On Restarting: Time on the Clock, Time of the Mind and Micro-Rituals

Colin Dickey
6 min readMar 30, 2021
Covid-19 Memorial, Brooklyn, NY.

So this is how the world is beginning again: not with a bang, but with a series of whimpers.

Like everyone, I’ve been trying to imagine what will constitute whatever the “new normal” will be, and trying to figure out when it’s going to get here. What I realized I’ve been wanting, and what will never come, is some Morgan Freeman-esque President of…

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Colin Dickey

Failed histories, histories of failure. Author of four books: The Unidentified, Ghostland, Afterlives of the Saints, and Cranioklepty.