The week of 5/25
Perhaps the most difficult part of this week, on a personal level, was being “back at the office.” “Distracted” isn’t quite the word. It was more a partitioning of my psyche into two equally necessary, asymmetrically important, and overlapping halves.
I wrote something a while back – a pretty sad piece, actually – where I recalled thinking America was the capital of the world. No one had told me so. I hadn’t read it in a book or heard it in a song or anything.… Read the rest