I’m going back to work today.
   A new role and new location with the same company, but it is a setting I’ve been absent from for some time.
   It’s been a while since I’ve rubbed shoulders with colleagues, and I know it will be different.
   Everything is different now than it was a few years back.
   We have masks and physical distancing and personal protocols in place that you had to think less about when you were working behind a screen.
   This morning I will be back in an office setting. I will be interacting, face-to-face, with people.
   This will be an integration process.
   Though anxious, I welcome the change; I look forward to some sense of a return to normal.
   But how normal will it feel?
   COVID-19 has changed the way we live, and the way we work.
   I guess today I will see how much…

12/06/2021                                               j.g.l.