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While cleaning out some old email a few weeks ago, I stumbled upon some messages I’d sent to a confidant in 2020 and was taken aback by the depth of despair in my troubled musings.

It was one of those seasons where I’m glad it’s in the rearview mirror as it was a dark time for many. The COVID-19 pandemic was unnerving enough, but when you add in the summer riots, the contested presidential election that Fall, and all the ways social upheaval ensued around all of that, the nation and the world were convulsing. It struck me how quickly so many of us seem to have decided to move on from that time, preferring instead to forget the turmoil and purge the trauma from our collective memory to the extent it’s possible.

Adults may be able to compartmentalize that to some degree, but

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