Deep Quarantine
Happy belated new year! Looking back on 2020, JK ha ha ha. I’m definitely not doing a post like that, because what is there to say? All I’ll say about 2020 is this: never in my life have I felt the energetic pull of a force beyond myself--someone or something taking our human-scale momentum and giving it a kind of superpower. A cosmic open door. Andrew argues that we did it all, that it was our decisions and our actions that got us to this next chapter, but to this I say--Let go and let God. Jesus take the wheel. “Want to know how to make God laugh? Make a plan.” Kidding. I don’t actually say these things unless I want to make Andrew laugh uneasily, unsure whether these are deeply ingrained Catholic things he shouldn’t make fun of. Anyhoo. Here we are. Remember when I used to title my blog posts with “Quarantine: [date]“? That was cute. That was back when it seemed like lockdown was something temporary, when I was convinced of the importance of recording how we spent our days because i