This is my mom, I call her mama. We used to go for walks and if it felt like a special day -although that was rarely the case during the same orderly days of quarantine- we would go get coffee. Now, like they like to say, "the world is back", and here we are, my mother and I drinking coffee together once again. The shadow of a struggling time is slowly backing away, and the emerging light lets us see the world afresh.