I have an increased sense of urgency. I don’t think it comes from anxiety about how short my life might be. Rather, it’s just the tedious days of 2020 that all blur together to become a very long single…Tuesday, or something. I’ll probably be in the last group to be vaccinated, so there’s months more of staying at home to get through.
Right now, it almost feels like there’s just a few very important items on my list. I want to hug the people I love. I want to interact with animals. Ride a plane, write a book. And I want to go to one of those giant indoor pools with slides and saunas and caves of trickling water, chlorinated and heated to perfection.