A Return of Sorts Time with family was nice, but the circumstances just wouldn't let us feel normal. Maybe that's not really a thing anymore.
Urban Ideation I would imagine myself hanging out on fire escapes and on water rooftop water towers. New York dominates the public imagination; it's an ur-city, a platonic ideal of the urban.
Middle Ground Your work self is not your public self, but neither is it as unconstructed as the self you project at home. And there is comfort in that; comfort that comes from sharing that level of friendship in the middle ground.
Nostalgia Back in the Before Times, drifting from downtown coffee shops to bookstores or breweries was fairly typical way for us to spend a Sunday afternoon but our world hasn't looked like that for a while.