What's to come

We cannot go back, but we can go forward

Is it me, or does the uncertainty of our time continue to loom over us bigger than many of us have personally experienced in our life? More than ever we realize not only do we belong to each other, but we literally hold each other’s lives in our hands. And all too often, we have been careless and cavelier with the lives of those outside our immediate circle, something we can see all too easily in recent events and the way too many people have treated the pandemic.

I hear people talk about “getting back to normal” and on one level I know they mean just being able to go out and do things again, gather with friends, catch-up over coffee perhaps in person, things we took for granted. But in another sense that normal is forever gone and we cannot get it back. From the standpoint of how many people are missing due to criminal negligence and mismanagement of the pandemic at the state (in some cases) and federal level, we cannot go back. And from the standpoint of the existing injustices this…