Letting the Cat out of the Box

It is easy to pity Schrodinger’s cat... trapped in cosmic purgatory, just waiting in the dark box, dead and alive until our grubby hands pull back the lid. And if the story stopped there, the moment before the reveal would be like the ultimate movie cliffhanger - complete with familiar unsatisfying feeling when the story still has frayed ends. Unresolved. Untidy. That is what my life is like right now. ​I'm living the paradox of Schrodinger's cat and like a quantum particle that doesn't exist in one state or another, but in all of its possible states at once, I'm simultaneously living a beginning and an ending. 

Let me explain.

​On my third stop on my working sabbatical, there was supposed to be a second phase after Santiago. I was slated to run the program in Lithuania which equated to another four months of work. But, seemingly overnight, things took a hard-left turn when the partners decided to cancel the summer program to do a wise and necessary re-boot instead of forcing it. While the end of sabbatical was looming on the horizon for September, it came screeching to the forefront. I was suddenly out of work, scheduled to fly to Europe the very next day to work remotely before the program launch in Lithuania. Instead, I now looks like I'll be taking the longest route home from Santiago: Sao Paulo, Ericeira, London, Halifax, and then Vancouver.

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