It's the same thing every day...

Good thing we love one another

With schools starting all over the country (they start slightly later, here in Connecticut) and positivity rate of COVID spiking, and we learn more about the awful Delta variant, I get a sagging feeling that we are — irony of ironies — re-entering “Groundhog Day,” a 1993 movie that enjoyed a strange kind of traction even before this we-can’t-quit-you-pandemic.

Surely you’ve seen the movie, but just in case (from Rotten Tomatoes), the synopsis is:

Phil (Bill Murray), a weatherman, is out to cover the annual emergence of the groundhog from its hole. He gets caught in a blizzard that he didn't predict and finds himself trapped in a time warp. He is doomed to relive the same day over and over again until he gets it right.

(Here’s Murray talking about the movie — sort of — on “Late Night With David Letterman.”)

The difference between reel life and real life is we haven’t yet taken the opportunity to get it right. So, in my own effort to get it right:

• I will return to wearing a mask in public, though I’m fully vaccinated.

• I will go back to limiting my time in public spaces, though I’m fully vaccinated.

• In fact, I will observe many of the pandemic protocols from last year, not because I want to (I really, really don’t), but because this movie has lost its charm.

Good thing we love one another. That will make all this a lot easier.