that moment when you and a friend are about to hug for the first time in over a year, but you both check in first to make sure it’s ok with the other person, and it is ok, and the hug happens. it’s beautiful.

Last spring, I remember saying how I lost my ability to believe that the future would actually happen. Things became so uncertain, and then we just lived with that low hum of uncertainty. And yesterday I booked plane tickets for a wedding in the fall and found myself thinking “but who knows what the world will look like then” and had to say, wait, the future is happening again. I am trying to remember how to trust that the future will happen. Slowly, slowly.

My son graduated high school and the principal remarked in his speech that they still managed several socially distanced senior pranks. They put a huge “for sale” sign in front of the school with his cell phone number on it. Ha!