New Normals

Pandemic reflections: The loss of control was the worst. The unpredictability. It felt like jail, like prison. I couldn’t shake the feeling. But I realized that the “new normal” includes a certain level of moderate unpredictability. It’s not the kind of unpredictability we felt in March, panic buying groceries because of the impending apocalypse. It’s a baseline level of moderate unpredictability that is somewhat predictable. I guess that’s comforting.