Well. How are you? Are you hanging in there? “Hanging in there” is what we seem as a society to be using as the answer to “How are you?” right now. Because “fine,” while we all realize it was always meant to be an automatic call-and-response answer and not the real truth, sounds very weird when we all know perfectly well that no one is fine. “Hanging in there” feels more right. I have also used “We are all still well,” using tone to indicate that I only mean physically.<\/p>\n
I have been attempting to do four or five posts a week, to take my mind off things and give me something productive to do. But this morning I woke up at 2:30 and couldn’t get back to sleep because of fruitless fretting, so my mind feels too fuzzy to work on something as important as names. Let’s take a day off from that and just get some coffee and update each other on how we’re doing. Are you still well?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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