A Time Capsule for 2020
What would you put in your time capsule for the pandemic?
A time capsule for 2020 starts with a face mask. N95, surgical, cloth, bandana…
Bandanas always remind me of a skit from summer camp. Clustered by cabins, we sit with our group on the grassy knoll rather than the splintery and hard benches which make ten minutes feel like forever. On skit night, counselors and brave campers take to the wooden-planks on the stage of the amphitheater. The backdrop is a curtain of velvety deep blue sea. Camp is rich in skit tradition and this skit is a tried-and-true favorite; invariably, it gets performed every year. It starts when a counselor, wearing khaki shorts, hammers onstage with thick-soled, lace-up hiking boots, then stumbles and pretends to be a sweaty, over-heated, hiker. The couselor, while doubled-over and heaving, asks in their best out-of-breath voice to be handed a moistened bandana. They clearly need to cool down with a refreshing towelette. The goofy, sidekick companion bungles up from behind, but they hear ‘banana’ instead. The pal is confused and makes kooky hand gestors and expessions and tries to get clarification from the exhausted hiking partner, but is told, in an exhasperated, lispy voice, to hand over a “BANANA!” Dutifully, the buddy pulls a banana out from the backpack. They flatten and moisten it using the last of the…
