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As the vaccines begin to roll in, so does the hope of going back to normal. It’s not the bright, expectant kind of hope, but of the weary, nervous type; not only because we’ve started to forget what our previous definitions of normal were, but also because on another level, we know it’s not the same reality we’re heading back to. Concern burns through the international subconscious in each private language, seeming to have its focus on assessing the damage and wondering how drastically altered we’ll find each of our national landscapes once the smoke clears. Destructive and devastating, this pandemic has left behind a lot of darkness; the best we can do to have any semblance of control over the dark is to try to collect the sparks.