Through the ups and downs of the pandemic, it's been hard for people to make true connections. Writer Chloe Schama reflects on what it really feels like to be close to someone through life's tough moments.
, entertain us. I crave silence and alone time—to reflect, read, use the toilet without someone banging on the door. When my husband tries to talk to me at the end of a long day, I sometimes shush him. Communication—in all its modern and blunt primitive forms—is not in short supply.: “If you’re on Mars and you have the most powerful telescope…you can find all the isolated people on planet Earth. But you couldn’t find the lonely people.” Edward Hopper knew it.
But for me, the pandemic had a strangely inverse effect. Without the ability to move throughout the city to attend events and wave across a room at people Ididn’t know, I had more time to spend with friends and acquaintances in my Brooklyn neighborhood.
My pandemic-precipitated neighborhood intimacies vanished, and I found myself bringing my kids to school amid a sea of unfamiliar faces.
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