COUNTERCLAIM REVIEW – Issue 2: Time
2022

There was a time in the pandemic when many of us were home exclusively, and the nuance of domestic life amplified. Most notably for me was a host of sparrows outside my window. At sunrise, they’d gather in the bamboo around my apartment and shriek in unanimous song. I’d never noticed them before when I was trying to get out of the house for work; they’d become an expected detail in the background of my day like the percolator chugging, but when my world got smaller, they got louder. The dawn chorus was miraculous. Encompassing. The hum of everything as one. Yogis call this OM: the unification of time, reality, and consciousness within a single sound.

Read the rest of my essay about the pandemic, loneliness, and possibility here.