Some Semblance

I must be honest.

I was devastated and unprepared when it happened.

I remembered when it occurred once before, many, many years ago. However, I believed then there was a valid reason.

I had recently given birth to my third child. The pregnancy had been my third within nine years. Admittedly overweight, I was weary, and feeling more than a bit overworked..

Accidentally encountering an old friend who knew me “when.” I immediately knew she did not recognize me. I hurried home in tears to locate the next Weight Watchers meeting.

That was a well deserved shock, and I lost the twenty lbs within three months.

Today, however, well, I have been using my bike for an hour daily, and we do see each constantly.

What could have happened overnight?

I don’t know, but apparently, something has.

Because.........

My Apple Ipad Pro could not recognize my face.

The device has been my constant companion throughout the seemingly endless long days and nights of isolation.

It accompanied me on a Christmas trip to California. I introduced it to my west coast family.

And now today it doesn’t recognize me.

Have I altered overnight? Have the “Stephen King” dreams caused my hair to turn white since I last checked my email?

Well, while I await impatiently for Apple support to return my emergency phone call, I am retrieving the brushes, wands, jars and tubes of makeup abandoned when Covid 19 arrived.

I hope I still have a tortoise shell hair clip somewhere that may help with a chignon. Perhaps then I may be recognizable once again.

Meanwhile I believe I have learned another lesson and must admit the somewhat unrecognized luxury aspects of isolation have ended.

It is obviously time for me to re-emerge with some semblance of dignity.