Bookends

Since the COVID outbreak and in the years following, time seemed to move differently.  I would say things like, the other day – and I really meant several weeks ago.  Likewise, I struggled to place things cleanly on my mental timeline – like did my daughter play in a certain lacrosse tournament two summers ago or was it three.  In conversations that I have had with friends, the pandemic has impacted others in the same way.

 

My son, Nate, now a senior in high school, just returned from spring training with his high school baseball team at Dodgertown in Vero Beach on Thursday.  As I was waiting to pick him up at Logan, I realized that it was four years ago that I was in Vero Beach, picking him up from spring training, that year with his Cardigan Mountain School team.  It was on that trip – Thursday, March 12, 2020, that a number of sporting events, like March Madness and The Players Championship were cancelled, and in my mind, was when I realized that COVID was going to be a very big deal.

 

Clearly, COVID was a really big deal and unlike other events that float on my personal COVID timeline, my son’s spring training at Dodgertown was a clear maker of the beginning of major alterations to life.  Now, four years later, Nate is safely back from Dodgertown, Logan was packed with people and the CDC has removed almost all COVID related protocols.  While my personal time-line during the COVID years might never be fully accurate, it looks as if my son’s spring training trips will serve as bookends for the pandemic.

 

At least I hope so!

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