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Belonging brings you joy
“It’s addressed to the Trinko family!” she kept repeating, excitedly. “That’s us!”
I quizzically looked at her. I’d never seen someone so excited about a generically addressed envelope.
My wife helped me understand it. Our youngest, who we adopted through the foster care system, was just happy to see something that made her feel like she belonged. For some reason, that piece of marketing reminded her that she was one of us now.
We all want to belong to something. Most of us have families that will claim us. We work so hard to identify ourselves based on the groups we think describe us, whether it’s by political ideology, by our chosen professions or by our religious beliefs.
Reflections of a newly freed man
David Trinko Guest columnist
I’ve served my time. I’m no longer a menace to society or at least my immune system isn’t.
My wife, daughters and I have been locked inside the big house, or at least our house, without any in-person interactions with the general public. My wife tested positive for COVID-19, meaning the rest of us weren’t fit to mingle with society either. Luckily, no one else in our house ever showed symptoms.
Health officials dangle around terms like “quarantine,” but I’ll call it what it was: A prison sentence. For someone with no previous record, swallowing a 10-day house arrest was a little difficult. (We are grateful to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for commuting our quarantine sentence from 14 days to 10 days for asymptomatic people just in time for us to get new letters from the health department.)