everything happens

shall we just leave reason out of it?

Oh, dear ones. Hello. I’m realizing that it’s been five months—five months?!—since I last wrote to you. What happened? While it shouldn’t surprise me much anymore, I continue to be astonished by how much can shift, pivot, emerge in just a few months. Much in my world has been turned on head, elbows, and knees. Ditto “the” world. There’s too much to keep…