For some, it is second nature to practice the most common and essential quarantine protocol: Stay at home. But outside the four walls of our homes are the people failed by the government, crushed and stripped bare by the pandemic. These are the people on the dipping side of the lever, unmistakably losing the battle against all odds.
A funeral, punctuated with technical difficulties and expressions of deep love, reveals the new rituals we are creating in crisis.
As we enter the new normal, the question remains: Is the act of buying products—seeing it, hearing it, smelling it, tasting it, and touching it—an essential aspect of human life? Or are malls, where physical and social contact occurs with products and people, a quaint 20th century anachronism, like vinyl or democracy?
We have become witnesses to a surge of remakes, reboots, and revivals. Now audiences are questioning if Hollywood is running out of original content, and whether recycling old storylines is as detrimental to the industry as some critics have claimed.
Not all heroes wear capes. Do you wish to assist the needs of our frontliners? Here is a list of organizations that you may contribute to in order to help our modern-day heroes.
Insecurities are hard to ignore. They can target us at the most unexpected of times and trap us in a vicious cycle of self-loathing. To get out of that cave is a process, but it can be done.