Transitions
The first anniversary of anything is a big deal, right? A wedding, a baby’s birth, buying a home -- these events drop pins in space and time, guiding us back to reminisce with the clarity, tenderness and grace only time provides. This week has brought us to a new first anniversary, the beginning of the Covid 19 pandemic, and how one year ago our lives were utterly transformed in a matter of days. I remember zooming into a meeting with the TNS staff, discussing the best way to serve our students while the safer at home orders were in place. NONE of us anticipated that a full year later we would still be offering zoom lessons, and that our lexicon would grow to include words like social distancing, quarantine, distance learning, and essential worker. Yet a year later, the vocabulary is here to stay, we’ve learned myriad lessons along the way, and finally, we see a faint flicker of hope on the horizon. As more people get vaccinated and cases trend down, we will face another transition-