"Inhabiting the San Juan River canyon for a few days feels like an actual merging of place and friendship with a certain deep affinity circulating between the humans and the landscape. It’s an immersion into something that’s equally comforting, awe-inspiring, and joyful," Rosie Carter writes in this personal essay about friendship with place and humans alike.
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I'm guessing you're familiar with this game: if you knew you were going to be stranded on a desert island, what three things would you take with you? I had the thought today that we're all a bit better prepared to answer that question, stranded on our own pandemic islands as we are.
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What happens in your head when a pandemic hits and your world shrinks to the size of your living room and every week brings more news that's scary and heartbreaking all at once and you miss little things you didn't know were so important like running into friends on the street and great big bear hugs? What changes to your brain take place and what hidden part of your mind quietly tries to deal with them so your day-to-day self can go on functioning in a semi-normal kind of way?
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