The email...

1 February 2021: Last night I got the email, the one I have been waiting for since late December: I am getting my first dose of the vaccine on Friday. How to describe this feeling? It is surreal. Combine that with deep relief. A touch of quiet giddiness. A lightness. Gratitude. Luckiness. And, because I am me, a nagging if small sense of guilt that so many are still waiting. 

Someone posted this Mary Oliver poem on Twitter today. It connects, I think, to some of my Big Thoughts today, which is also a snow day (no classes). 

"We Shake with Joy"

We shake with joy, we shake with grief

What a time they have, these two

housed as they are, in the same body.