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February 21, 2021
February 21, 2021
Having anxiety is like homeschooling a petulant child. My schedule is built around meditation and yoga, medication and therapy; the day’s gaps are occupied by psychiatric babysitting. Still, it occurs to me now and then that I have no idea what anxiety even is. My idea of it is just the sum of its effects. But sometimes I’ll write a totally bullshit essay for a class and accidentally understand the material by the time I’m through with it, you know? So here goes.
In the foyer of my home hangs the first painting in a triptych by John Hilling documenting the burning of Old South Church in Bath, Maine. The two subsequent panels the burning and its aftermath hang elsewhere, in faraway homes. Viewed in isolation, our pre-fire panel is banal: man and wife walk peacefully before an unassuming church. But when considered in light of its successors, the apparent mundanity is actually drenched in anticipation. It’s not the calm before the storm,