A Report from the After Times
11 min readApr 11, 2021
Normal is never coming back. We’ve got to be gentle with each other.
This is a dispatch from another planet.
For millions of people, for the rest of this mad, sad year, the world will return in pieces. Instead of remembering lasts we will start counting firsts. The first day the kids went to school. The first time you went to a bar. The first time you went to a bar and it felt normal…