Author Archives: khzrt

Have you ever thought of Midnight as a threshold? As a momentary bridge even, that connects yet separates one day from the next?  Once you cross that bridge, once your second foot passes that threshold, you are locked out of the previous day forever. Today instantly becomes yesterday. Tomorrow becomes today.  And Midnight decides exactly when. Midnight: it isContinue reading “Day 20”

Balconies are a peculiar dilemma. When inside, you cast a glance outside and see two armchairs flanking a table; what an inviting sight. But if the weather is not right, then that balcony remains solely an inaccessible temptation.  Too cloudy?  You’ll get cold.  Too sunny? You’ll get hot.  Either way, you’ll end up forcing yourself to enjoy the pleasance of aContinue reading “Day 19”

Staying at home is one thing.  Staying at home when it’s beautiful weather outside is totally another. And especially after a day when everything that possibly could have gone wrong has in fact gone wrong, the one thing you want to do once you’ve had breakfast and gathered your appearance to some semblance of normalcy isContinue reading “Day 18”

I call my insurance provider to submit an address-change request. I hear rushing water in the background; maybe someone is doing the dishes or taking a shower, I think to myself. The agent on the other line asks me how I’m weathering the current situation; I offer my signature line: as long as we’re healthy,Continue reading “Day 17”

For as long as I can remember (which is probably not as long as I imagine it to be but still long enough), I have been led by the following words in thinking about the future: If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. Surely these are not the only words that I amContinue reading “Day 16”

The day starts in darkness. It is morning, 6:30am, so yells my phone.  But lying flat on my stomach with my head tilted to the left and one cheek still pressed against my flattened pillow, my pupils make a feeble attempt to peep from under my still-heavy eyelids in search of proof of what my alarmContinue reading “Day 15”

/Continued from Day 13/ I remember it’s Friday. “I feel like working out, Aid.” Fridays are for working out, no? “You want to go on a hike?” she offers. I accept. What better way to spend Friday evening during quarantine? We decide to leave our cell phones at home, understanding that we are sacrificing gainingContinue reading “Day 14”

At around 1:00pm in the afternoon, I grab my backpack and decide to walk the 15 minutes or so that it will take me to get to my office by foot. It’s still the month of March, the lockdown has just been declared, and the streets are empty. The engine of an unseen motor vehicleContinue reading “Day 13”

At the beginning of this year, could we have imagined that only a few months in, the world would be like this? But let me also ask you this: today, can we imagine what the world will look like at the end of this year?  When all this passes, will the world be the same again?Continue reading “Day 12”

Piercing through my head as if needles of ice, my phone bellows under my ear with my most hated sound on the planet: my iPhone alarm. It takes me a moment to remember why I had set the alarm so early. The sound of rain throwing itself on the wet asphalt helps me come toContinue reading “Day 11”