Meditations in an Emergency

Meditations in an Emergency

Crowds

Messy, messy humans

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Rosecrans Baldwin
Jun 05, 2021
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“The Wedding Dance” (1566), Pieter Bruegel the Elder

My current fantasy is a nasty, sweaty dance party, one that starts at three a.m. and runs through dawn, me and a hundred people I’ve never met jumping around to a sound system that drills through the walls.

I didn’t always like crowds. In my twenties, I told people I didn’t like to be in large groups, …

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