2000 | Dec 8th 2021

The hush talks about ordinary things.

In the spring of 2000, they called off school for an entire week and it wasn’t even snowing. It wasn’t a holiday or a grief period and I had never known a freedom like it. We biked around our neighborhood when we should have been learning math and the wind, it felt different. I got to peek behind the curtain of day. As children, we know not what the rad…