Newnesses

We’ve arrived at the first year I thought comically far away when I was a child. It’s less funny now. When I was a child, we had the threat of nuclear winter, but believed nobody mad enough to trigger it. Now, I’m not so sure.

When I was a kid, we learned that the dinosaurs went extinct most likely due to a meteor strike and subsequent cloud which unsettled the balance of the food supply. This morning, I find myself wondering what effect bushfire smoke will have.

When I was little, I thought that love was grand gestures and simple. From my current vantage, I now understand that it is instead a constellation of little things and anything but.

The old things never stop being new, and in this year of a meaningless milestone birthday, I hope we all make ourselves new and find a way to embrace the newnesses slipping through the cracks of the creeping darkness.