Where the kitchen sprouts a laptop

Chocolate pie makes everything better
London, ON
March 2020
This photo originally shared on Instagram

When all this is over and we're looking at this period in history in the rear-view, I want pictures of what it all looked like. Because pictures remind me what it felt like at the time. And I don't want to forget what any of this felt like.

With the exception of the young lady in the background, there isn't anything extraordinary in this scene. Technology strewn about our kitchen table as I write for work through the weekend is hardly the stuff of photographic dreams.

But that's exactly the point. Whatever we're calling it today - social distancing, self-isolating, quarantining, battening down the hatches, extreme cocooning, full-contact pie-eating - there's no denying how unique a moment in time this is.

So when a flash of an idea to capture my ad hoc kitchen workspace until I can move all of my monitors and equipment home from the office turned into a fun moment with our daughter, I knew I wanted - nay, needed - to remember this.

Dahlia is like that; always making moments you want to hold onto. And whoever now surrounds you as you ride out this period in history, please never forget why we must consciously hold on as much as we can.

Connecting may look different now, but it is, ultimately, a hidden blessing that we have this together-time at home, and one we should embrace.

Pandemic notwithstanding, this is what makes life as rich as it is. It is as important now as it's ever been.

More to come...

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