When the pandemic struck, I went to the woods. The world and its problems faded away, became a persistent rumor. Is it really out there? I’ve become a local. And more months will rush by, before the vaccines will downgrade the virus to just another infectious disease, that might kill me, and I can travel again.

One month ago things changed in just four days. Well, they change all the time, in steps so tiny and insignificant, that I normally do not notice. This time it was different.

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