We’re officially three weekends into freedom and what are you feeling? A bit like that old Ontario tourism campaign – “Friendly, Familiar, Foreign and Near?” Me too. Shaking hands, which I took to be a universal human gesture, feels odd and awkward. Clearing the deck of old habits, unfriendly friends, extra calories and streaming - they’re all my big things now. My habitual reads used to be the Saturday
This new normal is a tough thing. From a New Yorker cartoon (and I paraphrase) Everything is open! But so many people! The NYT Ethicist says someone unvaccinated shouldn’t be excluded from a gathering. We mostly don’t know if someone is or isn’t. Is it appropriate to ask?
I have ingested more print and film these past 19 months than I have in the previous 67 years- will that diminish as the physical gates open? How much is too much? How little is too little?
This new normal is a tough thing. From a New Yorker cartoon (and I paraphrase) Everything is open! But so many people! The NYT Ethicist says someone unvaccinated shouldn’t be excluded from a gathering. We mostly don’t know if someone is or isn’t. Is it appropriate to ask?
I have ingested more print and film these past 19 months than I have in the previous 67 years- will that diminish as the physical gates open? How much is too much? How little is too little?