“Just when normal life felt almost possible - when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (the prismatic spray of light through an icicle; the stillness of a sunrise), some small thing would go awry and the veil of optimism was torn away, the barren world revealed. They learned, somehow, to wait those times out. There was no cure, no answer, no reparation.”- David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Project 265: #271
There is a beauty in the stillness of the early morning, and the sunrise after a storm, made even more beautiful by the presence of icicles that sprayed light into the room through their tiny prisms. For just a moment, life stood still, and felt as though things were falling into place. This seems to be the story of our lives at the moment. It feels as though we are on this never-ending treadmill, with little glimmers of hope at a bit of normality every now and again...and just as we start to feel the optimism of normality, and settle in its complacency, something else crops up, disrupting the delicate balance! I do feel that the moments of normality are more frequent than they were a few months ago, and that we will get back to normal life as we knew it! In the meantime, we will just sit and wait, patiently (or not-so patiently), enjoying these special moments of loveliness!
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