Slowly around the world we’ve got some amazing events to look forward to. The first hug with our parents, the first meal out with friends, the first drinks in a bar, the first haircut, the first music festival, sporting event, the first day dropping off kids at school, the first flight, the first holiday. Everything from museums to galleries to conferences. We now have an empty calendar, cleared out obligations, we get to put back into our lives what we want to add in, not what we’ve inherited or assumed or did from muscle memory or social pressure. There’s a lot of sadness, a lot of fear and worry, and it’s often well placed, but there is an incredible series of magical simple things we can slowly look forward to and do. And maybe with renewed appreciation.
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