Mónica de la Torre, Pause the Document
An attempt, not always successful, to capture some of the feeling of 2020 and 2021. Some of my 2020 and 2021:
1. Spring is tricky here: it can be below freezing into April, it can hit 80° and stay there in March. In 2020 and 2021 we had long, cool, wet springs that lasted until May. Being able to be outside meant everything.
2. I took the dog for a walk one day in early 2020 and realized I knew where everyone in my neighborhood was, a thing otherwise impossible: they were all at home, just like me.
3. In March of 2020 either right before or right after everything shut down I was taking a walk in the middle of the day and ran across another person, going the other way, who was praying aloud in a clear but not shouting voice for the protection of everyone in our neighborhood. I am not one for ostentatious public displays of religion (pray to your father in secret etc etc), but I don't know that I have ever been more grateful for a stranger to pray for me.
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