Goodnight friends! Day one of trip number one, a small convention, and I’m nervous, excited and fearful energy vibrating against each other. Seeing friends I’ve missed for more than two years, feeling a buzz of earnest creative energy and an ambient blissed out positivity. Yet despite staff doing their best to take precautions, require attendees to be vaccinated, asking people to wear masks indoors and test before arriving &c, there seems to be a lax, blasé – or perhaps fatalistic – attitude about COVID safety from most attendees that I wasn’t quite prepared for. Perhaps I’m taking too foolish of a risk. Even besides my quavering emotions, just the packing, unpacking, moving around the hotel has worn me out for today.
Humid and greasily grey most of the day, a slow rolling boil of a day that finally sighed a hazy collapsing cloud of evening drizzle, trees emerald plumes of smoke in the hazy air. After that a brief blue twilight, criss-crossed by peach pink plane contrails, wind-combed out into wild manes.
May we find a sense of calm determination and drive to follow our path forward today!
