The pandemic has deeply shaken the foundations of life as we know it. There has been a tremendous amount of headache, heartache, and loss. Also, some overdue and vital reckonings.
While it’s tempting to yearn for a time when we had a firm foundation, I ask myself the unsettling question, was there ever really a time? Or is groundlessness the unsettling, but true, nature of things? Maybe the best we can do is pay attention. For me, the camera is a magical wand of attention. It grants me needed doses of focus and perspective. It helps me stay attuned to finding moments of joy.
Confession, I don’t believe in the American Dream, and well before the pandemic, I felt that living as isolated nuclear families was unhealthy. Now, we are just at a whole new level of unhealthy. Raising children alone, is quite simply put, LONELY.
We are all in need of magic wands.
May you find your own magic wand. Use it well, and often. And maybe even momentarily hand it off to another, in order to get some perspective on your own self. .
