Things They Are a Changing

Pandemic. Before the schools closed in March, the teachers told the kids "you're living in history right now." The kids kind of rolled their eyes and moved on. The schools closed and we attempted to home school for three months. No one was prepared for that, no one. Finally, three months after closing, the schools have figured out how to give our kids' belongings back to them, drive-through style.

The fireworks started in April. Almost every night, someone's lighting off fireworks in the neighborhood. At first we ran outside to try to catch a glimpse of the show. Now, in June, it's just another sound of everyday life. Traffic, airplanes, sirens, fireworks.

Everything is cancelled, further and further out. Easter was celebrated in parking lots at churches because no one's allowed to go inside in big crowds. Graduations, proms, sports.  All the sports. 2020 Olympics. Scout camp in June, fireworks in July, all the Roller Derby stuff. One by one, deeper and deeper into the year, we cancel it all. State Fair. Family gatherings, tea parties, birthday gatherings. School? What about school in the fall? I'm seeing notifications on FB pages that things like the local theater guild are cancelling everything through the rest of this year. International Tea Festival in November. Christmas parade and tree lighting ceremony. 

I wonder what the New Normal will be.