Words matter. All the rhetoric about social distancing when what the scientists meant was physical distancing. Six feet apart (or three, if you're a governor trying to get little kids back in school).
And the upshot of a pandemic year is actual social distancing, too. Old friendships sloughed away like a layer of dead skin. The knowledge that we can only count on ourselves. A time of loneliness, introspection, growth, despair, and determination.
There's still a ways to go so I'm doing my best to hang on and hang in there. An acquaintance tested positive this week and I wanted to weep on their behalf. To make it this far! and no farther.
A business owner told me she was on the fence about getting vaccinated (gah!) but if it was good enough for Dolly Parton, then it was good enough for her (rah!).
We will prevail, a different friend said to me, during some of the darkest times last year. Yes.
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