2021: Learning to Fly

“Don’t be the butterfly that dies in its chrysalis.”

I wrote the article noted below in May 2020, a couple of months after the official declaration of the Covid pandemic, when we were all thrown into an enforced contemplation of our lives:

In my interpretation, the adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, holding a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself, the ever-present set of opportunities at the boundaries of our reach. Ultimately, the strange and…