The Old Normal And The New

 Most weeks we get a food delivery from one of the big supermarkets. This week Ailz went with Waitrose- which is a novelty- and for the first time since Covid we had a delivery man who didn't just hand over at the doorstep but carried his boxes through to the kitchen. I told him how impressed I was and he seemed surprised- as though he'd never known any different.

I thought, "Finally things have returned to normal" but, of course they haven't. Since Covid the world has changed- but this was an odd little flash of how things used to be.

Talking about how the world has changed- but in a different register- I notice that journalists are using the term "Civil War" to describe what is going on in L.A.- where anti-ICE activists are now facing off against the Marines.....