It was a tough year.
A pandemic. Wildfires. Protests.
Life changed for all of us in 2020 In an unprecedented year, the world faced a threat that upended life as we knew it. Heroes emerged. Leaders fumbled. Cultures clashed.
These are not those stories.
These are the stories of ordinary people living in extraordinary times: nurses, teachers, parents, children. Stories that show what it was like to work on the COVID response unit; to watch your favorite hiking trail be consumed by flames; to walk in the rubble of a catastrophic explosion.
Hindsight is a collection of untold stories written by everyday people — nurses, doctors, teachers, students, artists — a time capsule of 2020 that bears witness to tragedy and the heart of humanity.
Excerpts
“My mother had died five years ago. I knew I’d feel her absence when I was holding my daughter in my arms, but now her lack was sharp and frightening. No one in our locked-down household knew what we were doing. We didn’t know what it meant when she sighed or moaned or cried, we didn’t know how to hold her or feed her. I remembered the breathless, awestruck feeling I had when I first took the test and saw the faint blue line and felt suddenly responsible for a life. She needed me, and the world was falling apart.”
— Blair Hurley, “Postpartum”