Imagine having a nonsensical argument with someone. Really try to make-believe this scenario, as we have so few opportunities to experience this in daily life.
If the debaters are polite or very tired, the discussion may end with something like:
“It is what it is.”
I wrote this essay after my first official post-pandemic, fully vaccinated trip in June 2021. My aim was to capture the confusion and humanity of that time. This essay was published in Scrawl Place in March 2022.
In 2012 I was working as a reporter for two small weekly newspapers when I received access to an invitation-only wild game feed, helding in the town of Corwith, Iowa (population: 266).
The hunters were a little wary of having a 23-year-old reporter bumbling around, but they treated me like a true guest. Even though I published one of their infamous quotes about “the worse thing I’ve ever had in my mouth.”