By the time you’re reading this on Saturday, I’ll be enjoying something I haven’t experienced in a while: a visitor!
Throughout the pandemic, our socializing has either been distanced or nonexistent altogether. But now with vaccines, it’s possible for people to see each other more easily and even travel to do so (based on your own comfort level, of course).Â
That’s why I’m so excited to be able to open my home to my vaccinated loved ones and embrace them again after so much distance.Â
Seeing friends and family not only brings joy in the moment, but it also allows us to make new, shared memories – something that mostly happened through Zoom parties or commiserating phone calls last year.Â
Now with more freedom in being together safely, we can make memories in real life with quality meal times and game nights. That sounds so normal in the best way, right?
my colleague Alia E. Dastagir writes. Daily experiences of awe, they argue, should be a regular part of the way we engage with the world.  here.
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Meet Cash.
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