December 21, 2020
We don’t need to tell you how tough 2020 has been and yet, it would seem flippant if we didn’t address the elephant in the room that has re-established how we process time, handle grief and nurture relationships. Aside from being a decent human being, wearing your mask and adhering to social distancing rules, there’s no right way to handle what was, in all senses of the word, a devastating year.
The majority of us spent 2020 just trying to get by to entertain ourselves and keep us from crawling up the walls. In my own small orbit, the idea of buying a villa in Italy was (jokingly… kind of) tossed around. In that same hive mind group chat, we built a sprawling, 46-hour playlist named “Quaranteamed” based on daily prompts such as the best closer to an album, best song with a sad club vibes, and best movie music moment that will give us the perfect score to our inevitable, earned road trip. I bought