I Think We've Been Here Before

by Suzy Krause

When do you do something if now is too soon but there is no later?

For now, it’s ignorable, like an ant rushing along a sidewalk. For now, a person can turn the TV off and put their phone down, make a pot of coffee, look out the window at the sky, blue as a freezie pop, and think, Everything is normal and nothing is melting.

“You think things like this are going to change you into someone else, but generally they make you more of who you already are. That’s true of lots of things. Tragedies. Weddings. Ends of civilizations.”