Do you feel like life will never return to normal? Does the future seem like a dim, unending nightmare of isolation? Do you fear that the habits we have acquired will forever dampen the bright spontaneous spirit of social life? Does despair feel like the only realistic response to world conditions?

Today's podcast is a 25-minute one-take piece in which I range fairly widely, and in a very personal way, on how to maintain sanity through the pandemic. I decided to record it all of a piece, not stopping to use audio editing tools to cut or tighten, but just letting it roll, 25 minutes of me musing on this and that in a way that, I hope, will reach you in a personal way, as one friend talking to another. If this method seems to work, if it is not too embarrassing, or too diffuse and meandering, I may just adopt it as my permanent method. It would certainly save time! -- Me, out on the tightrope, trying not to look down. --CT

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