April 15, 2021

Our endless adaptability and resilience as human beings is one of the most inspiring things I’ve witnessed over the last 13 months!

And that’s not to take lightly all the less than inspiring things that have also occurred. But all in all this picture makes me think about adaptation.

It has been 13 months in this funny new world. It has been 6 months that restaurants in Italy have been closed at night. It has been a few weeks since we’ve been able to sit in the burgeoning Spring sunshine and enjoy drinks or meals at tables at any hour of the day.

This picture is a little flashback to February. The Pantheon looks kind of like a green screen backdrop but I promise it isn’t. Also, isn’t that stripe of golden hour sun in the back left corner really beautiful? Anyway. Time. Resilience. Adaptability. There will be more sunshine spritzes and tourism will return and the Pantheon will still be there and I will be here too. The Eternal City feels weird in zona arancione and yet spring is bursting through the cracks in cobblestones and sprinkling the whole city with pink and purple petals. People are taking their to-go lunches on staircases in sunshine and to-go coffee has become kind of a thing for the first ‘real’ time in Italian coffee history. My days are filled with the most bizarre and invigorating assortment of work projects and writing and doing yoga and teaching yoga and reading and long, long walks and pretending to run. They also include virtual tours and delighting in friendships and talking to family and exploring and dreaming and laying in the grass.

Time is the most fascinating vacuum. Humans are the most deliciously adaptable. We are all resilient, more so than we can imagine. And today? I’m feeling grateful. I’m also feeling ready for a spritz in the sunshine in a summer dress, but I’m (going to have to be) willing to be patient until May.