stuff instead of making it? Like food? Yeah. That's gonna change. There is a LOT of Life Before Covid that is best left in the past. I'm looking forward to 6-9 months from now, when life is "back to normal" but "normal" is significantly different and more intentional than Life Before.