Quiet Summer
Traditionally, the season of summer suggests a time of excitement and an enhanced enjoyment of life, when the days seem to last forever. Spellbinding light allows us moments of tranquility to experience a joyful response to nature in this most relaxed of seasons. Yet this year, unlike any other, beneath the quiet calm lies a sense that life has been unhinged and the normal rules no longer apply. We do not know when, if ever, we will feel truly safe again. As we re-emerge, it is as though we are experiencing the moment when disaster and its aftermath have begun to overlap.
Humans are not well designed, it appears, to live in uncertainty. Yet for the first time in over a year, we can reasonably contemplate the future鈥攎ost of us are no longer locked in the perpetual present of long days spent with ourselves or our families. We are able to at least create the illusion of movement in our lives, giving form to a time when the future had appeared to be so shapeless. Though uncertainty continues to reign, the weight of the world feels a little lighter, even if only for a moment.
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Traditionally, the season of summer suggests a time of excitement and an enhanced enjoyment of life, when the days seem to last forever. Spellbinding light allows us moments of tranquility to experience a joyful response to nature in this most relaxed of seasons. Yet this year, unlike any other, beneath the quiet calm lies a sense that life has been unhinged and the normal rules no longer apply. We do not know when, if ever, we will feel truly safe again. As we re-emerge, it is as though we are experiencing the moment when disaster and its aftermath have begun to overlap.
Humans are not well designed, it appears, to live in uncertainty. Yet for the first time in over a year, we can reasonably contemplate the future鈥攎ost of us are no longer locked in the perpetual present of long days spent with ourselves or our families. We are able to at least create the illusion of movement in our lives, giving form to a time when the future had appeared to be so shapeless. Though uncertainty continues to reign, the weight of the world feels a little lighter, even if only for a moment.
