‘I Can Just Be’: 20-Somethings Reflect on A Pandemic Year

Everything has changed and not enough has.

A dusky winter sky of blue and pink, with winter trees at the bottom of the picture, bare of leaves.

As I saw posts commemorating the “pandemic year,” I felt myself growing unsettled when it came to reflection. The COVID-19 crisis didn’t begin when it hit the United States, which means a lot of the anniversary acknowledgement seems to leave out the horrors that occurred earlier in other places. It feels premature to…