There’s a “Peanuts” cartoon panel that might make you smile or—thanks to our ongoing struggle with social isolation—even cry a little. Creator Charles Schulz’s famous hero, Charlie Brown, is lying in a puffy beanbag-type seat with a thought above his head: “Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.”
Everyone knows how the pandemic created social absence and locked us away from loved ones, limiting our contact to a digital facsimile.
In most places, peoples are back to visiting in person. Many are going to the library, the movies, and even to one of their most important social environments: the workplace….