One year after the pandemic began, I got an email from my doctor's office saying that I now qualify for the vaccine. No explanation why I qualify. When I went to schedule the shot, there were no appointments available. Still I wait.
How would I describe this year?
Painful. Divisive in some ways, yet unifying in others. Worsening all my nightmares. Worsening all my failures. Lost opportunities for my children. New opportunities to learn about humanity.
I walked past an elementary school today. I heard children playing on the playground. That's something I had taken for granted my whole life, children going to school. How strange it is to feel deeply grateful to hear them back at it again.
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