the bifurcated life

Vaccination

I am torn. In a way, I long for New York, to be with my peeps as the planet culls. But I have peeps everywhere. Today I talked to Chien-Chi, stuck in Austria and suffering even more racism than usual. I talked to Donna, stuck in New York City but rather enjoying a forced timeout for creative work. I emailed with Jed, trying to make it through customs from Mexico in Houston. Shared black humor with friends in the Ozarks and Sausalito. Texted with Hannah, for whom life has utterly changed, with school cancelled and business disrupted—and of course the background that we're all dealing with: the threat of death sooner rather than later. Then I texted with friends here on Kauai, for whom the reality of two cases on-island has not sunk in. At all.
  What do I do? I will take the advice I gave Hannah earlier: Stay light on your feet, do your best, and be ready to change plans.
  

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