The Birds Are Singing

How we lived when the virus arrived.

Richard was rereading Streaming Now, and he said, “I think it’s time to look back at the start of the pandemic.” I said, “Why?” He said, “It was the ‘new Now,’ and now it feels like a piece of history. Back then, people thought it was an event that would end. It had a concreteness we don’t have now. The event sort of dissolved, and we’re not sure where …