so, this was from the first summer of “the pandemic” – summer 2020
i don’t know what to say really “happened” past a feeling of things being in flux.
i was laid off my gig at ibm. so, i think i remember being stressed quite a lot. i remember bounding between “huh, how ’bout that?” to “meh, this is fine.” all the way to “good goddamn my life is falling apart.”
you’ll be happy to know it didn’t. or, i don’t know… will you?
in any case, it didn’t. i studied a lot, i did a lot of things behind the scenes that would bore you to tears, then i eventually found someone else who would pay for my services. hooray for not contributing to black unemployment, i guess.
and somewhere in there i decided to take this stuff more seriously. THIS stuff; the stuff you’re viewing and reading right now.
for a year – about a year – it’s been real… quiet. new york has. and you kind of get that from these pics i used to take on my daily walks around the neighborhood and sometimes all the way to fort greene park.
it’s still a big city with a lot of people, but those people are really cautious now.
when i’m writing this is about a month after the first vaccines have started to be administered in the united states. it’s winter (2021), and i already for damn sure wasn’t going outside for any length of time; even if i had the option.
but i do wonder, when it gets walkable outside, if i take these pics again this summer if you’ll see more people. and more unguarded people.
maybe. hope so. i think so.