As I emerge from the cloud of constant pain and attention to my cracked rib, I find that the world has changed in my absence.
It's only been two and a half weeks cloistered from the society, but there have been more staff changes at my library in that brief time than there has been all together for years. So many people have left in this period, and yet it's strangely hard to feel their absence.
I don't miss anything right now.
The weather has grown unstable, with storms rushing terribly in and raging. Then it's beautiful out. Then it's hot and muggy. Young people show up and they're old. Miraculous inventions appear but no one knows what to do with them. Rabbits are everywhere, but somehow they have improved. Small children walk by and the same exact things happen over and over, but they are slightly different.
And surely that can't be.
And here I am at the front desk of the library again.
I don't know what happened.
I think I just got younger.
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