I was lucky enough to get to sleep in again this morning! Keely bounded up on my bed at around 6 am but then she flopped onto my legs and went back to sleep. I can take a hint, so I did the same!
When we finally got out to walk at 8 am-ish, it was sunny and a few degrees warmer, at 43°F, so I decided to go to Lafayette Park off Thomasville Rd. which is usually a few degrees cooler due to all the tree cover. Snapped this pic of my pretty brown eyed girl there:
As we march up to the one year anniversary of Pandemic Lockdown, which in Tallahassee started on March 18th, I mark the changes in Midtown such as closed businesses and signs proudly proclaiming which businesses got business loans just to survive (banks are predators, FYI).
Ostensibly nothing has drastically changed, and my employer (Florida State University) is preaching the gospel of “everything will return to normal in the Fall!” which, hey, is what they were saying last March too. I’m not sure how “back to normal” anything is going to be, though, given that so many things have drastically changed under the hood of our society.
Pandemic and Republican insurrection (wtf) and working from home and Zoom and ghost kitchens and remote classrooms and…
It was a nice walk, but as I looked up at the trees in the park, swaying and timeless, I really felt the passage of time for a moment.