A good friend.
A trip to the restaurant.
A handshake.
Holding the door for someone coming from behind.
Saying “Good Morning” (w/out a mask).
Our sanity in an otherwise normal election.
Civility and unity.
Raising our arms for TSA’s metal detectors.
Browsing at a bookstore leisurely.
Just breathing in public unhindered and w/out being paranoid.
A trip to the shores.
A group picture of soon-to-be old men.
More trips to hotels, theme parks and cinemas.
Dressing up even just for a funeral.
All we have gained is weight.
Hand soap (Purell) and toilet papers rise to the top of our groceries list.
Homebound. Trying to stop morbid thoughts e.g. the last machine we interact with is the oxygen tank.
No, thank you. I will stick with my laptop, laboring on my last blog….like in Amadeus, with Mozart and his last stanza envisioning his funeral….
The thing we lost in 2020: our normalizing death.
Thang Nguyen 555 