How are you doing these days, friends? As 2020 draws to a close… it feels like everyone wants to sum it up somehow. Useless!
I stayed home a lot more this year. I made a lot of drawings. I cooked a lot of food. With all — ALL — the things happening this year, it felt kinda like being in a hurricane except that I’ve never been in one, so it’s really more like what I imagine that must be like. I’ve been in plenty of earthquakes… those are totally different. A short sharp shock, relatively, and then it’s over. You have room to survey the damage, assess, move to safety, pick up toppled items and sweep up broken glass, etc etc etc. There’s always the probability that another one will follow quickly on its heels, but now you’re prepared. Passing traffic will raise the hairs on the back of your neck. You brace yourself for the next one.
So maybe 2020 is more like a very very slow slow slow motion earthquake… all I know is, it’s still shaking. And I’ve been lucky enough so far to be under a pretty sturdy desk. So far.
Whoever you are, I wish you a sturdy desk too. Hold on during all this shaking. Let’s see what happens next. Someday we’ll get to pause, sweep up the broken glass, and look around cautiously at our new world.
Mandana Khoshnevisan 