I wrote this about a year into the pandemic, back in February of 2021. It’s something I still think about, especially in this season of so much loss: how quickly the world moves on. The Courage to Live It is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
I suppose some people find help and meaning and roots in long paragraphs about ideas, but for me, there is nothing like a tidy story about a little thing to unzip the whole world. Thank you for this.
I suppose some people find help and meaning and roots in long paragraphs about ideas, but for me, there is nothing like a tidy story about a little thing to unzip the whole world. Thank you for this.
This makes me think of the Paul Hostovsky poem “Coconut.”